Tell-tale signs that Christmas season is here:
- A sleigh-load of snowflake stories about harrowing encounters with nativity scenes in public places;
- Creative efforts to craft generic names for what deplorables call Christmas trees; and
- The left’s annual ritual to “bleachbit” the Christ child from Christmas.
Every Christmas season is replete with examples of nose-out-of-joint Scrooges who won’t rest until they take the lump of coal from their own dark hearts and leave it in their neighborhood’s Christmas stocking.
It isn’t enough these grinches shun Christmas personally — they insist on trying to ruin it for everyone else.
Last year around this time the small Indiana town of Knightstown was forced to remove a cross from the top of a large evergreen tree in the town square because the threat of an ACLU lawsuit.
A Christmas tree had been placed in the town square for decades, but the town was ordered to remove it when one distressed resident who drove through town daily was “forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact” with the cross on top of the tree.
We all have our crosses to bear – or not.
Two years ago an Elkhart, Indiana high school was banned by a judge from re-enacting the nativity scene using live performers — something the community had been doing for decades.
The school eventually compromised by using mannequins instead of students, but residents of the northern Indiana community recognized the real dummies in their annual Christmas reenactment.
Every Yuletide it’s déjà vu voodoo: Christian-phobic zealots like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) harass faith-based communities with limited funding to fight back.
The holiday carping against Christmas traditions by such groups is always the same: They object to public-displayed nativity scenes; they rename pine trees non-offensive names like “holiday trees;” and they protest against any Christmas song and imagery with a religious context.
These Christmas bigots think that acknowledging Christ in Christmas will make us a theocracy similar to Iran — except with more fa-la-la-la-la.
Observing the holiday set aside to celebrate the birth of God’s son is OK with these paragons of civil virtue – as long as we exclude God the Father and hide the baby Jesus away in a manger outside public view.
We Hoosiers pride ourselves on common sense solutions, and here’s one for blog readers:
Let’s allow towns and cities who honor and respect Christmas traditions to designate themselves “Christmas Sanctuaries” or Constitution Sanctuaries.”
Presently there are over 300 sanctuary cities, counties and states in the United States that protect criminal aliens from deportation.
Sanctuary cities collect millions in federal funding while consistently dissing federal law. If these “sanctuaries” can ignore federal law, surely cities and towns wanting to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas with traditional symbols of the season can ignore threats from whiners like the ACLU and the FFRF.
These new sanctuary cities could host traditional Christmas celebrations on public and school property free of litigation. Christmas carols could be sung again loud and off-key at school pageants. Merry Christmas salutations could be openly exchanged without requiring offenders to don the scarlet letter “C.”
Christmas sanctuary communities would provide real safe spaces for those who love Christmas, religious liberty and American freedom.
The Declaration of Independence says our rights come from our Creator. If our elected officials are unable or unwilling to protect our religious liberty, then what could be more American than a grassroots effort by hundreds of communities tired of political correctness to reclaim their public squares?
The original version of this post was published Dec 20, 2016 in LifeZette.
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Copyright 2017, Dean A. George©
I would love to see the Christmas Sanctuary City idea take off.
You and me both. I know of one community in Michigan that was told 2-3 years ago to take down a cross on public property and they told the ACLU to take a hike. Mary & I were there in June and it’s still up!