Posted on 09/30/2009 2:37:59 PM PDT by machogirl
The Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to Governor Brewer and other officials saying that it goes against the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. By KFYI News
(KFYI News) Federal and Arizona officials, including Governor Brewer, were sent a letter by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) to stop enforcing a requirement banning kids from creating ornaments with religious themes for the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree. Click here to read the entire letter.
Arizona was given the honor of providing Washington D.C. their annual Christmas tree and having schoolchildren from around the state decorate the tree with some 4,000 ornaments.
The children were given a list of specifications for how the ornaments should appear, including weight, size and how they "cannot reflect a religious or political theme."
The ADF argues in the letter that its a violation of First Amendment rights.
"Religious expression is speech and is entitled to the same level of protection as other kinds of speech."
Letter
http://www.kfyi.com/cc-common/mlib/622/09/622_1254267860.pdf
Ok let’s think about this. Whether or not a Christmas tree was really part of the actual birth of Christ(and we know it wasn’t), it has been incorporated into the Christmas holiday. The whole idea of Christmas is to celebrate Christ’s birth, therefore the Tree is a religious reference, in fact the whole idea of Christmas is a religious reference, so banning ornaments that refer to Christ is simply idiotic, not to mention it’s a violation of the first amendment, a perversion of what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote it. Could these people be any dumber or more intent on enslaving us?
Someone sent to me in an email months ago. I have it posted on my home page here.
exactly
both. dumber and enslaving.
he’s been in office 9 months. in the time required to grow a baby, he can’t find a church.
that is arrogant of the child, isn’t it? /s
the title of that sounds hilarious.
Hopefully the ADF will be successful.
Yes! Exactly!!! You got it!
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