Posted on 12/02/2004 12:10:30 AM PST by Stoat
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 |
They will also take note when folks take back Christmas
Bring back the days of Christmas Caroling
Bring back Tis the Season to be Jolly
Can you just imagine having blocks and blocks of people singing Christmas Songs through out the Parade?
Like I said above
Sing it Loud and Sing it Proud!
I understand your idea of boycotting the parade, but by the time Friday early evening arrives I predict that there will be thousands and thousands more at the event with their 'Merry Christmas' signs and singing Christmas carols. We'll see. I'll be there with some friends.
There are two bills that have been introduced in the U.S. Congress, one in the House, HR3799, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.3799:
and one in the Senate, S2323.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2323:
Both of these bills are called the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004. These two bills were written by a team led by Chief Justice Roy Moore. These two bills will stop the federal courts, once and for all, from ruling on matters of religious expression in America. Displays of the Ten Commandments will once again be secure, prayer in schools will once again be enjoyed, and our religious freedoms will be returned to the people who rightfully own those freedomsus!
We should all write all congress and senators and demand they support them.
The Declaration of Independence declares, All men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable (God-given) rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that to secure those rights, governments are established among men, deriving their just powers (authority) from the consent of the governed. This covenant between America and God is on the verge of being meaningless, unless we stop the tyrannical federal courts that have worked for years to destroy those very rights and freedoms that made this nation great. Our government was established and given power for the express purpose of protecting the rights that were given to us by God, These lefty anti Christ want government to become god.
I have no idea, but I have some doggie doo doo I could package up!
Let's just bombard the Mayor with really Christian Christmas cards!! I'm game for that!
As a matter of fact, I HAVE a lump of coal. It is in a pretty, red, round can with a picture of Santa on the lid. He is looking in his book labled, "EXTRA Naughty Boys & Girls", Around the edge of his picture, it says "A LUMP OF COAL for all naughty boys & girls." It is about 3 1/2" in diameter, and not quite 1" deep. Inside is a piece of red tissue folded around several small lumps of coal.
On the back, it says, "Santa has decided that _________ has been very naughty this year." "from ____________.
It is from The Tin Box Co of America Inc.
We bought it for a special relative, but she moved, and didn't leave a forwarding address before we could send it.
This might be a good alternative use for it.
We may have found it at Spencer's Gifts, but I realy don't remember for sure.
PING! Action Needed! Bombard him with CHRISTMAS cards!
Another good Christmas Carol to sing
I am certainly no expert on Singaporean law, society or culture, but my understanding is that there is no comparable atheistic legal organization such as the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) operating in Singapore, which makes money and gains political power by engaging in a continual chipping away and degradation of traditional Singaporean culture. In the United States, the ACLU and other similar organizations have spent the past fifty years doing their utmost to remove every aspect of Christianity from American culture, and at the same time convincing many weak-minded Left-leaning Americans to support their destructive works. It is as a result of the efforts of these organizations that many Americans are now terrified to utter the words "Merry Christmas" because they risk "offending" some unnamed person. It is a truly horrible situation and Singaporeans can be very thankful that they (apparently ) do not have similar destructive forces operating in their beautiful country.
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.
That's because Singaporeans have not been conditioned, over the course of decades, to make efforts to excise Christianity from their lives and culture as so many Americans and American politicians have, because they have been terrified of lawsuits from the ACLU and similar organizations.
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.
Many Americans make a point of saying Merry Christmas, not only because it's the right thing to do but also because it now represents a 'slap' at the forces of Political Correctness, which in this case would be better described simply as 'enforced atheism'. It's true that many weak people on the Left become offended at every opportunity, but our nation has become sick of this stupidity and we are fighting back, more and more.
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.
Most Americans treat each other in the way that you describe also; the influence of groups such as the ACLU is declining and one day they will be irrelevant as a force in American life, politics and culture. Americans are, generally, very tired of having their lives and culture spoiled by atheists who care only for their own power and influence.
Sounds good, but including that lump of charcoal sends an important message also. A box or large envelope including both would be an awfully nice thing to send the Mayor, don't you think? :-)
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...no overtly religious symbols is allowed in the parade
I hate to sound like a liberal and say "sue them," but in this battle a good lawyer might be an effective tool. It sounds like groups are being excluded from a public forum just because they are of a religious nature. I think our side has been been winning most cases like that recently.
The exception might be if the parade is organized by a private group, which could mean they could determine what they want the message to be. Then our alternatives would be do protest their parade and/or organize our own.
The mayor does still need as many lumps of coal as possible.
A musical card would be ideal.
It would be very nice of Christians if they could come up with another place to spend their "winter holidays"--somewheere where Christ is accepted in a friendlier way. Any suggestions?
The only place we'll ever be truly accepted is heaven. While here on earth we must stand our ground. If we go elsewhere how long will it be before those who want to remove Jesus Christ from that place arrive with their ACLU lawyers in tow.
Stand your ground! It's a righteous cause and the right one!
HOLIDAY BLUES Christmastime event is no-Christian zone Santa, 'holy homosexuals' OK for parade, but no floats with direct religious themes Posted: December 2, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joe Kovacs
In the latest skirmish over Christmas in America, a Christian group is not allowed to participate in Denver's annual Parade of Lights, because church members sought to sing yuletide hymns and proclaim a "Merry Christmas" message on their float. However, the event, now in its 30th year, will include homosexual American Indians, Kung Fu artisans, belly dancers and, of course, Santa Claus. "I think there's an agenda that is anti-Christian," Pastor George Morrison, tells WorldNetDaily. "It seems like this agenda has crept in, and it's robbing us." Morrison heads the Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colo., among Denver's largest evangelical churches with over 4,000 attendees each week. The parade, slated for tomorrow and Saturday nights, is produced by Denver Civic Ventures, Inc., with heavy promotion by its flagship sponsor, KUSA-TV, the local NBC affiliate. The hour-long event features highly decorated floats with symbols of the holiday season such as Santa Claus, gingerbread houses and toy soldiers, along with what's billed as an "international procession to celebrate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the region," according to its website.
Among those allowed to participate is the Two Spirit Society of Denver, a support group for American Indians who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgendered, honoring them as "holy people." Also included are performers of the Lion Dance, a Chinese New Year tradition "meant to chase away evil spirits and welcome good luck and good fortune for the year," reports the Rocky Mountain News. Despite the inclusion of these groups with spiritual connotations, parade spokesman Michael Krikorian said the event does not allow "direct religious themes." Included in the ban are signs that read "Merry Christmas" and the singing or playing of Christmas hymns. "We want to avoid that specific religious message out of respect for other religions in the region," Krikorian told the News. "It could be construed as disrespectful to other people who enjoy a parade each year." He notes the church group was informed of the policy last spring when it first inquired about participation.
"I could not believe what I was hearing," Morrison told WND. "I was floored. I assumed it was a Christmas parade." Morrison says he attended last year's event and noticed a lack of any connection with Christianity, which sparked his interest to be included in the first place. "Maybe they should hold Parade of Lights in January or February," Morrison told the News. "By holding it in December, it's assumed by a majority of people that the reasons the lights are up is the continuation of the celebration of the birth of Christ. In America, that's our tradition, that's what the holiday is about." As WorldNetDaily previously reported, Christmas celebrations were actually banned by Christians who settled colonial America in the 17th and 18th centuries, as many felt the holiday was based more on paganism than Scripture. But celebrations grew in popularity during the 19th century, starting with Washington Irving's 1820 book "The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall." A week before Christmas in 1834, Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol," and in 1860, American illustrator Thomas Nast created Father Christmas, also known as Santa Claus, based on European stories of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children. In recent years, battles have ignited each winter across the U.S. as the public display of religion becomes a hot topic. The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, has been leading the charge in many instances to preclude expressions of faith in the public arena, though the group is not involved in the Denver parade. Recently, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, announced the phrase "Merry Christmas" would replaced at city hall next year with with "Happy Holidays." Catholic League president William Donohue issued a statement yesterday on this year's attempts to ban Christmas. "This is only the beginning of the Christmas season and already the anti-Christmas crusade is in high gear," he said. "In the name of 'separation of church and state,' they distort it. In the name of diversity, they crush it. In the name of tolerance, they obliterate it. Which is why we need to call them for what they are cultural fascists." As far as the Parade of Lights in Denver is concerned, Morrison says he has been contacted by several attorneys, but he's no longer interested in participating this weekend, as he would need time to prepare a proper entry. But he adds members of his church will be walking the parade route an hour before it starts. "We're going to sing Christmas carols to people on the street," he told WND. "We're not promoting a boycott." |
Merry Christmas!
Yet another reason to really really really like this woman.
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