Posted on 12/26/2013 6:43:59 AM PST by mandaladon
AUGUSTA, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) – An Augusta hospital has adopted a new policy banning Christmas carolers from singing religious songs in public patient areas. The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center announced the new policy Monday according to the Athens-Banner Herald. “Military service veterans, male and female, represent people of all faiths,” hospital spokesman Brian Rothwell said in a statement according to Athens-Banner Herald. “It is out of respect for every faith that The Veterans Administration gives clear guidance on what ‘spiritual care’ is to be given and who is to give it.”
A group of high school students from Augusta’s Alleluia Community School were prevented from singing traditional holiday songs that honor and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ to veterans by the medical center last week. The school principal, Dan Funsch, told the newspaper that he was disappointed that the Veterans Affairs hospital’s “spiritual care” grants holiday exemption only to secular characters that make up the 12 Days of Christmas. “This is not a religious proselytizing, evangelistic issue,” Funsch explained, arguing that Christmas songs are broadcast during the holidays on area radio stations and in local retail outlets. “The song Joy to the World is as much a part of the holiday spirit as the Christmas tree.” The principal noted that the peculiar part of the policy is its recent enforcement.
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CHRISTmas is a RELIGIOUS holiday.
Isn’t that town next to Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains?
Augusta is more in the northeastern part of the state while Plains is in the southwestern part of the state.
Maps are wonderful things.
Wasn’t it also the VA that banned prayers at the funerals of Vets?
Satan lurks everywhere and takes over the minds and souls of those receptive.
“Military service veterans, male and female, represent people of all faiths,”
This is code for “to hell with you Christians, the atheists and jihadis are more important than you.
What are they afraid of? What is it in the uplifiting and joyous display of Christmas spirt makes them uncomfortable and fearful? I submit its far more than just “offending” other people’s beliefs.
People away from their families and churches at Christmas YEARN to hear and sing real Christmas carols!!!! Winter, “holiday”, and GiftMas (i.e. Santa Claus) songs just don’t fill the gap!!!!
Liberals and commies are cruel, aren’t they?
John 14:27 - New International Version (NIV)
" Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
All of you are just making asses out of your selves so get a life and stay out of ours.
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They will never be content to allow you live your life. Liberals want dependence and control over you whereas conservatives want personal self-reliance and individual freedom. This will never change which is why the differences between liberals and conservatives are fundamentally irreconcilable. At some point there will have to be a parting of the ways.
‘Out of respect for all faiths’——except christians.
Eff em-—do it anyway. Let them start arresting folks for singing carols.
Paint red pitch forks on the outside of any institution that shuns GOD as these demonic worshipers of satan have done here.
It is out of DISrespect for every faith Christianity that The Veterans Administration blah, blah, blah
Who would have ever thought that our military would so blatently disrespect the Christ Child and all their Christian patients.
I know that we have a muslim, anti-Christian, anti-Semite living in our White House, but this is just awful.
TRUTH TO THE TENTH POWER!
“Liberals want dependence and control over you whereas conservatives want personal self-reliance and individual freedom”
The Jezebel/Elijah dialectic... the sensual vs the spiritual....the quest for the eternal Utopia vs the internally realized Liberty the Spirit of the Lord gives....Babylon, the mother of Harlots vs “the spotless Bride of the Lamb”!
I would support a mass mutiny of religious military over this issue alone...these military can call it a “mass UNION action”...(liberals love unions...could they cope with a military that decides it will act as a union?)
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