Christmas Under Attack: A Manufactured Crisis
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Berkowitz1128.htm
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Conservative Christian fundamentalists, right wing Christian legal groups,
and most of the Fox News Channel's prime time crew are echoing variations
on the same theme: liberals are once again out to destroy Christmas.
Instead of the ancient cry that "Jews killed Christ," fundamentalist
Christians and their conservative allies are accusing liberals -- which in
those circles is often read, Jews -- for trying to remove Christmas from
the public square.
Last year the Rev. Jerry Falwell claimed "secularists" "hate Christ" and
want to "steal Christmas from America." This holiday season, Falwell's
Lynchburg, VA.-based Thomas Road Baptist Church has joined forces with a
Christian legal outfit, Liberty Counsel, for its "Friend or Foe Christmas
Campaign."
Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly -- under fire for recent explosive
comments seemingly condoning the destruction of Coit Tower, San Francisco's
monument to heroic firefighters, argued on his program that viewers should
shun stores that are "anti-Christmas."
.... a line in the sand and resist bullying tactics by the American Civil
Liberties Union, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State,
the American ...
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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