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Rhode Island governor gets rid of capitol 'Christmas' tree
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Posted on 12/01/2011 6:37:50 AM PST by Gopher Broke

A battle is brewing in Rhode Island and you can weigh in with other Americans to stop this War on Christmas!

November 30, 2011

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee does not like a Christmas tree being called a Christmas tree. So he is changing it. According to FoxNews, Gov. Chafee has said the Christmas tree in the State House Rotunda in Providence, as of this year, will be called a "holiday" tree.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: afa; antichristmas; chafee; christmas; lincolnchafee; rhodeisland; ri; rino; waronchristmas
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1 posted on 12/01/2011 6:37:54 AM PST by Gopher Broke
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To: Gopher Broke

Ridiculous.

These devil worshipers in government will pay. God created humans, not the other way around.

Holiday tree, horsefeathers.


2 posted on 12/01/2011 6:39:38 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Gopher Broke

This happens every year when some dipstick like Chaffee would rather offend a million Christians rather than offend one atheist or Muslim.

Governor Chaffee should have just kept his stupid mouth shut and gone along with the program.

It’s Christmas Chaffee , you idiot. It’s been Christmas for a long time and some fool like Chaffee isn’t going to change that./


3 posted on 12/01/2011 6:42:39 AM PST by Venturer
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Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree. No wonder we are in such deep trouble.


4 posted on 12/01/2011 6:42:46 AM PST by napscoordinator (Anybody but Romney, Newt, Perry, Huntsman, Paul. Perry and Obama are 100 percent the same!!!!!)
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I would say the governor, a public employee works for the people and is not a dictator so the people of RI should tell the government to STFU.


5 posted on 12/01/2011 6:47:43 AM PST by edcoil (I grew up in a country that was honest, I am growing old in a country that is not. I am sorry.)
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To: napscoordinator

The tree is symptomatic of the trouble we are in.


6 posted on 12/01/2011 6:48:14 AM PST by Melchior
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To: Gopher Broke

http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147514283


7 posted on 12/01/2011 6:49:43 AM PST by Gopher Broke (Repeal Obamacare !!)
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To: napscoordinator

“Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree”.

...progressives have such a hatred for christianity and liberty they can’t control themselves. When Chaffee walks by that Christmas tree it angers him to no end.


8 posted on 12/01/2011 6:52:37 AM PST by albie
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To: Gopher Broke
It's called "Rhode Island"...not Chafee Island! He does not have the power to rename Christmas, or anything to do with it.
9 posted on 12/01/2011 6:53:27 AM PST by FrankR (What you resist...PERSISTS!)
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To: Gopher Broke
On a related note, an FR thread from a few years back....

Merry Christmas Is NOT Offensive (Rabbi Daniel Lapin Urges Respect For Christian Holiday Alert)

10 posted on 12/01/2011 6:55:33 AM PST by mewzilla (Santelli 2012)
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To: napscoordinator

Your post exhibits a monumental lack of insight.


11 posted on 12/01/2011 6:57:12 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Gopher Broke

Among the symbols of cowardice, now so rampant in this country that we are at the edge of a cliff, there is none so illustrative as a male in a man’s position stammering with political correctness.

Wimp.


12 posted on 12/01/2011 6:57:22 AM PST by stanne
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Once a moron always a moron.


13 posted on 12/01/2011 6:59:39 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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To: mewzilla

islam is a tool being used by atheists to attack Christianity.


14 posted on 12/01/2011 7:00:45 AM PST by farmguy
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To: Gopher Broke

Doesn’t Chafee have other pressing issues in Rhodent Island to be concerned about? The state is in economic turmoil and this atheist idiot focuses on denaming the ‘christ’mas tree.


15 posted on 12/01/2011 7:08:09 AM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: Gopher Broke

Start enforcing separation of church and state. Make all government employees work on Christmas Day. Until they rename Dec 25th as a newspeak term, ‘The Winter Observance Memorial Day’. Slimey creeps like Linc Chap me would go for that.


16 posted on 12/01/2011 7:14:30 AM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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And what are you going to call the menorah? A candlestick with candles? Being from RI, this Govenor is a first class jerk. Hung on to the coatails of his father who was a Republican but was a Democrap from day l.


17 posted on 12/01/2011 7:19:42 AM PST by LilRhody
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And what are you going to call the menorah? A candlestick with candles? Being from RI, this Govenor is a first class jerk. Hung on to the coatails of his father who was a Republican but was a Democrap from day l.


18 posted on 12/01/2011 7:19:47 AM PST by LilRhody
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To: napscoordinator

“Silliness. We have real problems and people are arguing over a name of a tree. No wonder we are in such deep trouble.”

You’re missing the larger picture of what’s going on here. This country’s turning it’s back on God by rejecting Jesus Christ IS the problem from which everything else ails us. Whether or not to call it a Christmas tree or call to eliminate ‘In God We Trust’ on our coins is representative of this.


19 posted on 12/01/2011 7:21:43 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Stop feeding the beast; if they don't say "Merry Christmas", don't buy.)
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will be called a “holiday” tree.

And what holiday has a tree?

Christmas.

Go figure.


20 posted on 12/01/2011 7:22:41 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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