What a glorious idea...I think that a massive, grassroots protest is precisely what the ACLU-types fear the most.
Posted on 12/02/2004 12:10:30 AM PST by Stoat
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MY CHRISTMAS CRUSADE
By Michelle Malkin · December 02, 2004 02:36 AM
The persecution never ends. Denver has launched war against a church group that wanted to march in the city's
From the Denver Post: Parade Organizers Say Christmas Carols May Be Offensive To Others Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase "Merry Christmas" will be removed from the city building and replaced with "Happy Holidays."
I am hereby launching the Lump of Coal campaign. Later today, I will box up a lump of charcoal, mark the package "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and send it to the Denver Mayor in protest of his idiotic policy. Please join me in doing the same (and if you take a photo of your creatively designed package, I will link/post). Send to: Mayor John W. Hickenlooper |
What a glorious idea...I think that a massive, grassroots protest is precisely what the ACLU-types fear the most.
Boycotting the parade is the wrong thing to do. Don't sit on both hands because your offended. Offend the politically correct nutcases back by exercising your right to free speech and sing CHRISTmas carols and telling people Merry CHRISTmas.
Sounds like fun, but be careful of how people might react in these security-conscious times. I would hate for a Freeper to be arrested :-)
President Bush won re-election because 60 million of us said "This nonsense has got to stop". Now is not the time to sit on hands.
They may be able to stop government and public sponsor events
But then can't stop individuals from speaking .. or in this case singing
Remember the story of the football game where everyone in the stands took it upon themselves to say the Lord Prayer before the game
Well .. we should sing Christmas Carols
Sing It Loud and Sing it Proud!!
JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
That sounds just awful. Things like that do nothing but create opposition to this bald-faced social engineering garbage and PC insanity.
The good folks in Denver who are sick of this crap should call, mail, or deliver in person, their protests to this idiocy!
Now, I suppose Michelle is a second generation immigrant -- shows why we need smart, skilled, hard-working immigrants. We should make it clear to all -- you want to live in America, be willing to work and accept our (red-state) ethics. If you don't, then Canada or Mexico beckons -- vamos muchachos y muchachas
I would hate for a Freeper to be arrested :-)
You're right, I would much rather be out singing Christmas Carols!! :)
I could understand this crap happening in Boulder, but it's puzzling to say the least to see this happening in Denver. It's probably no surprise perhaps, since the Denver City Council is a bunch of Democrats. It came as no surprise to me to see Colorado become a swing state this year, particularly since Colorado has taken in quite a number of California transplants over the years, pushing their Socialist agenda down Colorado's throat.
Please be advised that I sent Michelle an email advising her that her Crusade has been Freeped, and that she will be getting lots of support for this worthy effort.
Please everybody check back with her blog regularly for updates on the Lump of Coal campaign, and please feel free to post any relevant info here as well.
Let's take back Christmas!
I'll be calling all my relatives in Denver in the morning, and asking them to make Merry Christmas signs to take to the parade!! I won't be up there until the 18th, but I'll ask them to take pictures, and I'll send them to her site, and post them here! ;)
Wonderful! Full steam ahead! Wooo Hooo!!
Spend your money elsewhere. The economy won't tank, the corporations will take notice.
The event planners will take notice when they only draw 10% and few children.
The left doesn't care "why" people go, so long as you are there. The more people they can claim "went" the more they can claim in the media and to superiors that their event was a "success".
Meanwhile, we can celebrate Christmas every day (Easter too!). Any time you want to take the opportunity to remember Jesus' birth or resurrection, you can. Try saying "Merry Christmas" to every stranger you meet, especially retailer. Every day. All year.
I honestly just love brothers like you who are willing to be the men God made instead of whiny wussies! Bravo!
People need to stand up and say that "freedom of religion" does not mean "freedom FROM religion".
In Singapore, which is not a "Christian" nation per se, they decorate the streets in bright lights and gaudy fake snow at Christmas time, and no one, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or atheist, has a problem with it.
If I happen to say "Merry Christmas" to a friend who is Buddhist, he doesn't get all bent out of shape about it. Why should he? He knows it's just a friendly greeting, and no offense is meant or taken.
Of course, Singaporeans say "Happy Chinese New Year" and "Happy Ramadan," and "Happy Deepavali" (it's a Hindu holiday) on the appropriate days as well. Each celebrates his own holidays and lets others celebrate theirs.
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