Posted on 10/23/2015 10:07:48 AM PDT by xzins
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledges that if elected, he restore the phrase “Merry Christmas” in every U.S. store. While the presidential candidate has not unveiled how he would do this, his declaration was met with cheers among evangelical supporters. Video below.
Trump touted his Christian beliefs at an Oct. 21 campaign rally in Burlington, Iowa, CNN reports.
“I will tell you I’m a good Christian,” says Trump. “I guarantee, if I become president, we’re gonna [sic] be saying Merry Christmas in every store… you can leave happy holidays at the corner.”
The business mogul was met with rapturous applause from Iowa voters. Trump added that it’s not a matter of excluding other religions, according to CNN.
“That’s not to knock anybody else, other religions can do what they want,” says Trump. “There’s room for everybody.”
One of the biggest anxieties among Christian conservatives around the country has been the nationwide toning down of religious undertones during Christmas festivities. Trump’s supporters say that they are attracted to Trump’s bullish refusal to be politically correct, CNN reports.
"He actually says what I want to hear and he's not worried about telling somebody or saying it in a way that doesn't sound real," Cynthia Forth, an Iowa voter, tells CNN. "I want to hear (it) straight. He'll give it to you straight."
Trump has been emphasizing his Christian values on the Iowa campaign trail this past week. A Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll shows retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson having overtaken Trump in the pivotal state. Carson currently has 28 percent of Iowa voters while Trump is lagging behind at 19 percent, The New York Times reports.
The survey shows that only 32 percent of Iowa voters are convinced that Trump is a good Christian while 62 percent believe that Carson is attractively a true believer. Trump has now taken to bringing a copy of the Bible to campaign events, according to The New York Times.
Festivus?
He’s talking about influence not legislation
the one that’s not really out of Africa
I was fine with it until the socialists and atheists (but I repeat myself) tried to make it hard law
The one started by that rabble-rousing thug.
kwanza sp.
Is Carson a vegetarian?
I can’t imagine voting for someone who doesn’t understand the power of bacon. :)
we have a winner!
I don’t know, but he definitely isn’t a baconist.
Meaning he is missing the world’s best sandwich, no exceptions,...the BLT.
No Christmas or Easter, no pork or shellfish, Pope is the Antichrist, etc., etc., etc.
I’m not sure about the pope, but no hell, no immediate presence in heaven after death, ie, soul sleep. Affectionately know as “dirt nap”.
Thank you! Traditionally conservative principles are a rarity around here as of late, so I'm glad to see that there are a few of us still left in these halls.
OK, then. Guess we won’t wish you ‘Happy Holidays’ this Winter Break.
j/k :)
On a serious note, Trump is right again. There has been a war on the term ‘Christmas’. It’s a covert war on Christianity, actually.
[Festivus?]
For me, it’s all about the aluminum pole and the Feats of Strength.
I’m partial to the Andy William’s version - though not the PC part.
lol
It may not be control, but the president can influence it making it socially acceptable to say Merry Christmas if one so chooses by doing it publicly and frequently himself.
If I owned a store I darn sure would not want anyone telling me what to say or when to say it.
Gotta remember... if Trump is president, and he makes people say Merry Christmas... then the next president also has that right.
No president, no government, nobody has the right to tell any American citizen what to say.
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