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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:18 AM
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Conservatives "reclaiming" Xmas leads to hate mail: "Go live in Israel!"
Last week, the Alliance Defense Fund -- a Christian legal group founded by conservative minister James Dobson -- posted on its Web site a letter and news release warning the Jackson County, Ga., schools to lay off Christmas.

The group said it had learned that the 6,000-student district northeast of Atlanta prohibited teachers from wearing angel pins, banned references to a ``Christmas'' party, removed some Christmas songs from a concert, took the word ``God'' out of another song, prohibited classroom Bibles and art with angels or Nativity scenes, and banned the greeting ``Merry Christmas.''

The Christian law group offered to educate the school system about religious rights. But senior counsel David Cortman warned, ``When necessary, we litigate these issues.''

Within 24 hours, Superintendent Andy Byars had digested the faxed letter -- along with a small flood of incensed e-mail from around the Internet denouncing, sometimes in offensive terms, his schools.

``You are either bigoted Jews who hate Christians or mindless secularists,'' noted one anonymous e-mail. ``Go live in Israel.''

Byars' head was spinning because, he said, almost none of the claims represented district policy.....

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13395734.htm
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:23 AM
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1. When the talk of "war on Christmas" started, I expected it to lead to this
"War on Christmas" leads as inevitably to "liberal Jewish lawyers" as a line of bad poetry ending with "love" leads to a line ending with "dove."

Tucker
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:28 AM
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2. Talibornagains
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:29 AM
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3. Israel is only useful to them for their neo-con visions of world dominatio
They secretly believe that all the Jews are going to hell.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:33 AM
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5. Actually...
Their obsession, the fundies anyways, with Israel stems from the apocalyptic prophecy that the second coming will only happen once the Jews reclaim their homeland.

Then, of course, they will burn with the rest of the heathen.

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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:31 AM
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4. Personally
I would not care if x-mas was banned from the Universe.

Let's do Yule, the return of the Sun.

I do not care if Santee Claws gets .. whatever. I hate it. It absolutely disprupts the world.
And means NOTHING. So.. logical thinking .. useless. Destructive even.
War on Christmas. What a hoax.
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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:36 AM
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6. Crazy
:puke:

:grr:

:nuke:

"Go live in Israel."

Does he realize what he just said? America is for Christians only, Jews get out? Remind you of anyone...?

Sadly, I'm sure he probably knew and meant every bit of it.

Damn psychotic morons.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:38 AM
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7. "Hippies, move to France!" "Blacks move to Africa!"
These types clearly consider America their "own" and are always telling people to move somewhere or the other.
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 01:10 PM
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12. Comedian Steven Wright
had a good line on this topic.
Some heckler told him that if he "didn't like America he should leave".
Wright responded "I can't leave. I don't want to become a victim of US foreign policy"

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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:39 AM
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8. That was what I was thinking....
...of course I hear that about Jews who are "pro-Israeli" too.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:47 AM
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9. Hey fundies!! Have Yourselves a Very Fascist Christmas!
You can sing a slaying song tonight.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 05:08 AM
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10. "Go live in Israel"
These Fundie wingnuts need to take themselves and go find some deserted island where they can live by themselves. Then they can take their twisted Bible-domination fantasies to their ultimate fruition and see if they really like them as much as they think they will. In the meantime, the rest of us can live normal lives again.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 01:05 PM
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11. Someone should tell them
"Racist fucks, get a time machine and go back to Nazi Germany!"
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