Vote Your Values

[Norman]

Sniffer supporters are voting their values indeed.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Democratic establishment is a hotbed of abortion extremism the likes of which we have never before seen on a national scale.”

They're prolific predatory sex offenders, they rape-and-dump women by the score, they hate children, and they do anything and everything in their power to hurt and harm the kids or even kill them to evade the responsibilities of fatherhood and child support obligations. 100% DEMOCRATS, and they are EXPERTS at getting Republicans and conservatives to take the fall for their crimes.

You are far too kind to those folks.

 

[justinacolmena]

14. (CNSNews.com) – Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a “holiday tree”--rather than a "Christmas tree"--because that is what the tree is traditionally called. Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree

That is not inaccurate. The "Christmas" tree or yule tree is an ancient Pagan tradition among Germanic tribes (white people) pertaining to the celebration of the winter solstice, which long predates Christianity.

Some sects of Christianity forbid Christmas trees. I think it's a fire hazard to bring a whole cut and dry pitchy tree into the house, without a proper wood stove to burn it it, as, e.g. a yule log. A wreath or something similar for festive decoration is enough. The "Christmas lights" people string up on their houses, I think are more Jewish than Christian anyways, because it's like a menorah with that many lights burning.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You can't start off a discussion with a falsehood. Religion had not been banned anywhere.

I see you can begin a post with a lie: "Religion had not been banned anywhere."


“ In August 2011, not long after [Obama] had repeatedly vowed not to use his health care law to violate religious liberty, his administration announced that it would require all employers to pay for and provide insurance coverage for everything from sterilization to Plan B, a drug whose own FDA label warns can destroy life.”
Obama's War on the Little Sisters of the Poor | RealClearPolitics!



“Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions”
Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions

Abortion activists were livid yesterday that the Supreme Court protected the Little Sisters of the Poor from having to fund abortions. But presidential candidate.....
www.lifenews.com


And hordes of drones have been pressed into the new faith of Communism/Liberalism....as shown here:



1. War Against Christmas



Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas…

Only a miserable leftist would dedicate their life to stomping out any trace of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage

Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas… | Weasel Zippers





2. Chase Bank told a businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it could offend people. Antonio Morales, owner of Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard as a favor to the branch manager, who is one of his clients. The tree remained in the lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until Tuesday. Morales said his friend called him Wednesday to tell him the tree had to go. She later showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it. The bank referred questions to corporate offices.

View Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/03/chase-bank-orders-tree-removed





3. NPR Reporter Apologizes for Saying ‘Christmas’ On Air | The Blaze
"Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don‘t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this."

Graham also strongly chastised the U.S. military, which has restricted Christians displays of faith.


“Chaplains in the United States military are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Isn’t that a shame that a chaplain in the Christian faith is not allowed to pray in the name of Christ? So yes, there is a war, no question about it.”
As America Celebrates Christmas, Rev. Franklin Graham Says Secular 'War' Rages Against Christians



4. The movie “Hop”

This "Easter" film has no references to the Christian religion. None. Nothing about Jesus on Easter. Not even going to church. Nada. There is, however, a possible pagan allusion. Even thousands of years before Christ, say, 4,000 years ago, some in the Middle East worshipped a goddess named Astarte. Some say this fertility goddess is the source of the egg traditions that surround Easter, the name of which is supposedly derived from Astarte. Others attribute the eggs and rabbits of Easter to a later, German goddess, Eostre. Regardless of whether Easter came from Astarte or Eostre, the Christian church attempted to "redeem" this worship by attaching its festivals to Christ's resurrection. The bunnies and eggs remained, but the meaning has largely been about Jesus for centuries. Apparently, now that we've thrown out Jesus, but not the eggs and bunnies, the concept has come full circle, as the Easter Bunny Dad in "Hop" refers to the delivering of eggs and Easter baskets as a "4,000-year tradition." Hmm.
Easter Bunny lays an egg Easter Bunny lays an egg



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"Stalin remained a consistent advocate of the scientific and materialistic basis of all knowledge....Any manifestation of a challenge to the worldview of Soviet communism was met throughout with a relentless hostility."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," by Richard Overy, p. 277

5. Seattle school renames Easter eggs 'Spring Spheres'

"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.

The Seattle elementary school isn't the only government organization using spring over Easter. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts. Western Washington's Christmas Day weather statistics



6. "…on the New York Times’ Web site about a play being written by television screenwriter Theresa Rebeck for the University of Delaware Drama Department headed by a professor named Sanford Robbins …

“O Beautiful” also deals with suicide, date rape, gun rights, the founding fathers and, of course, abortion — in a subplot starting with the first scene, in which a pregnant teenager, Alice, seeks counsel from Jesus Christ, who wanders through the high school and characters’ homes without explanation. Jesus, rendered as sympathetic to everyone irrespective of their politics, reaches a provocative conclusion when Alice, who has been raped, asks where in the Bible he opposes abortion. …

Even if the play is the greatest thing written for the theater this year, when you do the quick Hollywood treatment, it’s “A Slurpee swilling, pro-abortion Jesus attacks the Tea Party.” This can only end badly: the arts edition



7. HOUSTON, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Liberty Institute, on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4, The American Legion Post 586, and the National Memorial Ladies, returned to federal court with new allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its director of the Houston National Cemetery. Last month, Liberty Institute successfully represented Houston pastor Scott Rainey in the same federal court after Houston VA officials tried to prevent him from praying in Jesus' name at a Memorial Day ceremony.

Today, Liberty Institute amended its original lawsuit that states the Department of Veterans Affairs and its Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are engaging in religious viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by adding new incidents of religious hostility including:

VA Forbids Mention of God at Funerals for Veterans and Requires Families to Submit Prayer for Approval to the Government: For 30 years, the VFW District 4 burial team, at the request of the family of the deceased, has honored veterans by performing the VFW burial ritual during private burial services at the Houston National Cemetery. For 20 years, The American Legion Post 586 has honored our veterans by performing its burial ritual for fallen veterans. On at least four separate occasions, government officials told the burial teams that prayer and religious speech could no longer be included in the burial ritual unless the family submits a specific prayer or message in writing to Director Ocasio for her approval. Government official Jose Henriquez also told the VFW Honor Guard Commander, Junior Vice Commander and Chaplain that the word "God" is forbidden.
VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to families:
VA Tells Volunteers to Remove "God Bless" from Condolence Cards to Grieving Families:
VA Closes Cemetery Chapel; Uses it for Storage:
Stay up to date on this case at www.libertyinstitute.org.
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8. Sheila Jackson Lee Diverts Islamic Terror Hearings Into Attack on Christians

It's nice to see moonbat congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participating in the hearing Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called on the continuing terror threat posed by Islamists. Unfortunately, she chose to divert the hearings to target Christians:

"Are you familiar with the Christian militants?" she asked former New York Dept. of Correctional Services official Patrick Dunleavy. "Can one might say that they might possibly want to undermine this country because right now the right for women to choose is a Constitutional right but people disagree with it but here is an individual trying to undermine the protections that are given to women? Would you suggest that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?"
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/06/sheila-jackson-4.html




The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,


“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Hussein Obama

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9. NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school
ADF-allied attorney files motion to reconsider and hold off decision in case involving 10-year-old girl
LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.

Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling...has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the...public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” The court approved the order.

The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities.

In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”
Redirected AllianceDefenseFund



10. On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired [Amanda] Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.[3] Soon afterward, many bloggers began to quote Marcotte's blog, especially posts in which she attacked the Catholic Church's position on birth control and access to abortion, writing, "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"[4] Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote, "Her hostility to religion and in particular the Catholic Church should alarm Edwards."[5] Journalist Terry Moran wrote, on an ABC News blog, "her comments about other people's faiths could well be construed as hate speech.”
Amanda Marcotte - Wikipedia




11. Lest we forget
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that persecution of Christians continues throughout the world, says a religious affairs expert. MercatorNet: Lest we forget

"Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators have reportedly assaulted an Egyptian Coptic Christian church south of Cairo. This marks the latest in a series of assaults on members of the country's Coptic minority."
Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt | News | DW | 24.12.2017




12."The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the Knights of Columbus to remove a nearly 60-year-old World War Two memorial from Montana’s Big Mountain because the memorial includes a statue of Jesus.

“It’s outrageous,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT). “This is a bunch of attorneys getting skittish, worrying about something that doesn’t need to be worried about.”

The statue was erected in 1953 by a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus. Every 10 years, the group has to renew a special permit to maintain the small plot of land in the Flathead National Forest."
Government Evicts Jesus Statue




"Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as “shameful”…. statistics were released indicating that “the current [refugee] system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim…..98% of all refugees belong to the same Islamic sect that ISIS does. And many of them, unsurprisingly, share the same vision—such as the “refugees” who recently murdered some 120 people in France, or the “refugees” who persecute Christian minorities in European camps and settlements." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

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Know who opened the door to that cultural Marxism?

September 30, 1941, FDR claimed that there was freedom of religion in the USSR. "The claim that Stalin's Russia allowed religious freedom was the first step in a massive pro-Soviet campaign that the White House coordinated for the duration of the war."
"Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow," byDennis J. Dunn, p. 137


Marxism and its allies and associates have given America the impetus to attack the faiths that made America great.

13. "Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall"http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22133907/seniors-decry-ban-christmas-tree-their-complex-newhall



14. (CNSNews.com) – Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a “holiday tree”--rather than a "Christmas tree"--because that is what the tree is traditionally called. Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree



15. “A group of anonymous "concerned" parents in Montana wrote to the Missoula County Public Schools superintendent, essentially complaining that baby Jesus is bullying their kids. They're angry that the Christmas concert at Chief Charlo Elementary School mixed songs like "Joy to the World" in with "Frosty" and "Rudolph." "[Bullying] seems to be what is occurring here," they wrote. "We have no problem with it being called a Christmas concert [but] the material should be secular."
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16. And, here we see the tolerance of the Left:

a. "Six-year-old Zachary Hood was happy at this chance to be recognized for his good reading performance. He and the other students in the first-grade class at Haines School in Medford, New Jersey, would be allowed to read a story to their classmates. Zachary initially selected Dr. Suess's The Cat in the Hat, but decided that it was too long and picked a story about Jacob and Esau from The Beginner's Bible instead. … Unfortunately teacher Grace Oliva decided the story was inappropriate, since it has based on the Bible. She would not allow Zachary to read it to the students." Liberty Magazine

b. "A teacher's aide in Indiana County filed a federal civil rights lawsuit yesterday against her employer, saying she was unfairly suspended from her job for a year without pay for refusing to remove a small cross she wears on a necklace."Suspended teacher's aide sues employer over wearing cross on necklace




"… the Obama administration’s pro-Muslim and anti-Christian policies. They fit a clear and established pattern of religious bias within his administration. For example:
When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and then sent back to the lion’s den to be enslaved, raped, or murdered.

…as the White House works on releasing a statement accusing ISIS of committing genocide against religious minorities such as Yazidis — who are named and recognized in the statement — Obama officials are arguing that Christians “do not appear to meet the high bar set out in the genocide treaty” and thus likely not be mentioned." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—==============================================

From 1929 onwards the ideological war against religion was intensified using crude inspiration slogans: ' beat religion the head every day of your life.' "A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies (History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism & Soviet Antireligious P)" by Dimitry Pospielovsky, p. 34

Shortly after this...in the first year of his regime, FDR offered the Soviets what no previous President nor sec'y of state would, recognition, and acceptance into the embrace of the civilized world.



17. “A Lewis-Palmer High School student who was told she must apologize for mentioning Jesus in a valedictorian speech or not receive a diploma…” Monument teen appeals over Jesus graduation speech – The Denver Post



18. "Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups
A slideshow presentation shown to US Army Reserve recruits classifies Christians, including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics, as religious extremists, placing them in the same category as skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas and Al Qaeda.

The presentation also warned that members of the military are prohibited from taking leadership roles in any organization the Pentagon considers ‘extremist,’ and from distributing the organization’s literature, whether on or off a military installation."
Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups - Hot Air



19. "USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah .... a recent U.S. Postal Service advertisement to sell “holiday stamps” curiously omitted a Christmas or Christian-themed message, yet included portrayals of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa."
USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah





"Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is blasting President Obama as the "most-anti-Christian" president ever over his guest list for Pope Francis's state visit later this week.

Huckabee said Obama is disregarding Catholic doctrine and insulting the pope by inviting gay rights and pro-abortion activists to the White House event on Wednesday."
Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever




Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
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The reason it's known as cultural Marxism?

"Stalin was the driving force behind a magnified anti-religious campaign....an new law....8 April 1929...No religion was permitted any longer to engage in what was loosely called religious propaganda....Clerics were permitted to perform divine service and nothing more."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," Richard Overy, p. 275

And now America suffers under that burden.


20. School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green
An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party.

Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned – along with the colors red and green.

The rules were sent to parents in an email from the school’s PTA and first reported on by MyFoxDFW.com School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green




21. Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases
“Keep decorations general and nonspecific to any religion,” blasted the guidelines to students at the State University of New York, Brockport. “Create a winter theme with lights and color rather than religious icons, or include decorations from all the cultural traditions represented.”

And above all, don’t let it be argued that the birth of Christ has anything — anything at all — to do with Christmas. On that, keep the conversation focused on the pagan aspects of Christmas. Make it seem like the Christians are the ones who stole the holiday from the pagans, and that the secular world is just stealing it back.
Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases



22. "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which operates the District's METRO system, is being sued by the Catholic Church after turning down an advertisement.

The Archdiocese of Washington is suing over an illustrative ad depicting the phrase "Find the perfect gift" under what appears to be the Star of Bethlehem and a group of shepherds." D.C. Transit Authority Rejects Catholic Church's Christmas-Themed Ad

D.C. Archdiocese sues Washington Metro over rejected Christmas ad

The Archdiocese of Washington has joined the ACLU in challenging the Washington, D.C., metro system’s advertising policies. After an ad with a Christmas theme was rejected, the archdiocese sued the transit authority for violating its First Amendment rights.

www.yahoo.com

"The Archdiocese’s ad is not hostile and it’s hard to understand why it would be considered offensive as it even leads to a website which promotes good works.

Now, this government agency is using its funds and resources to fight an ad about Christmas. Perhaps the only acceptable religion to the bloated DC government is the religion of government itself." DC Metro defends its war on Catholics this Christmas - Hot Air







23. "Q: Did Obama ask Georgetown University to remove all religious symbols before he would speak there?

A: A religious symbol was covered at the Catholic and Jesuit institution after the White House asked for a neutral TV backdrop." Obama at Georgetown - FactCheck.org


24. “School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters “So in order to be environmentally friendly in school we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards.”
It’s almost as if the tone-deafness here was intentional, as if this were a deliberate attempt to quash a holiday tradition and the Christmas spirit while also helping to obviate any benefits.” School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters


25. “Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends.” Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends. - Whatfinger News - Videos

Egypt? None of your links does what you claim.

They all do, actually.

It appears you don't mind being revealed as a lying low-life.

Must happen quite frequently.

I am a Christian. No one has stopped anyone from doing anything. War on Christmas? LOL

“Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination
A Florida State University student is suing the university for punishing him after he privately expressed his Catholic beliefs.
In June, FSU Student Senate president Jack Denton was removed from the senate for private messages in which he defended Catholic teachings on abortion and transgenderism. The faith-based advocacy law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against the university on behalf of Denton after the school refused to address the "unconstitutional violation" of Denton's First Amendment rights.
"All students should be able to peacefully share their personal convictions without fear of retaliation," ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer said. "Students and administrators have repeatedly failed to respect Jack's constitutionally protected freedoms. That's why we're filing a federal lawsuit to defend Jack." Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination - Washington Free Beacon

 

[pknopp]

You can't start off a discussion with a falsehood. Religion had not been banned anywhere.

I see you can begin a post with a lie: "Religion had not been banned anywhere."


“ In August 2011, not long after [Obama] had repeatedly vowed not to use his health care law to violate religious liberty, his administration announced that it would require all employers to pay for and provide insurance coverage for everything from sterilization to Plan B, a drug whose own FDA label warns can destroy life.”
Obama's War on the Little Sisters of the Poor | RealClearPolitics!



“Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions”
Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions

Abortion activists were livid yesterday that the Supreme Court protected the Little Sisters of the Poor from having to fund abortions. But presidential candidate.....
www.lifenews.com


And hordes of drones have been pressed into the new faith of Communism/Liberalism....as shown here:



1. War Against Christmas



Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas…

Only a miserable leftist would dedicate their life to stomping out any trace of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage

Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas… | Weasel Zippers





2. Chase Bank told a businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it could offend people. Antonio Morales, owner of Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard as a favor to the branch manager, who is one of his clients. The tree remained in the lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until Tuesday. Morales said his friend called him Wednesday to tell him the tree had to go. She later showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it. The bank referred questions to corporate offices.

View Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/03/chase-bank-orders-tree-removed





3. NPR Reporter Apologizes for Saying ‘Christmas’ On Air | The Blaze
"Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don‘t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this."

Graham also strongly chastised the U.S. military, which has restricted Christians displays of faith.


“Chaplains in the United States military are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Isn’t that a shame that a chaplain in the Christian faith is not allowed to pray in the name of Christ? So yes, there is a war, no question about it.”
As America Celebrates Christmas, Rev. Franklin Graham Says Secular 'War' Rages Against Christians



4. The movie “Hop”

This "Easter" film has no references to the Christian religion. None. Nothing about Jesus on Easter. Not even going to church. Nada. There is, however, a possible pagan allusion. Even thousands of years before Christ, say, 4,000 years ago, some in the Middle East worshipped a goddess named Astarte. Some say this fertility goddess is the source of the egg traditions that surround Easter, the name of which is supposedly derived from Astarte. Others attribute the eggs and rabbits of Easter to a later, German goddess, Eostre. Regardless of whether Easter came from Astarte or Eostre, the Christian church attempted to "redeem" this worship by attaching its festivals to Christ's resurrection. The bunnies and eggs remained, but the meaning has largely been about Jesus for centuries. Apparently, now that we've thrown out Jesus, but not the eggs and bunnies, the concept has come full circle, as the Easter Bunny Dad in "Hop" refers to the delivering of eggs and Easter baskets as a "4,000-year tradition." Hmm.
Easter Bunny lays an egg Easter Bunny lays an egg



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"Stalin remained a consistent advocate of the scientific and materialistic basis of all knowledge....Any manifestation of a challenge to the worldview of Soviet communism was met throughout with a relentless hostility."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," by Richard Overy, p. 277

5. Seattle school renames Easter eggs 'Spring Spheres'

"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.

The Seattle elementary school isn't the only government organization using spring over Easter. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts. Western Washington's Christmas Day weather statistics



6. "…on the New York Times’ Web site about a play being written by television screenwriter Theresa Rebeck for the University of Delaware Drama Department headed by a professor named Sanford Robbins …

“O Beautiful” also deals with suicide, date rape, gun rights, the founding fathers and, of course, abortion — in a subplot starting with the first scene, in which a pregnant teenager, Alice, seeks counsel from Jesus Christ, who wanders through the high school and characters’ homes without explanation. Jesus, rendered as sympathetic to everyone irrespective of their politics, reaches a provocative conclusion when Alice, who has been raped, asks where in the Bible he opposes abortion. …

Even if the play is the greatest thing written for the theater this year, when you do the quick Hollywood treatment, it’s “A Slurpee swilling, pro-abortion Jesus attacks the Tea Party.” This can only end badly: the arts edition



7. HOUSTON, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Liberty Institute, on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4, The American Legion Post 586, and the National Memorial Ladies, returned to federal court with new allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its director of the Houston National Cemetery. Last month, Liberty Institute successfully represented Houston pastor Scott Rainey in the same federal court after Houston VA officials tried to prevent him from praying in Jesus' name at a Memorial Day ceremony.

Today, Liberty Institute amended its original lawsuit that states the Department of Veterans Affairs and its Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are engaging in religious viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by adding new incidents of religious hostility including:

VA Forbids Mention of God at Funerals for Veterans and Requires Families to Submit Prayer for Approval to the Government: For 30 years, the VFW District 4 burial team, at the request of the family of the deceased, has honored veterans by performing the VFW burial ritual during private burial services at the Houston National Cemetery. For 20 years, The American Legion Post 586 has honored our veterans by performing its burial ritual for fallen veterans. On at least four separate occasions, government officials told the burial teams that prayer and religious speech could no longer be included in the burial ritual unless the family submits a specific prayer or message in writing to Director Ocasio for her approval. Government official Jose Henriquez also told the VFW Honor Guard Commander, Junior Vice Commander and Chaplain that the word "God" is forbidden.
VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to families:
VA Tells Volunteers to Remove "God Bless" from Condolence Cards to Grieving Families:
VA Closes Cemetery Chapel; Uses it for Storage:
Stay up to date on this case at www.libertyinstitute.org.
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8. Sheila Jackson Lee Diverts Islamic Terror Hearings Into Attack on Christians

It's nice to see moonbat congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participating in the hearing Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called on the continuing terror threat posed by Islamists. Unfortunately, she chose to divert the hearings to target Christians:

"Are you familiar with the Christian militants?" she asked former New York Dept. of Correctional Services official Patrick Dunleavy. "Can one might say that they might possibly want to undermine this country because right now the right for women to choose is a Constitutional right but people disagree with it but here is an individual trying to undermine the protections that are given to women? Would you suggest that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?"
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/06/sheila-jackson-4.html




The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,


“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Hussein Obama

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9. NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school
ADF-allied attorney files motion to reconsider and hold off decision in case involving 10-year-old girl
LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.

Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling...has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the...public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” The court approved the order.

The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities.

In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”
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10. On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired [Amanda] Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.[3] Soon afterward, many bloggers began to quote Marcotte's blog, especially posts in which she attacked the Catholic Church's position on birth control and access to abortion, writing, "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"[4] Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote, "Her hostility to religion and in particular the Catholic Church should alarm Edwards."[5] Journalist Terry Moran wrote, on an ABC News blog, "her comments about other people's faiths could well be construed as hate speech.”
Amanda Marcotte - Wikipedia




11. Lest we forget
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that persecution of Christians continues throughout the world, says a religious affairs expert. MercatorNet: Lest we forget

"Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators have reportedly assaulted an Egyptian Coptic Christian church south of Cairo. This marks the latest in a series of assaults on members of the country's Coptic minority."
Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt | News | DW | 24.12.2017




12."The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the Knights of Columbus to remove a nearly 60-year-old World War Two memorial from Montana’s Big Mountain because the memorial includes a statue of Jesus.

“It’s outrageous,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT). “This is a bunch of attorneys getting skittish, worrying about something that doesn’t need to be worried about.”

The statue was erected in 1953 by a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus. Every 10 years, the group has to renew a special permit to maintain the small plot of land in the Flathead National Forest."
Government Evicts Jesus Statue




"Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as “shameful”…. statistics were released indicating that “the current [refugee] system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim…..98% of all refugees belong to the same Islamic sect that ISIS does. And many of them, unsurprisingly, share the same vision—such as the “refugees” who recently murdered some 120 people in France, or the “refugees” who persecute Christian minorities in European camps and settlements." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

=====================================================

Know who opened the door to that cultural Marxism?

September 30, 1941, FDR claimed that there was freedom of religion in the USSR. "The claim that Stalin's Russia allowed religious freedom was the first step in a massive pro-Soviet campaign that the White House coordinated for the duration of the war."
"Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow," byDennis J. Dunn, p. 137


Marxism and its allies and associates have given America the impetus to attack the faiths that made America great.

13. "Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall"http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22133907/seniors-decry-ban-christmas-tree-their-complex-newhall



14. (CNSNews.com) – Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a “holiday tree”--rather than a "Christmas tree"--because that is what the tree is traditionally called. Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree



15. “A group of anonymous "concerned" parents in Montana wrote to the Missoula County Public Schools superintendent, essentially complaining that baby Jesus is bullying their kids. They're angry that the Christmas concert at Chief Charlo Elementary School mixed songs like "Joy to the World" in with "Frosty" and "Rudolph." "[Bullying] seems to be what is occurring here," they wrote. "We have no problem with it being called a Christmas concert [but] the material should be secular."
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16. And, here we see the tolerance of the Left:

a. "Six-year-old Zachary Hood was happy at this chance to be recognized for his good reading performance. He and the other students in the first-grade class at Haines School in Medford, New Jersey, would be allowed to read a story to their classmates. Zachary initially selected Dr. Suess's The Cat in the Hat, but decided that it was too long and picked a story about Jacob and Esau from The Beginner's Bible instead. … Unfortunately teacher Grace Oliva decided the story was inappropriate, since it has based on the Bible. She would not allow Zachary to read it to the students." Liberty Magazine

b. "A teacher's aide in Indiana County filed a federal civil rights lawsuit yesterday against her employer, saying she was unfairly suspended from her job for a year without pay for refusing to remove a small cross she wears on a necklace."Suspended teacher's aide sues employer over wearing cross on necklace




"… the Obama administration’s pro-Muslim and anti-Christian policies. They fit a clear and established pattern of religious bias within his administration. For example:
When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and then sent back to the lion’s den to be enslaved, raped, or murdered.

…as the White House works on releasing a statement accusing ISIS of committing genocide against religious minorities such as Yazidis — who are named and recognized in the statement — Obama officials are arguing that Christians “do not appear to meet the high bar set out in the genocide treaty” and thus likely not be mentioned." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—==============================================

From 1929 onwards the ideological war against religion was intensified using crude inspiration slogans: ' beat religion the head every day of your life.' "A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies (History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism & Soviet Antireligious P)" by Dimitry Pospielovsky, p. 34

Shortly after this...in the first year of his regime, FDR offered the Soviets what no previous President nor sec'y of state would, recognition, and acceptance into the embrace of the civilized world.



17. “A Lewis-Palmer High School student who was told she must apologize for mentioning Jesus in a valedictorian speech or not receive a diploma…” Monument teen appeals over Jesus graduation speech – The Denver Post



18. "Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups
A slideshow presentation shown to US Army Reserve recruits classifies Christians, including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics, as religious extremists, placing them in the same category as skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas and Al Qaeda.

The presentation also warned that members of the military are prohibited from taking leadership roles in any organization the Pentagon considers ‘extremist,’ and from distributing the organization’s literature, whether on or off a military installation."
Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups - Hot Air



19. "USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah .... a recent U.S. Postal Service advertisement to sell “holiday stamps” curiously omitted a Christmas or Christian-themed message, yet included portrayals of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa."
USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah





"Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is blasting President Obama as the "most-anti-Christian" president ever over his guest list for Pope Francis's state visit later this week.

Huckabee said Obama is disregarding Catholic doctrine and insulting the pope by inviting gay rights and pro-abortion activists to the White House event on Wednesday."
Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever




Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
=======================================================
The reason it's known as cultural Marxism?

"Stalin was the driving force behind a magnified anti-religious campaign....an new law....8 April 1929...No religion was permitted any longer to engage in what was loosely called religious propaganda....Clerics were permitted to perform divine service and nothing more."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," Richard Overy, p. 275

And now America suffers under that burden.


20. School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green
An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party.

Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned – along with the colors red and green.

The rules were sent to parents in an email from the school’s PTA and first reported on by MyFoxDFW.com School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green




21. Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases
“Keep decorations general and nonspecific to any religion,” blasted the guidelines to students at the State University of New York, Brockport. “Create a winter theme with lights and color rather than religious icons, or include decorations from all the cultural traditions represented.”

And above all, don’t let it be argued that the birth of Christ has anything — anything at all — to do with Christmas. On that, keep the conversation focused on the pagan aspects of Christmas. Make it seem like the Christians are the ones who stole the holiday from the pagans, and that the secular world is just stealing it back.
Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases



22. "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which operates the District's METRO system, is being sued by the Catholic Church after turning down an advertisement.

The Archdiocese of Washington is suing over an illustrative ad depicting the phrase "Find the perfect gift" under what appears to be the Star of Bethlehem and a group of shepherds." D.C. Transit Authority Rejects Catholic Church's Christmas-Themed Ad

D.C. Archdiocese sues Washington Metro over rejected Christmas ad

The Archdiocese of Washington has joined the ACLU in challenging the Washington, D.C., metro system’s advertising policies. After an ad with a Christmas theme was rejected, the archdiocese sued the transit authority for violating its First Amendment rights.

www.yahoo.com

"The Archdiocese’s ad is not hostile and it’s hard to understand why it would be considered offensive as it even leads to a website which promotes good works.

Now, this government agency is using its funds and resources to fight an ad about Christmas. Perhaps the only acceptable religion to the bloated DC government is the religion of government itself." DC Metro defends its war on Catholics this Christmas - Hot Air







23. "Q: Did Obama ask Georgetown University to remove all religious symbols before he would speak there?

A: A religious symbol was covered at the Catholic and Jesuit institution after the White House asked for a neutral TV backdrop." Obama at Georgetown - FactCheck.org


24. “School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters “So in order to be environmentally friendly in school we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards.”
It’s almost as if the tone-deafness here was intentional, as if this were a deliberate attempt to quash a holiday tradition and the Christmas spirit while also helping to obviate any benefits.” School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters


25. “Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends.” Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends. - Whatfinger News - Videos

Egypt? None of your links does what you claim.

They all do, actually.

It appears you don't mind being revealed as a lying low-life.

Must happen quite frequently.

I am a Christian. No one has stopped anyone from doing anything. War on Christmas? LOL

“Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination
A Florida State University student is suing the university for punishing him after he privately expressed his Catholic beliefs.
In June, FSU Student Senate president Jack Denton was removed from the senate for private messages in which he defended Catholic teachings on abortion and transgenderism. The faith-based advocacy law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against the university on behalf of Denton after the school refused to address the "unconstitutional violation" of Denton's First Amendment rights.
"All students should be able to peacefully share their personal convictions without fear of retaliation," ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer said. "Students and administrators have repeatedly failed to respect Jack's constitutionally protected freedoms. That's why we're filing a federal lawsuit to defend Jack." Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination - Washington Free Beacon

Again. Irrelevant. Not the government.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You can't start off a discussion with a falsehood. Religion had not been banned anywhere.

I see you can begin a post with a lie: "Religion had not been banned anywhere."


“ In August 2011, not long after [Obama] had repeatedly vowed not to use his health care law to violate religious liberty, his administration announced that it would require all employers to pay for and provide insurance coverage for everything from sterilization to Plan B, a drug whose own FDA label warns can destroy life.”
Obama's War on the Little Sisters of the Poor | RealClearPolitics!



“Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions”
Joe Biden Promises to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions

Abortion activists were livid yesterday that the Supreme Court protected the Little Sisters of the Poor from having to fund abortions. But presidential candidate.....
www.lifenews.com


And hordes of drones have been pressed into the new faith of Communism/Liberalism....as shown here:



1. War Against Christmas



Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas…

Only a miserable leftist would dedicate their life to stomping out any trace of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage

Tennessee: ACLU Sends Letter to Public Schools Warning Them Not to Celebrate Christmas… | Weasel Zippers





2. Chase Bank told a businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it could offend people. Antonio Morales, owner of Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard as a favor to the branch manager, who is one of his clients. The tree remained in the lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until Tuesday. Morales said his friend called him Wednesday to tell him the tree had to go. She later showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it. The bank referred questions to corporate offices.

View Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/03/chase-bank-orders-tree-removed





3. NPR Reporter Apologizes for Saying ‘Christmas’ On Air | The Blaze
"Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don‘t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this."

Graham also strongly chastised the U.S. military, which has restricted Christians displays of faith.


“Chaplains in the United States military are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Isn’t that a shame that a chaplain in the Christian faith is not allowed to pray in the name of Christ? So yes, there is a war, no question about it.”
As America Celebrates Christmas, Rev. Franklin Graham Says Secular 'War' Rages Against Christians



4. The movie “Hop”

This "Easter" film has no references to the Christian religion. None. Nothing about Jesus on Easter. Not even going to church. Nada. There is, however, a possible pagan allusion. Even thousands of years before Christ, say, 4,000 years ago, some in the Middle East worshipped a goddess named Astarte. Some say this fertility goddess is the source of the egg traditions that surround Easter, the name of which is supposedly derived from Astarte. Others attribute the eggs and rabbits of Easter to a later, German goddess, Eostre. Regardless of whether Easter came from Astarte or Eostre, the Christian church attempted to "redeem" this worship by attaching its festivals to Christ's resurrection. The bunnies and eggs remained, but the meaning has largely been about Jesus for centuries. Apparently, now that we've thrown out Jesus, but not the eggs and bunnies, the concept has come full circle, as the Easter Bunny Dad in "Hop" refers to the delivering of eggs and Easter baskets as a "4,000-year tradition." Hmm.
Easter Bunny lays an egg Easter Bunny lays an egg



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"Stalin remained a consistent advocate of the scientific and materialistic basis of all knowledge....Any manifestation of a challenge to the worldview of Soviet communism was met throughout with a relentless hostility."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," by Richard Overy, p. 277

5. Seattle school renames Easter eggs 'Spring Spheres'

"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.

The Seattle elementary school isn't the only government organization using spring over Easter. The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts. Western Washington's Christmas Day weather statistics



6. "…on the New York Times’ Web site about a play being written by television screenwriter Theresa Rebeck for the University of Delaware Drama Department headed by a professor named Sanford Robbins …

“O Beautiful” also deals with suicide, date rape, gun rights, the founding fathers and, of course, abortion — in a subplot starting with the first scene, in which a pregnant teenager, Alice, seeks counsel from Jesus Christ, who wanders through the high school and characters’ homes without explanation. Jesus, rendered as sympathetic to everyone irrespective of their politics, reaches a provocative conclusion when Alice, who has been raped, asks where in the Bible he opposes abortion. …

Even if the play is the greatest thing written for the theater this year, when you do the quick Hollywood treatment, it’s “A Slurpee swilling, pro-abortion Jesus attacks the Tea Party.” This can only end badly: the arts edition



7. HOUSTON, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Liberty Institute, on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4, The American Legion Post 586, and the National Memorial Ladies, returned to federal court with new allegations of religious hostility and unlawful censorship by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its director of the Houston National Cemetery. Last month, Liberty Institute successfully represented Houston pastor Scott Rainey in the same federal court after Houston VA officials tried to prevent him from praying in Jesus' name at a Memorial Day ceremony.

Today, Liberty Institute amended its original lawsuit that states the Department of Veterans Affairs and its Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are engaging in religious viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by adding new incidents of religious hostility including:

VA Forbids Mention of God at Funerals for Veterans and Requires Families to Submit Prayer for Approval to the Government: For 30 years, the VFW District 4 burial team, at the request of the family of the deceased, has honored veterans by performing the VFW burial ritual during private burial services at the Houston National Cemetery. For 20 years, The American Legion Post 586 has honored our veterans by performing its burial ritual for fallen veterans. On at least four separate occasions, government officials told the burial teams that prayer and religious speech could no longer be included in the burial ritual unless the family submits a specific prayer or message in writing to Director Ocasio for her approval. Government official Jose Henriquez also told the VFW Honor Guard Commander, Junior Vice Commander and Chaplain that the word "God" is forbidden.
VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to families:
VA Tells Volunteers to Remove "God Bless" from Condolence Cards to Grieving Families:
VA Closes Cemetery Chapel; Uses it for Storage:
Stay up to date on this case at www.libertyinstitute.org.
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8. Sheila Jackson Lee Diverts Islamic Terror Hearings Into Attack on Christians

It's nice to see moonbat congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participating in the hearing Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called on the continuing terror threat posed by Islamists. Unfortunately, she chose to divert the hearings to target Christians:

"Are you familiar with the Christian militants?" she asked former New York Dept. of Correctional Services official Patrick Dunleavy. "Can one might say that they might possibly want to undermine this country because right now the right for women to choose is a Constitutional right but people disagree with it but here is an individual trying to undermine the protections that are given to women? Would you suggest that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?"
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/06/sheila-jackson-4.html




The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,


“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Hussein Obama

============================================

9. NH court orders home-schooled child into government-run school
ADF-allied attorney files motion to reconsider and hold off decision in case involving 10-year-old girl
LACONIA, N.H. — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney filed motions with a New Hampshire court Monday asking it to reconsider and stay its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school in Meredith.

Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling...has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the...public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” The court approved the order.

The parents of the child divorced in 1999. The mother has home-schooled their daughter since first grade with curriculum that meets all state review standards. In addition to home schooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities.

In the process of renegotiating the terms of a parenting plan for the girl, the guardian ad litem involved in the case concluded, according to the court order, that the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief...in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”
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10. On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired [Amanda] Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.[3] Soon afterward, many bloggers began to quote Marcotte's blog, especially posts in which she attacked the Catholic Church's position on birth control and access to abortion, writing, "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"[4] Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote, "Her hostility to religion and in particular the Catholic Church should alarm Edwards."[5] Journalist Terry Moran wrote, on an ABC News blog, "her comments about other people's faiths could well be construed as hate speech.”
Amanda Marcotte - Wikipedia




11. Lest we forget
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that persecution of Christians continues throughout the world, says a religious affairs expert. MercatorNet: Lest we forget

"Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators have reportedly assaulted an Egyptian Coptic Christian church south of Cairo. This marks the latest in a series of assaults on members of the country's Coptic minority."
Crowds attack Coptic Church in Egypt | News | DW | 24.12.2017




12."The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the Knights of Columbus to remove a nearly 60-year-old World War Two memorial from Montana’s Big Mountain because the memorial includes a statue of Jesus.

“It’s outrageous,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT). “This is a bunch of attorneys getting skittish, worrying about something that doesn’t need to be worried about.”

The statue was erected in 1953 by a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus. Every 10 years, the group has to renew a special permit to maintain the small plot of land in the Flathead National Forest."
Government Evicts Jesus Statue




"Obama recently lashed out against the idea of giving preference to Christian refugees, describing it as “shameful”…. statistics were released indicating that “the current [refugee] system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim…..98% of all refugees belong to the same Islamic sect that ISIS does. And many of them, unsurprisingly, share the same vision—such as the “refugees” who recently murdered some 120 people in France, or the “refugees” who persecute Christian minorities in European camps and settlements." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

=====================================================

Know who opened the door to that cultural Marxism?

September 30, 1941, FDR claimed that there was freedom of religion in the USSR. "The claim that Stalin's Russia allowed religious freedom was the first step in a massive pro-Soviet campaign that the White House coordinated for the duration of the war."
"Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow," byDennis J. Dunn, p. 137


Marxism and its allies and associates have given America the impetus to attack the faiths that made America great.

13. "Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall"http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22133907/seniors-decry-ban-christmas-tree-their-complex-newhall



14. (CNSNews.com) – Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a “holiday tree”--rather than a "Christmas tree"--because that is what the tree is traditionally called. Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree



15. “A group of anonymous "concerned" parents in Montana wrote to the Missoula County Public Schools superintendent, essentially complaining that baby Jesus is bullying their kids. They're angry that the Christmas concert at Chief Charlo Elementary School mixed songs like "Joy to the World" in with "Frosty" and "Rudolph." "[Bullying] seems to be what is occurring here," they wrote. "We have no problem with it being called a Christmas concert [but] the material should be secular."
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16. And, here we see the tolerance of the Left:

a. "Six-year-old Zachary Hood was happy at this chance to be recognized for his good reading performance. He and the other students in the first-grade class at Haines School in Medford, New Jersey, would be allowed to read a story to their classmates. Zachary initially selected Dr. Suess's The Cat in the Hat, but decided that it was too long and picked a story about Jacob and Esau from The Beginner's Bible instead. … Unfortunately teacher Grace Oliva decided the story was inappropriate, since it has based on the Bible. She would not allow Zachary to read it to the students." Liberty Magazine

b. "A teacher's aide in Indiana County filed a federal civil rights lawsuit yesterday against her employer, saying she was unfairly suspended from her job for a year without pay for refusing to remove a small cross she wears on a necklace."Suspended teacher's aide sues employer over wearing cross on necklace




"… the Obama administration’s pro-Muslim and anti-Christian policies. They fit a clear and established pattern of religious bias within his administration. For example:
When a few persecuted Iraqi Christians crossed the border into the U.S., they were thrown in prison for several months and then sent back to the lion’s den to be enslaved, raped, or murdered.

…as the White House works on releasing a statement accusing ISIS of committing genocide against religious minorities such as Yazidis — who are named and recognized in the statement — Obama officials are arguing that Christians “do not appear to meet the high bar set out in the genocide treaty” and thus likely not be mentioned." Exposed: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians | Human Events



As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—==============================================

From 1929 onwards the ideological war against religion was intensified using crude inspiration slogans: ' beat religion the head every day of your life.' "A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies (History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism & Soviet Antireligious P)" by Dimitry Pospielovsky, p. 34

Shortly after this...in the first year of his regime, FDR offered the Soviets what no previous President nor sec'y of state would, recognition, and acceptance into the embrace of the civilized world.



17. “A Lewis-Palmer High School student who was told she must apologize for mentioning Jesus in a valedictorian speech or not receive a diploma…” Monument teen appeals over Jesus graduation speech – The Denver Post



18. "Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups
A slideshow presentation shown to US Army Reserve recruits classifies Christians, including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics, as religious extremists, placing them in the same category as skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas and Al Qaeda.

The presentation also warned that members of the military are prohibited from taking leadership roles in any organization the Pentagon considers ‘extremist,’ and from distributing the organization’s literature, whether on or off a military installation."
Army Reserve training material: Evangelicals, Catholics are extremist groups - Hot Air



19. "USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah .... a recent U.S. Postal Service advertisement to sell “holiday stamps” curiously omitted a Christmas or Christian-themed message, yet included portrayals of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa."
USPS ad for ‘holiday stamps’ omits Christmas — includes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah





"Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is blasting President Obama as the "most-anti-Christian" president ever over his guest list for Pope Francis's state visit later this week.

Huckabee said Obama is disregarding Catholic doctrine and insulting the pope by inviting gay rights and pro-abortion activists to the White House event on Wednesday."
Huckabee rips Obama as 'most anti-Christian' president ever




Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
=======================================================
The reason it's known as cultural Marxism?

"Stalin was the driving force behind a magnified anti-religious campaign....an new law....8 April 1929...No religion was permitted any longer to engage in what was loosely called religious propaganda....Clerics were permitted to perform divine service and nothing more."
"The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia," Richard Overy, p. 275

And now America suffers under that burden.


20. School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green
An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party.

Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned – along with the colors red and green.

The rules were sent to parents in an email from the school’s PTA and first reported on by MyFoxDFW.com School bans Christmas trees, the colors red & green




21. Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases
“Keep decorations general and nonspecific to any religion,” blasted the guidelines to students at the State University of New York, Brockport. “Create a winter theme with lights and color rather than religious icons, or include decorations from all the cultural traditions represented.”

And above all, don’t let it be argued that the birth of Christ has anything — anything at all — to do with Christmas. On that, keep the conversation focused on the pagan aspects of Christmas. Make it seem like the Christians are the ones who stole the holiday from the pagans, and that the secular world is just stealing it back.
Colleges push hard for Christ-free Christmases



22. "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which operates the District's METRO system, is being sued by the Catholic Church after turning down an advertisement.

The Archdiocese of Washington is suing over an illustrative ad depicting the phrase "Find the perfect gift" under what appears to be the Star of Bethlehem and a group of shepherds." D.C. Transit Authority Rejects Catholic Church's Christmas-Themed Ad

D.C. Archdiocese sues Washington Metro over rejected Christmas ad

The Archdiocese of Washington has joined the ACLU in challenging the Washington, D.C., metro system’s advertising policies. After an ad with a Christmas theme was rejected, the archdiocese sued the transit authority for violating its First Amendment rights.

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"The Archdiocese’s ad is not hostile and it’s hard to understand why it would be considered offensive as it even leads to a website which promotes good works.

Now, this government agency is using its funds and resources to fight an ad about Christmas. Perhaps the only acceptable religion to the bloated DC government is the religion of government itself." DC Metro defends its war on Catholics this Christmas - Hot Air







23. "Q: Did Obama ask Georgetown University to remove all religious symbols before he would speak there?

A: A religious symbol was covered at the Catholic and Jesuit institution after the White House asked for a neutral TV backdrop." Obama at Georgetown - FactCheck.org


24. “School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters “So in order to be environmentally friendly in school we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards.”
It’s almost as if the tone-deafness here was intentional, as if this were a deliberate attempt to quash a holiday tradition and the Christmas spirit while also helping to obviate any benefits.” School Bans Kids from Sending Christmas Cards To Protect Environment, Notifies Parents with Letters


25. “Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends.” Social media goes wild after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “Merry Christmas” on Fox and Friends. - Whatfinger News - Videos

Egypt? None of your links does what you claim.

They all do, actually.

It appears you don't mind being revealed as a lying low-life.

Must happen quite frequently.

I am a Christian. No one has stopped anyone from doing anything. War on Christmas? LOL

“Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination
A Florida State University student is suing the university for punishing him after he privately expressed his Catholic beliefs.
In June, FSU Student Senate president Jack Denton was removed from the senate for private messages in which he defended Catholic teachings on abortion and transgenderism. The faith-based advocacy law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against the university on behalf of Denton after the school refused to address the "unconstitutional violation" of Denton's First Amendment rights.
"All students should be able to peacefully share their personal convictions without fear of retaliation," ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhofer said. "Students and administrators have repeatedly failed to respect Jack's constitutionally protected freedoms. That's why we're filing a federal lawsuit to defend Jack." Catholic Student Sues FSU for Discrimination - Washington Free Beacon

Again. Irrelevant. Not the government.

Another lie from the apologist for this bigotry.