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According to a press statement from Liberty Counsel, residents at both the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts care facilities were subjected to policies and directives that prohibited the display of religious decorations such as Nativity scenes, menorahs, and crosses. At Bethany Towers in Mechanicsburg, says the statement, even angels were removed from a Christmas tree that had been erected in a common area.

This is unbelievable.

1 posted on 12/20/2005 5:10:02 PM PST by wagglebee
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Get ready ... our friendly neighborhood ACLU will soon step in on this issue, locked arm-in-arm with "Rev." Barry Lyn, and will declare such religious displays as unconstitutional.

Sarcasm>The inmates of our nation's nursing homes should not be forced to hear anyone singing Christmas Carols or see any religious symbols at all. Just because these activities are an expression of other inmates' First Amendment Rights is irrelevant ... the desire of a minority to not have to see or hear religious expressions trumps the wishes of the insensitive majority. Likewise, to ensure that there is strict Separation of Church and State, the Free Exercise of Religion must be PROHIBITED. /Sarcasm


2 posted on 12/20/2005 5:23:29 PM PST by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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To: Salvation; NYer; Coleus; sionnsar; TonyRo76; little jeremiah

Ping.


3 posted on 12/20/2005 5:25:57 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
war  on  christmas
 
christmas

4 posted on 12/20/2005 6:51:17 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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Senior citizens in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts will now be able to celebrate Christmas, thanks to the intervention of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based law firm that specializes in religious liberties.

Separation of church and state bump.

5 posted on 12/20/2005 8:37:06 PM PST by A. Pole (Chimpanzees and men share 95 percent of their DNA. Species is a social construct!)
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"'Sometimes what we see [in these facilities] is our most vulnerable citizens being discriminated against, and the joy of Christmas being robbed from them,' he says."

Despicable!!!


6 posted on 12/20/2005 9:23:40 PM PST by victim soul
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