Posted on 12/02/2005 1:01:43 PM PST by Caleb1411
For the last 10 years, there has been an annual rite of passage that Americans have come to expect. Every year, following the reflective and family oriented Thanksgiving Day celebrations, better than 90 percent of Americans begin their own celebrations of their dearest holiday of all. Nearly 96 percent of Americans observe in either cultural, religious, or community way the holiday of Christmas.
Some attempt to deny the religious aspect of their celebration and stick exclusively with the "secular" or "historical" or "heritage" types of observances. Atheists for example still put up a Christmas tree and exchange presents.
But Americans celebrating Christmas is not the rite of passage I'm talking about.
Rather it is the public assault against Christmas as is initiated each year by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has taken it upon themselves – as a badge of honor, if you will – to attempt to systematically expunge the terms, definitions, and in many cases the symbols of the holiday from municipalities to school districts, and from clothing stores to home improvement centers. Through threats, intimidation and – in increasing numbers of actual cases of litigation – the anti-God organization leads the charge. In large part because the towns, schools, and businesses they prey upon are small and uninitiated, they give up from fears of a costly legal battle.
And while the ACLU's advance seems unstoppable, little has been done to reply to their increasing desire to devour every public institution and re-conform it to an atheistic viewpoint that is every bit as much an expression of religious speech as anything they protest.
And this year, the examples stretch from Massachusetts to Georgia.
Well enough is enough.
My fellow New York-based broadcasters are doing what they can. Bill O'Reilly is nightly uncovering the ACLU's exploits and exposing them to the cable news universe. My friend John Gibson has written a best-selling book titled "The War On Christmas," which documents the worst examples from recent years of the ACLU's assault on Christmas.
Yet in my way of thinking, we have not answered the ACLU on their own terms properly.
Until now.
Beginning this week, and extending for the next 25 days, I am actively encouraging you to fight back against the ACLU onslaught – and doing so in such massive numbers that they will be forced to sit up and take notice. The plan is simple: Drown them in wishes for a "Merry Christmas."
What an increasing coalition of bloggers, media personalities, and public figures will be calling for over the next number of days is for you to send a "Merry Christmas" card to the national headquarters of the ACLU. Make sure the card is not a generic "Happy Holidays" card, but rather a specific "Merry Christmas" card. And if you're really up for some fun, hand write a personal paragraph inside, explaining to the ACLU staffers why Christmas is such a valued treasure to you personally. Send it to:
ACLU
"Wishing You Merry Christmas"
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Be kind, be polite, and heap lots of fiery hot coals upon their heads by doing it all with a grin on your face, and kindness in your tone. It will be far more infuriating to deluge them with correspondence that is argued logically and politely, from classy people, who love their families, their communities and their holidays. We would like to see more than 100,000 Christmas cards be flooding in to the national offices, so get your kids and spouse to write one as well.
Ongoing progress of the campaign over the next 25 days will be documented here. Already there is a fast growing number of large blog, talk-radio, and media personalities (Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt, Radio Blogger) contributing to the cause. But spreading the word is something we would appreciate – 100,000 Christmas cards is no small endeavor.
There are many different ways to fight back against those who seek to destroy that which is sacred to us. But if we will not stand up for what we love, who will?
And by the way ... if nobody has told you yet: "Merry Christmas!"
Oh yeah.
:)
And the best part is they are going to have to open them all to see if there is any money in them. Hot diggity!
A Christmas card like this would cause more than a few heart attacks for those at ACLU Headquarters.
Pinging myself so I can keep track of the progress.
Merry Christmas Anthony and Nadine!
Hehehe. I'm definitely doing this. I have several boxes of "Merry Christmas" cards (check WalMart - they carry a nice selection) that I'm writing up for the wounded warriers, and can certainly spare one for those nasties at the AllCommunistsLiberalUnion.
Thanks for the reminder. Do you remember, a few years ago, the county executive for ?King County Washington? (where Seattle is?) issued a "no Merry Christmas" rule? I think a bunch of us (including me) called him to wish him just that. I can't speak for others, but I was polite when I called.
And may one of those blessings be His steering you from paths of error into paths of righteousness.
bttt
I remember that. I bet he won't make the same mistake again.
Ping
I would love to see the look on thier faces as they open one after another and finding no money just a Merry Christmas
On a side note I write MERRY CHRISTMAS on all my checks I write in the memo,
The result of this exercise will be that the ACLU will file a lawsuit against the US post office, demanding that the US post office stop delivering Christmas cards because they are a governmental agency.
ANYTHING to make those "wonderful...misunderstood...children of God" over at the ACLU have a better Christmas.
After all....it's the Christian thing to do.
redrock
That had to be a glimpse of Dante's lowest level of hell for them.
LOL........man, I love the way you think.
I recently unveiled on the blogosphere my Christmas gift to the ACLU------I am giving "The Oreck Challenge" to each and every ACLU'er, with my personal Christmas greeting on where the ACLU can stick it.
Talk about raising my hopes for the Christmas season!
Absolutely. I bet we would all be in dutch if some liberals' mothers taught them manners and courtesy. I think most of us agree some of their issues are at least worth hearing out. But the way they always come out name calling, denigrating, whining and screaming obscenities it's no wonder their causes are all in retreat. Merry Christmas!!
Beautiful fax initiative.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas-----ACLU-types are doubling their valium dosages.
I'll look through my catalogues for a coupon to enclose with my card: "Good for $5 off any Bible on www.christianbook.com."
LOL, yeah the ACLU has some Christians.... Har!
Postage price increases in January. Use up your old stamps!
And, by all means, use the USPS's Madonna and Child Christmas stamp!!
If ACLU wants money with the cards, just send them Monopoly money.
They're prepositionally challenged; they know how to use from, but they can't figure out of.
Merry Christmas!
And think of the gnashing of teeth whenever A Charlie Brown Christmas airs. Maybe the ACLU will sue CBS or the Charles Schulz estate.
Didn't the ACLU represent Rush Limbaugh in Florida?
The ACLU is losing big on their anti-Christmas campaign.
Everyone loves Christmas!
My first Christmas card this year, which I received in the mail today, is from my Jewish cousin!
Take THAT (slap-slap-slap-), Barry Lynn!
They're prepositionally challenged; they know how to use from, but they can't figure out of.
...and when I hear the term 'Separation of Church and State', tiny blood vessels burst inside my head.
The left truly is immune to facts and reason.
I believe you're right. Maybe a deluge of Christmas cards will spur them to defend Christians' free-speech rights in the public sqare.
We FReepers defer to the Good Book's way of phrasing the imperative: "overcome evil with good."
. . . but Christmas cards could also be an example of divine retribution, no?
They will require that Kwaanza be given equal time?!
Or maybe the most politically correct equality of all: Chanuramakwanzmas.
Yeah..........we can mail them lumps of coal with a return address of Santa Clause..........and the North Pole
LOL! Never heard of such a thing...:)
You're a little too hard on the ACLU. They're only against public expressions of Christianity. I've yet to hear that they've objected to any encroachment by islam, a real enemy of civil liberties, into the public square.
Actually, a check for $0.13 would cost them considerably more than that to process, to send a receipt for, etc.
"...You're a little too hard on the ACLU. They're only against public expressions of Christianity. I've yet to hear that they've objected to any encroachment by islam, a real enemy of civil liberties, into the public square..."
Good point!
I love it!
May I suggest that you leave off, "Wishing you a Merry Christmas" when you address your cards to the ACLU, so that they don't know they're Christmas cards and have to open them up.
The address for the ACLU is correct. I looked it up.
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