Christmas Under Attack Nationwide

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Christmas Under Attack Nationwide

Library officials in Meriden, Connecticut, have banned five paintings of Jesus by local artist Mary Morley. The library is allowing paintings of Moses, David and Goliath, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul II, and other religious figures but not Jesus.

According to Morley, library officials told her that paintings of Jesus "would cause too much upset and outcry. Isn't Jesus a historical figure?" The library says it can ban displays that are "inappropriate" or "offensive" to "any segment of the community."

Morley has contacted The Rutherford Institute to consider filing a lawsuit against the library for religious discrimination and violation of her freedom of speech.

More on this story is available here: Record-Journal.com

In Pennsylvania, a school district and parents are arguing over whether or not to ban all Christmas celebrations, including the singing of Christmas carols.

In Colorado, the ACLU has threatened to sue a school district over Christmas celebrations, including the singing of "Jingle Bells." The ACLU claims that Jewish students don't feel "safe or welcome" in the school when Christmas is celebrated.

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). According to ADF lawyer Barry Arrington, "This is the same old ACLU ploy of fear, intimidation and disinformation." The ADF has launched a Christmas Project that provides legal information for schools facing ACLU threats.

TVC has posted several links on this issue on our web site.

The attacks on Christmas are not limited to the ACLU. Corporations are now becoming "politically correct" and many are deleting any mention of Christmas in their advertising or stores. Instead, they are using words like "winter holiday" to describe the Christmas season.

In New York, public school officials are denying that Jesus was a real historical figure so they can ban Christmas!

A couple in Virginia recently started a web site to fight back against this anti-Christmas trend.

The GrinchList.com site describes what companies are becoming politically correct and lists those that are still promoting Christmas.

The mission of the site is to: expose [offending organizations] to the millions of consumers whose heritage is being expunged from the public cultural arena."

GrinchList founders Kirk and Amy McElwain, urge consumers to contact stores that have censored any mention of Christmas and to encourage corporations that have stood strong against the tide of political correctness.

[RightWhale]

Today we performed our Christmas concert at the retired folks home. Christmas carols, Frosty the Snowman, everything. Sounded darned good, and the old ones liked it. Merry Christmas!

[VOA]

The library is allowing paintings of Moses, David and Goliath,
Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul II,
and other religious figures but not Jesus.

(TEXOKIE, this was just so rich, I pinged you)

LOL! Painting of followers of Jesus, but not Jesus are allowed.
This would be like the members of a large company gathered in the wood-paneled
executive boardroom, lined with fine portraits of the company's mail room contract workers
and janitors...but not the founder of the company!

Once again these liberal morons fall into the truth-trap set by Jesus himself...
He IS an offense to many, just as he promised!!!

[arasina]

If Christianity were to be wiped out this very day...

Only if we let it. Plus, attempts at eradication over the centuries have been made and it's still alive. It may seem to have disappeared but it actually has just gone temporarily undergound.

[LiteKeeper]

Merry Christmas

[StormEye]

"... just wondering why Christians take such a beating,after all they are not
at war with anyone as ..."

Because Christians won't get organized, defend their culture and assert their constitutional rights.
They just keep voting in liberals who a determined to destroy every last vestige
of Christianity in America.

[VOA]

Why is it these same people do not forbid any Muslim displays. I have yet to see
the A.C.L.U. demand that Jews refrain from religious displays in public
( I am neither anti Muslim Or Jew)...

It's very simple and clear.
The ACLU is religiously (LOL!) following a part of their holy writings.
The situation you observe has arisen because their saint, Thomas Jefferson
mentioned something in a letter about a "separation of church and state".

Being lawyers (and much smarter than you and I), the ACLU realized that
Jefferson never said anything about a "separation of mosque/synagogue and state".

Yep, that's what the ACLU is doing when they aren't raising money by trying
to scare the crap out of people over John Ashcroft and the EEEVVVIIILLL Patriot Act or
reading their main scriptures in Das Kapital.

[knak]

Merry Christmas to all

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Have you heard Glen Beck's Happy Rama Hana Kwanzmas? It's hillarious - sung to the toon of Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. They beep out any time he says Christmas...

[Paul Atreides]

That's true. Any attempts to suppress Christianity, by force, would only make it stronger.

[tet68]

No more mama kissin' Santa Claus either. She might get herpes.



Don't forget little brother too.
Now the song goes, "I saw tommy kissing santa claus....".

[tet68]

JFK is a religious figure?

I mean, I knew a lot of dems pray to the picture they keep on the mantle and some seem to get results but really.

I'm sure Hillery! doesn't have one of those, it' probably a picture of Stalin...

[SAMWolf]

Have a Happy RamaHanaKwanzmas!

[Texas_Jarhead]

bttt

[mlmr]

The library says it can ban displays that are "inappropriate" or "offensive" to "any segment of the community."


Perhaps it is time to become "Offended" at the neglect of teh true story of Christmas at the library display. Most people who are confronted with their own words thrown back at them this way are clueless and sometimes they even have a brain wave.

[Eccl 10:2]

"However, Congress passed a law making Christmas a national holiday"

Congress passed a law creating income taxes, too. That don't make it right.

[4integrity]

'....wondering why Christians take such a beating...'

Perhaps because Christians often turn the other cheek or are too polite or just don't have the courage to confront their offenders. But, last time I looked, Christians have rights too and it's time Christians begin to stand up for those rights. On O'Reilly's show, Mark Green of NY said it was ok to display Jewish Star and Muslim Crescent but not the Nativity scene. It's amazing that, so called, intelligent people can make these type of statements with a straight face!

[ClancyJ]

Exclusionary? Do these offended left-out people not get any Christmas presents? Do they not attend the Christmas parties? If they do get presents, bonuses and attend the parties, WHY?

Shouldn't they not get presents, since they do not want Christmas. Shouldn't they not get the bonuses - since they are excluded because of Christmas? Shouldn't they be the ones working on Christmas since they are surely left out of all parties?

[Papabear47]

Actually Jefferson was referring to a state sanctioned or mandated religion such as England had at the time. And thank you for the A.C.L.U. Muslim/Synagogue line,I will remember it.

[Jotmo]

Outstanding!

Mind If I steal it and distribute it to my friends?

I'll give you credit if you want.

[Paul Atreides]

Let's put it this way: in the religious sense, Christmas is celebrated by people who at least believe in Christ, or recognize that there are people who believe in Christ. Now, the people whom you mentioned, are included in the secular aspects of Christmas (Santa, gift-giving, etc.). However, it is true that the secular part of Christmas is very inclusionary.