" Obviously the gov't isn't telling US Cellular to omit Christmas trees, but they are afraid of lawsuits, the ACLU, and the generally oppressive atmosphere towards any religious expression. "
Yes, it needs to be explained clearly that suppressing voluntary public religious expression is SUPPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH. Another example are the school officials who FORBID student valedictorians from evoking religious sentiments in commencement speeches. Amazing. The ACLU is at the forfront of destroying these 1st amendment rights, because their interest is in perverting the constitution not defending it.
As I said in another post ...
What I do have a problem with is the fascistic idea that all public expressions of religious sentiment are out of bounds simply because they (by necessity) fail to be all-inclusive. *Any* expression fails to be all-inclusive, so this is a recipe for supressing *any* religious sentiment in public. That is repressive, anti-freedom and and anti-religious bigotry.
What I do have a problem with is the fascistic idea that all public expressions of religious sentiment are out of bounds simply because they (by necessity) fail to be all-inclusive. And obviously no expression of religion can ever be all-inclusive (such as the sub-human who recently - and I believe - successfully challenged some religious expression somewhere, saying HIS religion wasn't allowed expression. His "religion"? Phallus worship, which he invented, and wanted to display a giant penis as an object of worship.
*Any* expression fails to be all-inclusive, so this is a recipe for supressing *any* religious sentiment in public. That is repressive, anti-freedom and anti-religious bigotry.
I am convinced that this anti-religious bigotry is a fully conscious plan by the leftist/secular-humanist/liberal/social Darwinis/homo-nazi/feminists etc. No doubt about it.
Some have expressed on this or other threads that it is only Christians who are targeted. I beg to differ. Orthodox Jews have supported Moore, and look what happened to Dr. Laura's TV show - and she is banned in Canada. People would not call me a Christian, so I don't have a dog in this fight, so to speak. But any attack on moral absolutes (which all come from revealed scripture, one way or another) is an attack on all religion.