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Newspaper rejects ad over the word "Christian"
Fox News ^ | July 29, 2016 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/01/2016 3:16:07 PM PDT by kevcol

The advertisement read: "Store closing sale – Cedar Springs Christian Store – Clinton Highway location – All merchandise, fixtures, slat walls must go. Sale through August 13, phone 865.947.XXX."

Mrs. McGinnis placed the ad on July 26. It was supposed to run on July 28. But when she opened up the newspaper – the ad was nowhere to be found.

So Mrs. McGinnis phoned the newspaper and spoke with a classified ad employee.

"She said our ad did not run because it contained an offensive word," she told me. "I asked what that offensive word was and she said the offensive word was 'Christian.'"

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: antichristianbigotry; christian; knoxville; newspapers; religiousliberty; waronchristianity
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(at the article link) - check out the reaction and BS the paper puts out put out the fire.
1 posted on 08/01/2016 3:16:07 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Again, the double standard. Trump at least supports religious liberty and says he’ll appoint justices who will, as well.


2 posted on 08/01/2016 3:18:59 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: kevcol; Lera; SkyPilot; 444Flyer; StoneWall Brigade

When folks like this become disciples of the Antichrist, don’t weep for them.

They have an agenda. They’ll get what they want.

For a short time.


3 posted on 08/01/2016 3:19:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: kevcol

“system failure” my azz


4 posted on 08/01/2016 3:20:04 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: kevcol

This is a blatant civil rights violation - discrimination based on religion.

When is the lawsuit going to begin?


5 posted on 08/01/2016 3:20:16 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: kevcol

This occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee


6 posted on 08/01/2016 3:21:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: kevcol

Just say “Religious store. The one with the bread and wine. Not the one with the goat leggings or the head loppings.”


7 posted on 08/01/2016 3:22:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: kevcol

FWIW, here is the publisher’s letter on this issue.

http://www.knoxnews.com/topstories/letter-from-our-president-and-publisher-38cdd829-afe5-128b-e053-0100007f69eb-388740501.html


8 posted on 08/01/2016 3:22:26 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: kevcol

Sue the bastards for discrimination. Then bury them with First Amendments.


9 posted on 08/01/2016 3:26:32 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: NohSpinZone

Nice letter. Guess they did the right thing.


10 posted on 08/01/2016 3:29:35 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: kevcol
The Great Egalitarian FOX NEWS wouldn't let me post a comment but here's what I would have posted:
I'm not a Christian. I'm Jewish. (reasonably observant too)

I just want to state that I have NEVER considered the word "Christian" in any way offensive or negative. On the contrary, Christians have been responsible for much of the beauty and greatness that is Western Civilization.

My problem is with anyone and every one who considers the word offensive.

ML/NJ
11 posted on 08/01/2016 3:30:40 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: NohSpinZone

Technical snafu. Sure.


12 posted on 08/01/2016 3:31:28 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: kevcol

The huge chain of Gannett-owned papers has a deserved reputation for being hostile to any ideas that disagree with its ultra-liberal ownership. I would never subscribe to or buy advertising in any Gannett paper. Sadly they went on a buying spree years ago and now frequently monopolize the newspaper market in many places, including mine. I won’t touch USA Today with a 10-foot pole.


13 posted on 08/01/2016 3:36:14 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: plain talk

Start organizing the churches.


14 posted on 08/01/2016 3:36:45 PM PDT by RossA
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To: SaveFerris

They really need to take them to court


15 posted on 08/01/2016 3:36:54 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: kevcol
"We had a system failure, which resulted in a classified ad for Cedar Springs getting hung up in our front end system,” they wrote in a statement posted online.

Notice how they still refuse to use the word Christian.

16 posted on 08/01/2016 3:37:14 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kevcol
The mantras of "diversity is our strengthen " and "tolerance" were slogans and subterfuge designed to fool, guilt, lower the shields of discernment by Christians.

Once those shields came down, Christians we noted were quickly targeted for IN-tolerance, persecution, prejudice, and bigotry and sued by the ACLU and SPLC.

The End Game: Eventual extermination by the secular humanist pagans and their "My-Enemy-Of-My-Enemy-Is-My-Friend" allies -- which include Muslims, Marxists, Satanists, Atheists, etc.

NOT gonna end well. The resolution will come very soon.

17 posted on 08/01/2016 3:51:26 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: kevcol

Oh boy...such hate coming from those Christians!

John 15:18
John 16:33
Proverbs 29:27
1 John 3:1


18 posted on 08/01/2016 3:57:58 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: HangUpNow

Well said about diversity and tolerance being a giant hustle pull the wool over the eyes of Christians. It is now selectively applied in order to shut down only the Judeo-Christian influence in Western societies while every one else can come together in open-mindedness and tolerance and diversity in their world government common denominator of delusion all predicated on their hatred of Judeo-Christianity. It truly is a spiritual war just many refuse to see or believe it.


19 posted on 08/01/2016 4:00:28 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: kevcol

“Christian” is offensive but “Muslim” is just wonderful. This country is so in the toilet.


20 posted on 08/01/2016 4:00:30 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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