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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsResolution protecting Christmas introduced in the House
No, I'm not making this up.
https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hres637/BILLS-115hres637ih.pdf
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)backs by the adults in DC.
Have been for years.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Demsrule86
(68,583 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)About establishing a state religion?
J_William_Ryan
(1,753 posts)this resolution lacks the force of law.
Christmas also exists in a secular context.
But this is more stupidity from the reprehensible right.
Mosby
(16,318 posts)You can celebrate it and never mention God, Jesus, etc but it's STILL a religious holiday for Christians.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Yes, it does not explicitly enshrine Christianity as the state religion or state church, but it comes way too close for me.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)They "strongly disapprove of attempts to ban references to Christmas." By whom? Where? You go into almost any store and there are Christmas displays all around. Turn on the radio and it's 24/7 Christmas music. Christmas lights on many streets, garish Christmas displays on private houses and lawns. NOBODY is banning references to Christmas. But I suspect whoever wrote this thing is talking about Christmas displays on government property. Roy Moore would be proud.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)that I thought they might get stuck at the back of my head.
I was beginning to wonder what was happening to all the symbols of Christmas... Oh, yeah, they started appearing in fucking OCTOBER. So yeah, we need a resolution protecting Christmas... because it didn't start soon enough? How about if we just leave the decorations up all year?
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Protecting the term "Happy Holidays" with Andy Williams playing in the background.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)back in Christmas. It's good to know they're in Washington doing the people's work.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)Are they doing this because of all the pagan traditions that the Christians took over and made them become part of "their" holiday? Are they worried the pagans will take them back or something?
With all the stuff going on in the world, surely the Congress of the US has better things to do than this?
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Hmmmmmm. And I'm a very liberal Christian saying this. Such stupidity.
Blindingly apparent
(180 posts)Holidays crowds to determine which group makes the most charitable donations at Christmas time and the amount of individual donations I E which group adopts more Christmas angels and the quality of presents given to these angles
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So this naked pandering to a bunch of slack-jawed Fox addicts can go forward without disrupting anything important.
DFW
(54,403 posts)They are all for protecting Christmas, which has never needed protecting, and against protecting our national parks, which should be more sacred to us all than any manger scene at their local shopping mall.
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steve2470
(37,457 posts)DFW
(54,403 posts)I was in Spain Monday, Germany Tuesday, France yesterday, and Sprout City today. Netherlands tomorrow.
Get the picture? There is no rest for the weary!
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Let's get with the program freedumb caucus.
We pay them to sit around and come up with these asinine pieces of propaganda. Net neutrality? Bah! Tax scam? Double bah! What we need is to protect our holiday.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)The Onion.... Goddamn.... Seriously... Goddamn...
If Christmas needs ANY protection, it needs it from these faux, retail-oriented fuck buckets...
And speaking of religious holidays, why in the FUCK should any non-Christian give 2 shits about Christmas?
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)that makes me hate Christmas all that much more