US House Votes to Protect Christmas Symbols
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COMMENTARY
Presented below for your consideration, two viewpoints on the 'War on Christmas.' Liberals will have you believe that within the progessive agenda, no effort is underway to secularize Christmas traditions. However, the US House voted this very day to protect the very Christmas symbols that have been vanishing under the weight of the holiday's secularization.
The truth probably lies somewhere between liberal and conservative camps. So, I'll explain it in such basic terms such that any liberal and conservative can understand: There is about as much a concerted progressive agenda to secularize Christmas as there is a vast right wing conspiracy.
Here again, you just cannot have it both ways.
NEWSBYTES
House votes for Christmas traditions
(Richmond Times-Dispatch) Dec 15, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives overwhelming adopted today a Virginian's resolution to protect Christmas trees, Santa Claus, candy canes, and other symbols and traditions of Christmas.
By a vote of 401 to 22, lawmakers endorsed the "sense of the House" resolution proposed by Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-1st District, as Congress neared its winter recess. A resolution doesn't bear the same weight as a law but it stirred sharp debate. Read full story.
O'Reilly: "War" on Christmas part of "secular progressive agenda" that includes "legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage"
(Media Matters) In the latest instance of decrying the purported "war" on Christmas, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "it's all part of the secular progressive agenda ... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square." He then added: "[B]ecause if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious-based, usually." O'Reilly's comments came during a November 18 discussion on his television show, The O'Reilly Factor, with guest and fellow Fox News host John Gibson about "which American stores are using 'Christmas' in advertising this Christmas season and which are not." Gibson is the author of The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.
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COMMENTARY Presented below for your consideration, two viewpoints on the 'War on Christmas.' Liberals will have you believe that within the progessive agenda, no effort is underway to secularize Christmas traditions. However, the US House voted this very day to protect the very Christmas symbols that have been vanishing under the weight of the holiday's secularization.
The truth probably lies somewhere between liberal and conservative camps. So, I'll explain it in such basic terms such that any liberal and conservative can understand: There is about as much a concerted progressive agenda to secularize Christmas as there is a vast right wing conspiracy.
Here again, you just cannot have it both ways.
NEWSBYTES
House votes for Christmas traditions
(Richmond Times-Dispatch) Dec 15, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives overwhelming adopted today a Virginian's resolution to protect Christmas trees, Santa Claus, candy canes, and other symbols and traditions of Christmas.
By a vote of 401 to 22, lawmakers endorsed the "sense of the House" resolution proposed by Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-1st District, as Congress neared its winter recess. A resolution doesn't bear the same weight as a law but it stirred sharp debate. Read full story.
O'Reilly: "War" on Christmas part of "secular progressive agenda" that includes "legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage"
(Media Matters) In the latest instance of decrying the purported "war" on Christmas, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "it's all part of the secular progressive agenda ... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square." He then added: "[B]ecause if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious-based, usually." O'Reilly's comments came during a November 18 discussion on his television show, The O'Reilly Factor, with guest and fellow Fox News host John Gibson about "which American stores are using 'Christmas' in advertising this Christmas season and which are not." Gibson is the author of The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.
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Tags: current events, politics, News, Conservatives, Christian, liberal, secular, Christmas
posted by Steven Moyer at 8:53 PM
2 Comments:
You're totally overlooking the Rght Wing Conspiracy to Wage War on Christmas.
Please explain and attribute.
I can find nothing to reference to a "Right Wing War on Christmas."
There are some name-calling editorials, such as "How right-wing grinches try to steal Christmas," but those folks typically just try to spin the issue back onto conservatives and offer no real insight on the issues.
My point is if you accept the fact that there is a right wing conspiracy, you have to accept the fact that there is also a liberal conspiracy.
To me, it's all just so much foolishness when the effort expended on the argument can easily go to better use.
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