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For fear that celebrating Christmas may offend non-Christians, a bill is being introduced that would dictate the abolishment of Christmas displays and the public use of the word Christmas by certain ones in Britain’s Labour government. Apparently, the bill could cause Christmas to be altogether canceled, according to The Christian Telegraph.
The article went on to quote Monsignor Andrew Summersgill, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference as saying, “Under existing legislation, we have seen the development of a risk-averse culture with outcomes as ridiculous as reports of local authority instructing tenants to take down Christmas lights in case they might offend Muslim neighbors, or of authorities removing the word Christmas out of cultural sensitivity to everyone except Christians. If this bill is serious about equality, everything possible must be done to avoid it having a chilling effect on religious expression and practice.”
A British Christian political lobby group that is well known in Britain, The Christian Institute, has stated that several British Councils are caving and removing the reference to the word “Christmas” from their events. One specific example given was Birmingham City Council, who has, “changed the name of this year’s light-switching-on event to the generic ‘Winterval.’”
The Christian Institute has stated that the councils “are already over-zealous in applying equality laws.” They expect that the passage of this bill “will make this worse.”
One can’t help but notice a similarity here. The US has been following in the footsteps of Britain in many ways. From a socialized healthcare system, complete with rationing, "end of life counseling,” and government mandates on family affairs; to a cap and tax bill that would eventually give government the control of how warm or cool we may keep our homes and how “green” they must be, these things are only for starters. Though we haven’t gotten as far as wiping out Christmas as is apparently happening in socialist Britain; and government legislation that dictates the particulars of Christian worship services as is done in communist countries such as China; keeping silent and sitting at home on election days will bring us there far faster than we want to believe.
At a Kentucky Tea Party rally back in October, Congressman Geoff Davis mentioned some startling statistics. In 2006, "61 percent of self-identified Christian conservatives, Catholic and Protestant, stayed home. In 2008 during the presidential election, 55 percent stayed home." We can’t afford to remain silent anymore…in more ways than one!
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