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Denver bans words 'Merry Christmas' from traditional downtown parade of lights
Talk shows on KOA 850am ^ | December 1st, 2004 | Gunny Bob Newman, Donna Star

Posted on 12/01/2004 10:37:03 PM PST by ajolympian2004

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To: ajolympian2004
It's not the Grinch that stole Christmas.......it's the liberal left that is in the process of stealing Christmas from Christians.

Do Christians care and what are they doing about it?

Leni

81 posted on 12/02/2004 5:22:07 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: California Patriot

"Exactly. Defy these pukes. Show them who's boss."

It gets harder and harder to defy them as hordes of non-Christians continue to pour into our land. And, it will get worse before it gets better, if ever gets better. Do you see where our country is headed?

As the Christian base shrinks and the number of non-Christian minorities increases through both, legal and illegal immigration, the newcomers and newborn will demand more and more that Christmas and its traditions be abolished. Of course the decline of our Christian European culture is rapid only in historic terms. But for those living through it, the changes are less perceptible.

The multiculturalism that the new hordes of immigrants bring is by its definition, non-American. Either America is an American culture founded on the principles of Christianity or it is multicultural. It cannot be both. Most minorities I talk to, envision America's future composition as somewhat like the countries they come from. Their continued high immigration and birthrates will create a society in which the Third World types are present in ever-increasing larger numbers than today. It will produce a society in which the non-Europeans will be the vast majority, and we, the minority, will be totally under the political and cultural control of the new Third World majority.

But the fact is that this notion of multiculturalism is a lie, for it demands the destruction of Western culture. But even more than our culture, what is at stake here is the very survival of our life form on this planet, the very right of our people to continue the distinctions that make us as we are. In the end, we will be forced to assimilate into their culture, not them into us, unless we munster the courage to speak out openly and, if necessary, be more militant about it.

America, you've been warned! Take heed and let not political correctness (ie, fear) control your lives.


82 posted on 12/02/2004 5:57:47 AM PST by Baraonda (Demographic changes has consequences.)
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To: ajolympian2004; All
See also "Parade prohibition puzzles preacher" for additional Freeper comments.
83 posted on 12/02/2004 6:00:39 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Merry Christmas Ping!


84 posted on 12/02/2004 6:03:23 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Hickenlooper raised the ire of another of his fund's recipients, Colorado ACORN, when he opposed a similar living wage initiative in Denver, where he owns seven restaurants, employs 400 workers..."

Hmmm, so minimum wage laws DO have a negative impact on business, eh Hicky?

85 posted on 12/02/2004 6:14:05 AM PST by McClintock
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To: ajolympian2004

If the government determines that it is against the law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then, so be it.

And if that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it. And since they already have prohibited any prayer in the schools, on which they deem their authority, then so be it. I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen. I say, "So be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions.

I would like to think that those people have the public's best interests at heart.

BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?

Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and can't Post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe the government and its employees need paid time off to participate in the Easter and Christmas celebrations that honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.

I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter. After all, it's just another day.

I'd like the Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter as well as Sundays. After all, it's just another day.

I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all, it's just another day.

I'm thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices and services would be open on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."

In fact... I think that our government offices should be open on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God...) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day...

What do you all think????


86 posted on 12/02/2004 6:16:28 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Click on my name to see what readers have said about my Christian novels!)
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To: ajolympian2004

I knew this was where they were heading but absolutely stunned nevertheless.


87 posted on 12/02/2004 6:18:18 AM PST by yarddog
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To: ajolympian2004

Funny how the holiday season seems to be open to everybody but Christians....


88 posted on 12/02/2004 6:20:30 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: ajolympian2004
Just posted this morning: A lump of coal in Denver's stocking (for banning the term "Christmas")
89 posted on 12/02/2004 6:21:15 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: ajolympian2004

Woo-Hoo, Denver city fathers, way to catch the wave on its way out.

Idiots.


90 posted on 12/02/2004 6:27:11 AM PST by Let's Roll (For a guy who shirked his own job, Kerry sure was eager to tell others how to do theirs ...)
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To: ajolympian2004
Seeing as this nonsense is happening in Colorado, I think it would be great if people gathered in front of their town hall and sang this little "South Park" diddie.

Not very clean, definitely not p.c., but the more I hear that you're not supposed to say, "Merry Christmas", the more I feel like saying it as much as I possibly can.

(Apologies to those who might be offended - then again, the whole point here is that it is the supposed desire not to offend ANYONE that leads to this sort of repressive nonsense in the first place.)

Artist: Mr. Garrison
Song: Merry F***ing Christmas

Mr. Garrison:
I heard there is no Christmas
In the silly Middle East
No trees, no snow, no Santa Claus
They have different religious beliefs

They believe in Muhammad
And not in our holiday
And so every December
I go to the Middle East and say...

"Hey there Mr. Muslim
Merry f***ing Christmas
Put down that book the Koran
And hear some holiday wishes.

In case you haven't noticed
It's Jesus's birthday.
So get off your heathen Muslim ass
and f***ing celebrate."

There is no holiday season in India I've heard
They don't hang up their stockings
And that is just absurd!

They've never read a Christmas story.
They don't know what Rudolph is about
And that is why in December
I'll go to India and shout...

"Hey there Mr. Hinduist
Merry f***ing Christmas
Drink eggnog and eat some beef
And pass it to the missus.

In case you haven't noticed
It's Jesus's birthday
So get off your heathen Hindu ass
and f***ing celebrate!"

Now I heard that in Japan
Everyone just lives in sin
They pray to several gods
And put needles in their skin.

On December 25th
All they do is eat a cake
And that is why I go to Japan
And walk around and say...

"Hey there Mr. Shintoist
Merry f***ing Christmas
God is going to kick your a**
You infidelic pagan scum.

In case you haven't noticed
There's festive things to do
So lets all rejoice for Jesus
And Merry f***ing Christmas to you."

On Christmas day I travel `round the world and say,
"Taoists, Krishnas, Buddhists, and all you atheists too,
Merry F***ing Christmas, To You!"

(Clapping)

Thank you Mr. hat

91 posted on 12/02/2004 6:43:31 AM PST by Sicon
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To: Joe Hadenuf

"Who is being offended here? Immigrants? Illegal aliens?"

Islamist's?


92 posted on 12/02/2004 6:50:17 AM PST by CedarDave (Celebrate November 2, 2004 -- May it always be known as Vietnam Veterans Victory Day!)
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To: FloridianBushFan

Ping for later


93 posted on 12/02/2004 6:50:47 AM PST by FloridianBushFan (Merry Christmas , God Bless our troops and President Bush)
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To: Baraonda

Hey...I'm all in favor of having orderly, controlled immigration, but the vast majority of immigrants to the U.S. are indeed Christians. I don't know where you get the idea that they're not.

It's not immigrants that are behind all this anti-Christian stuff...it's the coastal elites and academia.


94 posted on 12/02/2004 7:01:08 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: ajolympian2004
The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .......

Translation: It is unconstitutional for Congress to estabklish the Church of the United Stastes of America and it is unconstitutional for Government to prohibit you from wishing someone a Merry Christmas.

A lawsuit all the way up to SCOTUS is in order here.

95 posted on 12/02/2004 7:01:10 AM PST by Polybius
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To: ElectionTracker

Go a step further. As soon as the parade is about to start, everyone should walk onto the route with their signs, sit down, and then start singing. The specatacle of either a.) the police dragging away people singing Silent Night, or b.) th police refusing to do so would spell the end to this mayor's administration, and likely get the word out to boycott his businesses.


96 posted on 12/02/2004 7:13:22 AM PST by Liberty Tree Surgeon (Buy American, the Nation you save may be your own)
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To: ajolympian2004

This is so unreal. When I went to the Parade of Lights 28 years ago when I lived in Denver, part of the attraction (besides the Christmas aspect of the parade) were the wonderful Christmas decorations in the windows of the Denver Dry Goods and May D&F stores. So are Christmas displays also banned from the stores? Under their new rules, it might be offensive if people look in a store window during the parade. Maybe they should have the merchants put drapes in the windows so they can close them during the parade.


98 posted on 12/02/2004 7:19:30 AM PST by SueAngel (I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could.)
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To: ajolympian2004

Christians should stay away from this evil display of secular humanism.


99 posted on 12/02/2004 7:20:29 AM PST by JesseHousman
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To: JesseHousman

make a Pagan party out of it, then burn it


100 posted on 12/02/2004 7:24:08 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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