City renames 2 holidays deemed culturally insensitive

The city of Bloomington, Indiana, has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day because the names imply a cultural insensitivity, according to the Bloomington Herald-Times.

The new, more politically-correct names will help make the holidays more inclusive, the mayor said.

The change was made Friday by Mayor John Hamilton, who sent a memo to city employees. More From LifeZette.com

"We are terrifically proud of our diverse workforce at the city," Hamilton wrote. "That diversity makes us stronger and more representative of the public we proudly serve. These updated names for two days of well-merited time off is another way we can demonstrate our commitment to inclusivity."

The Herald-Times reports that "all city employees receive paid time off for Columbus Day, a federal holiday ... and Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday. In the future, the city will be calling these paid days off 'Fall Holiday' and 'Spring Holiday.'"

Good Friday is not a federal holiday but is observed by many Christians as the day Jesus Christ was crucified by the Romans.

Columbus Day is a federal holiday noting the arrival of the Italian explorer in the Americas, on Oct. 12, 1492. Columbus Day has come under fire from liberals who claim the discovery of the Americas by Europeans led to centuries of oppression of Native Americans.

Dissing and dismantling the holiday became more a left-wing cause when the late Howard Zinn, a political science professor at Boston University, spent the first chapter of his 1980 book, "A People's History of the United States," flaying Columbus.

"To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to de-emphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves -- unwittingly -- to justify what was done," Zinn wrote in his celebrated left-wing tome.

When we have finished taking our nation back, we will reverse all this iniquitous nonsense and once again soar and ascend as America the Beautiful.

It will all have been a dark, terrible nightmare.

Joyfully, America is awake now!

This hideous nightmare began when the spoiled, overindulged children and grandchildren of the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and the women who built the airplanes of World War II sashayed onto the polished dance floor mindlessly chanting: "Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll" and "If it feels good do it," mocking and scorning those who had polished their dance floor and provided them with lovely, velvet slippers.

This was the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, the open eruption of decadence in America.

Thanks to God, millions of Americans still had their hobnail boots and revered their forefathers and trusted God, and finally in 2016, the decadence was repudiated with the election of one of them who had--the great hero, still ascendant himself, still wearing his hobnail boots, still revering those who came before him: Donald Trump--

--and, thanks be to God, America was saved!

This Thanksgiving, all benevolent Americans must give thanks, lovingly, wholeheartedly, and as never before, to the God of Our Fathers--the One and Only God--for our salvation and the salvation of America!

And pray for the salvation of all the people of the world.

Thank You, Our Lord!

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of my life, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen.

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