Posted on 12/21/2004 8:36:57 PM PST by churchillbuff
Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on some disturbing responses to Christmas:
“In San Francisco, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a band of characters the Los Angeles Times affectionately calls a group of ‘queer nuns,’ has been bashing Christmas all month. In Minneapolis, gay-themed Christmas bashing has been happening at the Hennepin Center for the Arts and the Brave New Workshop. To understand why this is going on, consider what one New Hampshire non-Christian said when asked about Christmas celebrations in the schools: ‘It’s offensive to those who don’t celebrate it.’ Better yet is Phil Goodstein, a Denver historian who recently labeled the nativity scene ‘utterly obnoxious.’ Julie Wells, also of Denver, confesses that ‘I wish they had kidnapped the Baby Jesus when they kidnapped Rudolph,’ adding that she fantasizes about ‘driving a Chevy Blazer’ over a crèche. And both atheist Christopher Hitchens (always the contrarian), and Dallas Cowboy fullback Darian Barnes, boasted over the weekend how much they ‘hate Christmas.’
“One of the most offensive incidents this Christmas season occurred recently in Plainfield, Illinois, outside of Chicago. At Central School, a song called ‘I Hate This Holiday’ was listed in the holiday concert program. The song, which is really a parody from the choral ‘Frosty’s First Adventure,’ was taken by school bus driver Carmen Brown as a real slap in the face at Christians; she called for a boycott of the concert. In stepped Linda DiLeo, the school’s principal. She, too, thought the song was meant to offend, but nonetheless justified it: ‘We have Jewish children, we have children who celebrated Ramadan a couple of weeks ago. We take into account that we aren’t all celebrating the same holiday and try to put on programs that everyone can celebrate.’
“In other words, DiLeo thinks it is necessary to bash Christians at Christmastime because Jews and Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas. This is rank bigotry—against all three religious groups—and that is why we are making a formal complaint to the Illinois State Board of Education.”
What credentials do you offer?
Attitude, integrety and energy. Plus I live 45 minutes from "The Beltway" ...
If he needs outrageous examples, there are plenty to choose from. If you had been reading the papers you would know this.
No, he needs increasingly outrageous examples. Each one has to be worse than the one before.
And the papers are full of increasingly outrageous examples. The national elite was once Protestant and anti-Catholic. It is increasingly agnostic --and anti-Catholic. The dumb a---s who run the schools run scared because they don;t want to get sued and the lawyers they retain feed this fear inorder to justify their retainers.
Can't rub their elbows; they(elbows) are always bending from cocktails and ginger ales. Dee-Cee is a fun town!!
Why are we - Christians - the only group not allowed to celebrate our religion?
I've never been there myself, would love to see it though. Just hasn't been in my cards yet.
Plain and simple.
So far, we've not received a complaint.
If more people had the guts to express what they believe in God, and country, then America would be better off.
The Davis family is fed up with the ACLU and the left-wing SOBs that ry to dictate our right to the First Amendment and the rest of the PC weenies who are gutless wondders in the business world.
And I'm a 54 year old business man. All of our cards read "Merry Christmas" in one form or another, depending on the recipients. We even send Chricstmas cards to those whom we know are Jews.
Some folks should remember that Jesus Christ was a Jew.
Plain and simple.
So far, we've not received a complaint.
If more people had the guts to express what they believe in God, and country, then America would be better off.
The Davis family is fed up with the ACLU and the left-wing SOBs that ry to dictate our right to the First Amendment and the rest of the PC weenies who are gutless wondders in the business world.
And I'm a 54 year old business man. All of our cards read "Merry Christmas" in one form or another, depending on the recipients. We even send Chricstmas cards to those whom we know are Jews.
Some folks should remember that Jesus Christ was a Jew.
There are numerous reasons why. We can all talk the talk, but the game begins when we walk the walk.
Everyone who enters the publicity death spiral at some point steps over some unseen line. After that, it becomes a feeding frenzy...
It's well and truly time to walk the walk. They're going after us everywhere.
The whole point of "die-versity" is that they want to destroy our Western Culture.
That's what I have been saying on here tonight. We need to get serious and get together and stop this before we reach the point of no return.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Ping
I don't see anyone ripping down the star of David that some of my Jewish neighbors display during Hanukkah, and all through Christmas for that matter. Muslims celebrate (?) Ramadan, and nobody tears down their blood alters, nor stop them from making a pilgrimage to Mecca to kiss the black stone (Allah) their rock god. They can even kill a Christian or Jew along the way, yet not a peep out of the Gaia worshiping leftist moronic Gay loving crowd. But when a Christian wishes to celebrate Christmas, the day God took the flesh in order to deliver the new covenant, or rather, complete it, releasing us from everlasting sin, all the devils choir starts singing their hatred for the savior.
I think it's quite clear how afraid Satan is of loosing his war over our souls with God. More than ever, we have to save as many as possible before God fulfills his promise.
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