Posted on 12/16/2004 2:45:25 PM PST by fanfan
I say let their pockets books help them decide whats right.
BTW, Merry Christmas, everyone.
The contempt and outright hatred for Christ and Christians just oozes out of every word of this "report."
Wow. That report lost me on word three. "Ultra Conservative" indeed... PLONK!
APf
I'm already boycotting Target for their SA Santa Claus banning decision. Ho-ho-hope you have a rotten holiday sales season Target.
""Why not simply require stores owned by Jews to put a gold star in their ads and on their storefronts?" the Rev. Jim Melnyk, associate rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, wrote in a letter to the editor."
The good Reverend is another prime example of the depths the episcopal church has sunk to. I would expect all men of the cloth to support putting Christ back into Christmas.
When was the last time CBS reported on the activities of "ultra-liberal" groups?
Ping
Political correctness, by its very nature, is "running amok". There is no acceptable level of political correctness.
You just gotta love this "reverend" comparing Christians objecting to Christ being obliterated from His own birthday, to the Nazis carrying out their pogrom against the Jews.
He and Maureen Dowd need to marry. Just think how miserably they could be together.....
At least the "journalist" didn't refer to him as the Reverend Barry Lynn.
What a vile preacher. I'm guessing his flock is pathetically small.
Maybe he'll revert back to dust soon.
Hey Barry, where's your critique outlining your 'troubles' with the 9th Circuit deciding that Islam education can be taught in California schools because it's "educational" not religious? You know, "educational" stuff like reciting Koran verses, taking Muslim names for the day, etc. Where's your dedicated concern for the separation of mosque and state?
(crickets chirping)
What if they don't say anything even remotely holiday related? What if they stick to the "have a nice day" that works the other 11 months of the year?
Being not a chatty person pretty much the only thing a clerk says that I pay even the slightest attention to is how much of my money they want, the rest is immaterial and I am unconcerned.
Ohhhhh you're "ultra" conservative if you love the Lord and are just plain ole sick and tired of seeing the meaning of Christmas (you know the birth of Christ!) being diminished year after year in the name of commercialism and political correctness.
In the small southern town where I grew up the Jewish merchants had no problem with having their newspaper ads with Santa Claus and the words Merry Christmas. While the stores didn't have the nativity in them. There were decorations that had Merry Christmas on them. Most of those same merchants had ads that wished their customers Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the Christmas day addition of the paper. Granted they were a very liberal synagogue, but it was never an issue. If the leftists have their way I doubt that most Americans will get all that enthused about buying presents to open around the Yule Log. If Christmas goes a lot of small merchants who depend on the Christmas season for their yearly profit will go out of business.
Simply demanding, as the communist/socialist democrats always whine, EQUAL TIME!
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