Posted on 12/02/2004 12:10:30 AM PST by Stoat
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MY CHRISTMAS CRUSADE
By Michelle Malkin · December 02, 2004 02:36 AM
The persecution never ends. Denver has launched war against a church group that wanted to march in the city's
From the Denver Post: Parade Organizers Say Christmas Carols May Be Offensive To Others Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase "Merry Christmas" will be removed from the city building and replaced with "Happy Holidays."
I am hereby launching the Lump of Coal campaign. Later today, I will box up a lump of charcoal, mark the package "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and send it to the Denver Mayor in protest of his idiotic policy. Please join me in doing the same (and if you take a photo of your creatively designed package, I will link/post). Send to: Mayor John W. Hickenlooper |
Michelle.... you are a great American!
I like the way she thinks...
Whoops.....I pinged you on your thread. Guess you beat me to it!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, and to all a good night!
pssssssstttt........
Lovely idea, but where do I get a lump of coal???
Don't send the very best, get a cheap bag of Charcoal.
>>>Lovely idea, but where do I get a lump of coal???
Get the stuff you use in the BBQ grill - charcoal...like Michelle mentions...comes in a bag - Popular brand: Kingsford...
LOL THANKS! I do have Charcoal! (Coal is hard to come by in the desert.)
Awesome. Looks like I'm in for a fun project this weekend! Woohoo!
In her article, she uses the word 'charcoal' and so I believe that she is referring to that mainstay of the American Barbecue, most commonly associated with our friends at the Kingsford company
I'm thinking of adding in a bit of cow manure for some flavor! LOL
Christians need to stop being silent and start taking actions. Boycott the parade. Boycott malls that don't play proper Christian Christmas carols. Get vocal. There is nothing in the Gospels that says you must shut up and be silent, rather just the opposite. Stand up and show your faith, protect your right to live in a Christian community of the faithful and express it. We should not give a hoot if the sinful and hateful are "offended". If Muslims can blare their call to prayer, We can blare Christmas carols and celebrate the birth of Christ. If any business objects, don't shop there. And after Christmas, start being a Christian and live like one. Boycott and protest things YOU find offensive!!!
No No ... send them a Christmas Card like this .. it will send them into shock :0)
Oh you're so right, they would be mortified! lol
I agree with getting vocal .. but don't boycott
Go to the parade and sing Christmas carols
This sounds like Muslim work. They do whatever it takes, legally or illegally, to suppress the expression of any religion other than theirs.
Political Correctness run amok. I was offended to have to sit through a "winter carnival" in Phoenix 6 years ago, and every song was watered down so as not to offend the secularists.
What a glorious idea...I think that a massive, grassroots protest is precisely what the ACLU-types fear the most.
Boycotting the parade is the wrong thing to do. Don't sit on both hands because your offended. Offend the politically correct nutcases back by exercising your right to free speech and sing CHRISTmas carols and telling people Merry CHRISTmas.
Sounds like fun, but be careful of how people might react in these security-conscious times. I would hate for a Freeper to be arrested :-)
President Bush won re-election because 60 million of us said "This nonsense has got to stop". Now is not the time to sit on hands.
They may be able to stop government and public sponsor events
But then can't stop individuals from speaking .. or in this case singing
Remember the story of the football game where everyone in the stands took it upon themselves to say the Lord Prayer before the game
Well .. we should sing Christmas Carols
Sing It Loud and Sing it Proud!!
JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
That sounds just awful. Things like that do nothing but create opposition to this bald-faced social engineering garbage and PC insanity.
The good folks in Denver who are sick of this crap should call, mail, or deliver in person, their protests to this idiocy!
Now, I suppose Michelle is a second generation immigrant -- shows why we need smart, skilled, hard-working immigrants. We should make it clear to all -- you want to live in America, be willing to work and accept our (red-state) ethics. If you don't, then Canada or Mexico beckons -- vamos muchachos y muchachas
I would hate for a Freeper to be arrested :-)
You're right, I would much rather be out singing Christmas Carols!! :)
I could understand this crap happening in Boulder, but it's puzzling to say the least to see this happening in Denver. It's probably no surprise perhaps, since the Denver City Council is a bunch of Democrats. It came as no surprise to me to see Colorado become a swing state this year, particularly since Colorado has taken in quite a number of California transplants over the years, pushing their Socialist agenda down Colorado's throat.
Please be advised that I sent Michelle an email advising her that her Crusade has been Freeped, and that she will be getting lots of support for this worthy effort.
Please everybody check back with her blog regularly for updates on the Lump of Coal campaign, and please feel free to post any relevant info here as well.
Let's take back Christmas!
I'll be calling all my relatives in Denver in the morning, and asking them to make Merry Christmas signs to take to the parade!! I won't be up there until the 18th, but I'll ask them to take pictures, and I'll send them to her site, and post them here! ;)
Wonderful! Full steam ahead! Wooo Hooo!!
Spend your money elsewhere. The economy won't tank, the corporations will take notice.
The event planners will take notice when they only draw 10% and few children.
The left doesn't care "why" people go, so long as you are there. The more people they can claim "went" the more they can claim in the media and to superiors that their event was a "success".
Meanwhile, we can celebrate Christmas every day (Easter too!). Any time you want to take the opportunity to remember Jesus' birth or resurrection, you can. Try saying "Merry Christmas" to every stranger you meet, especially retailer. Every day. All year.
I honestly just love brothers like you who are willing to be the men God made instead of whiny wussies! Bravo!
People need to stand up and say that "freedom of religion" does not mean "freedom FROM religion".
In Singapore, which is not a "Christian" nation per se, they decorate the streets in bright lights and gaudy fake snow at Christmas time, and no one, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or atheist, has a problem with it.
If I happen to say "Merry Christmas" to a friend who is Buddhist, he doesn't get all bent out of shape about it. Why should he? He knows it's just a friendly greeting, and no offense is meant or taken.
Of course, Singaporeans say "Happy Chinese New Year" and "Happy Ramadan," and "Happy Deepavali" (it's a Hindu holiday) on the appropriate days as well. Each celebrates his own holidays and lets others celebrate theirs.
They will also take note when folks take back Christmas
Bring back the days of Christmas Caroling
Bring back Tis the Season to be Jolly
Can you just imagine having blocks and blocks of people singing Christmas Songs through out the Parade?
Like I said above
Sing it Loud and Sing it Proud!
I understand your idea of boycotting the parade, but by the time Friday early evening arrives I predict that there will be thousands and thousands more at the event with their 'Merry Christmas' signs and singing Christmas carols. We'll see. I'll be there with some friends.
There are two bills that have been introduced in the U.S. Congress, one in the House, HR3799, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.3799:
and one in the Senate, S2323.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2323:
Both of these bills are called the “Constitution Restoration Act of 2004.” These two bills were written by a team led by Chief Justice Roy Moore. These two bills will stop the federal courts, once and for all, from ruling on matters of religious expression in America. Displays of the Ten Commandments will once again be secure, prayer in schools will once again be enjoyed, and our religious freedoms will be returned to the people who rightfully own those freedoms—us!
We should all write all congress and senators and demand they support them.
The Declaration of Independence declares, “All men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable (God-given) rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that to secure those rights, governments are established among men, deriving their just powers (authority) from the consent of the governed.” This covenant between America and God is on the verge of being meaningless, unless we stop the tyrannical federal courts that have worked for years to destroy those very rights and freedoms that made this nation great. Our government was established and given power for the express purpose of protecting the rights that were given to us by God, These lefty anti Christ want government to become god.
I have no idea, but I have some doggie doo doo I could package up!
Let's just bombard the Mayor with really Christian Christmas cards!! I'm game for that!
As a matter of fact, I HAVE a lump of coal. It is in a pretty, red, round can with a picture of Santa on the lid. He is looking in his book labled, "EXTRA Naughty Boys & Girls", Around the edge of his picture, it says "A LUMP OF COAL for all naughty boys & girls." It is about 3 1/2" in diameter, and not quite 1" deep. Inside is a piece of red tissue folded around several small lumps of coal.
On the back, it says, "Santa has decided that _________ has been very naughty this year." "from ____________.
It is from The Tin Box Co of America Inc.
We bought it for a special relative, but she moved, and didn't leave a forwarding address before we could send it.
This might be a good alternative use for it.
We may have found it at Spencer's Gifts, but I realy don't remember for sure.
PING! Action Needed! Bombard him with CHRISTMAS cards!
Another good Christmas Carol to sing
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