Army Band Not Allowed To Play Holiday Music At Christmas Show By Fox News Because Event Is Religious

Daily Mail ^ | 11/18/16 | KALHAN ROSENBLATT

[Enlightened1]

• Todd Starnes penned an article for Fox News saying he asked an Army band to play as a part of his annual Fox Radio Christmas show
• Starnes said he asked U.S. Army’s Six-String Soldiers to perform at event
• The band turned him down because the show is a 'religious event' 
• Starnes said the Army should be able to play his show regardless of religious affiliation and blamed the Obama administration 
• Others said they believe a Trump presidency will be less politically correct 

A Fox News Corner of the World host has expressed outrage after an Army band said it would be unable to play at his Fox Radio Christmas show because the event is religious. 

In an article for Fox News, Todd Starnes explains how every year he hosts a two-hour Christmas extravaganza in Memphis, which features guest performers, celebrities, a full orchestra and the Bellevue Baptist Church Singing Christmas Tree

The conservative radio host says the event is a family-friendly celebration of Christmas and includes a salute to families and the military. 

Because of this, he hoped to book the U.S. Army’s Six-String Soldiers to perform.

'I just knew they would bring down the house with their guitars, banjo and mandolin – especially knowing that our audience loves the military,' Starnes wrote.  

The Army didn't give him a commitment but he said they sounded excited about the opportunity. 

[Enlightened1]

It's freedom "OF" religion and NOT freedom "FROM'....

[libh8er]

All this is going to change..soon, once the tinpot thug african muslim is booted out of the WH.

[butlerweave]

and the Book Burning will start next week

[SkyDancer]

I’ll bet they have their Christmas parties though. FOX News Just joined the MSMLSD group.

[Grampa Dave]

Trump will remove the perfumed princes/princesses and princeits from any power in our military.

This crap will go the way of the passenger pigeon.

Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct | Audubon
www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct

About September 1, 1914, the last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoo. She was roughly 29 years old, with a palsy that made her tremble. Not once in her life had she laid a fertile egg. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon’s extinction.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Read it again. The culprit here is the Army, not Fox News.

[OwenKellogg]

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks. This will be coming soon to our military bases here and around the world.

[OwenKellogg]

I said “Merry Christmas” upon arriving at work last week (on a Marine Corps Base).

I have been saying “Happy Thanksgiving” all day today.

It is definitely “Morning in America!”

[SkyDancer]

The words “By Fox news” all in one sentence implies that Fox news is denying the band; it should have read “As Reported By Fox News”

[GailA]

[Amendment10]

Although some scrubbing has been going on, imo, with the fact that President Thomas Jefferson had permitted the Marine band to perform at Church services, the following page also indicates that congregations were also allowed to use government buildings for Church services.

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

• Hymns Played at Congressional Church Service (same page)

[LoveUSA]

Anyone have a link to the military band that performed a flash mob of Jesus Joy of Man’s Desiring at the Smithsonian?

[Grampa Dave]

Good for you, and it must feel very good.

I have been flying my made in America Flag every day since Trump was declared president elite. It has felt good.

I stopped flying it 8 years ago when Obozo was elected.

[stylin19a]

Hope Trump changes all of this.

[antidisestablishment]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKE8pyfcZc

[CriticalJ]

Stopped watching Fox News years ago.

It’s the Manchurian news network.

[bgill]

We won’t have to worry with this Christmas 2017.

[ColdSteelTalon]

“Jingle Bells” Is a song that’s going to get worn out by the Army band early this season...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Agree...authors and headline writers are getting worse all the time.