Merchants have caved in afraid to say Merry Christmas
anymore. We now have Happy Holidays. Nativity scenes, Christmas trees, and
decorations seem to offend liberal atheists more and more each year. Frivolous and
vindictive lawsuits are filed to remove crosses that have been in place for
decades, honoring those who served in the military and gave their lives to our
country.
Christmas parties are now holiday parties and start
without a prayer – they don’t want to offend anybody. If liberal atheists are so offended, why not leave
your secularism at the door or come to work on Christmas Day and Easter? They
are federal holidays designated to celebrate our Christian traditions, the
birth of Christ and the resurrection of Christ.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation challenged the
two nativities scenes in the public dining rooms of the Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base and caused their swift and immediate removal. If the plastic crèche was so
offensive, why isn’t anybody among the 18 soldiers who complained, coming out
to tell us why they must be removed?
Bill O’Reilly, in an interview with the Religious Freedom
Foundation president debated that “The crèche and the nativity scene just
basically portrays what happened on Christmas Day and because it is a federal
holiday it seems to be in context, it’s not like you’re making anybody at
Guantanamo Bay pray or go to church or say, ‘Hallelujah! I love Jesus.’ It’s a
depiction of the federal holiday.”
Weinstein argued that “Christian privilege previously
unchallenged <is>being challenged….Christian privilege is now gone and
now welcome to the land of equality. You must all share your toys.” When he talks
about the “land of equality,” is he talking about the progressive agenda of
"social justice?" I thought all Americans were free to practice their
faith and could take time off to observe days that are not necessarily
sanctioned as a federal holiday. And what “toys” is he talking about?
O’Reilly insisted that Weinstein did not make any sense
and called the complaints cowardly. “It was cowardly because this is a
depiction of a secular holiday that was signed into law… and if someone’s
offended about it, I want to know why and your guys don’t have the courage to
stand up and tell me.”
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Weinstein contended that “… your Christian personal
rights will always be trumped by the civil rights of your fellow American
citizens.” As I said earlier, these employees who are offended by our Christian
traditions and holidays and demand their civil rights can go to work on
Christmas and Easter.
Liberals argue all the time when it is convenient to
their agenda and want to stifle their opponents’ freedom of speech that “we
cannot mix church and state.” I never
read that exact statement in our Constitution yet they conveniently use and hide
behind the deliberate misinterpretation of the First Amendment to the
Constitution that says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …”
Phil Robertson was released
by A & E from the successful Duck Dynasty show because his honest opinion
based on Biblical beliefs outraged the small minority who abusively and
vitriolically silence anyone who disagrees with them. The majority must now
give in to the minority in order to keep their jobs. The PC police have become
the official “controller” and “stifler” of free speech, followed by universities
with their “free speech” corners.
Yet the government runs outrageous
ads, urging people to enroll in ObamaCare, one with semi-nude men prancing
around and dancing in pairs dressed in speedos that leave nothing to the
imagination. And this is not offensive to the majority of Americans?
We cannot walk through
life with such a degree of sensitivity that we are offended by others with a
different point of view, opinion, or belief system. Liberals do not have carte
blanche to pick and choose what they deem bigoted and hate speech, especially
when they are the biggest offenders at times.
As a wise person said, “If
you want ‘change’ in this country, it won’t be achieved by censoring those that
don’t want change, it happens from just living your life as you see fit.” You should
not impose your value system on others by hiding behind government fiat or the
judicial system.
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