Holidays Are Close & Trump Has Something To Say About CHRISTmas… No One Else Will Say It

Conservative Tribune ^ | 10/29/2015

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

The liberal left has notoriously attacked the saying “Merry Christmas” during the holidays and has fought to keep the saying out of public places, ostensibly so as not to offend atheists, Muslims and other non-Christians.

With the holiday season just around the corner, there will undoubtedly be more liberal attacks against Christians, and more retailers saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” The sacredness of Christmas will be further assaulted, but one political candidate, in particular, won’t give in to the left’s anti-Christmas campaign. Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, slammed the liberals’ “politically correct” agenda to dismantle the true meaning of the holiday season — the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The current GOP front-runner is a self-proclaimed Christian and, in an interview with Yellowhammer Radio, discussed his views on the Christian holiday.

“I go out of my way to use the word ‘Christmas,’” he said. “There’s an assault on anything having to do with Christianity.”

Trump is right. Liberals have attempted to distort the true meaning of Christmas and often take legal action to further their cause. Trump explained that department stores and other retailers won’t say “Merry Christmas” during the holidays anymore because “(t)here’s always lawsuits and unfortunately a lot of those lawsuits are won by the other side.”

“I will assault that,” Trump said. “I will go so strongly against so many things, when they take away the word, ‘Christmas.’”

[teeman8r]

And wishes for the merriest Hannukah to you and yours this year.

[billyboy15]

How can a retail store be sued for having signs which say Merry Christmas or playing Christmas Carols or for their employees saying Merry Christmas?

[SamAdams76]

When I went to school, we used to have Christmas pageants and would sing all the secular and non secular Christmas carols. We had Jewish kids in school with us to and everything was fine. We also had no problem wishing happy Hannukah and having those decorations around the school. Those were days of tolerance. Since the liberals took over, our public schools have become very intolerant.

[V K Lee]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Look forward to roasting some of those prized chest-nuts on that open fire.

One way to look at this...if many of your friends and family are libs, there is no need for last minute gift shopping, Christmas Card lists, or even a Christmas dinner. They keep this up and there will be few holidays to gather round the table. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter...if they don’t believe who are we to include them in our heritage and customs.

[theoldmarine]

Nice of you to pull your head out of the sand, or wherever, long enough to post that ignorant comment. There is a socialist establishment on Christmas, has been for decades now. Ok, now you can go back to sllep.

[V K Lee]

A Tradition

Holiday Inn= Thanksgiving
White Christmas= Christmas (before ‘A Christmas Story)

[napscoordinator]

Get over yourself. You take yourself to seriously if your little feelings are hurt over Target or some store not kissing you butt by saying Merry Christmas. You must have a big time ego or an inferiority complex. I could care less one way or the other. Time for you to grow up and become an adult.

[napscoordinator]

By the way, learn to spell you dumb ass.

[visualops]

I agree there is a serious assault against Christianity by the Left and by mohammedans. Interestingly, I looked at lots of old greeting cards and memorabilia from the turn of the century and earlier. I did not see a preponderance of Merry Christmas, in fact, season’s greetings and happy holidays were common. However it should be noted that references to God and prayer were common in everyday talk and in the public square. So there was no need to reinforce that at Christmas. Everyone knew the Reason for the Season. IMHO.

[MD Expat in PA]

I'm sorry but I think Trump's statement - "I'm a good Christian. If I become president, we're gonna be saying Merry Christmas at every store, every store, at every store, every store ... You can leave happy holidays at the corner." And of course as a "Good Christian", he follows up by saying, "I'm going to say Merry Christmas to whoever the Hell wants to hear it." is pure pandering IMO.

While I don't like the whole "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons Greetings" replacing "Merry Christmas" and the whole PC (Communist) strangulation of language and expression and of Christianity and of American culture and tradition, it is also not the President's job nor within his (or Congress's) Constitutionally proscribed duties to mandate what private companies use in their ads or instruct their employees to say or not say while on company time. And while on company time, is an important distinction.

But the big unanswered question is; so what exactly is Trump going to do in this respect? Sign some sort of Executive Order mandating that all stores; in their ads and that all their employees must say Merry Christmas? Will the phrase Happy Holidays be made illegal? Will companies be fined for using it? What government agency will Trump deem to enforce it? The DOL? The FCC? The IRS?

Will Trump force Jewish Kosher delis and grocery stores to put up signs in December saying "Merry Christmas" and force their employees to say it to all their Jewish and non-Jewish customers alike? What about the Buddhist run Yoga studio or the Wiccan bookstore, the Muslim grocery store? All stores? Really?

FWIW - Trump is also a bit of a hypocrite:

Maybe Trump will say "you're fired" to the person responsible or just blame it on an intern? / s

[Qiviut]

Just remember, Trump is a fake Christian. ROTF LMRO
It’s so funny to watch steam come out of the ears of his detractors.

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You know, I have said before that Donald Trump would be keeping his Bible a whole lot closer at hand if he were to be elected President. My gut feeling is that God is working through him .... Trump has already started to become a great ambassador for God & Christians. By doing this, he’s going to become stronger in his own faith .... I’m noticing a difference in him. Merry CHRISTmas, Mr. Trump .... and God bless.

[DoughtyOne]

I do agree with you. It is also my belief that we should attend church services regularly. Fellowship is important. You may be the exact contact at a church that another human needs to keep them connected.

I’m the last guy who should preach this message because I haven’t attended regularly for decades. I still feel compelled to go, and know that I’m not answering the call.

None the less, I know who is master of the universe, and I respect God a lot more than I let on. I also disrespect Him far to much.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m sorry that misled you, but I was being sarcastic.

[DoughtyOne]

Weeeelllllll..., perhaps, but I can see how someone could read that and be misled.

I am glad that some folks understood it.

[DoughtyOne]

I would like to make it clear my comment in 14 was laced with sarcasm. My initial comment in particular, was not intended to be taken literally.

Some folks got it and some didn’t. I should have been more clear.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3354507/posts?page=14#14

[DoodleDawg]

rump explained that department stores and other retailers won’t say “Merry Christmas” during the holidays anymore because “(t)here’s always lawsuits and unfortunately a lot of those lawsuits are won by the other side.”

Can anyone point me to a example of one of these lawsuits a retailer has lost?

[DoughtyOne]

I’d like to think that also.

Nice comments.

[Sarah Barracuda]

The same to you and your family :-) All the best!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I knew you intended irony, but did stir up a hornets nest of controversy which hovers around the subject.

My sense is... MAYBE he’s a believer, but a weak/green one.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your take there.