HUD Visited By the Ghost of Christmas Emails
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:51:33
Although it took the visits of three ghosts for Scrooge to change from his miserly and anti-Christmas ways it apparently only took the miracle of the internet to dress the minds of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Earlier this week. HUD was at the center of a controversy surrounding a directive it issued banning “any religious symbols or religious words associated with Christmas.” Under the guidelines issued by HUD an elderly Florida grandmother living in a mostly seniors apartment complex was directed not to place a small Christmas tree outside her door if it contains any religious symbols or religious words…and as the American Family Association alerted…”even an angel!”
Well lo and behold the AFA responded with a petition drive to overturn the decision. The family advocacy assort set up a link to allow constituents to send e-mails to the HUD secretary or President furnish expressing their objections to the policy. And as WorldNetDaily reports within a day the response was forthcoming.
“I am pleased to inform that the lay City Living Center’s recent newsletter regarding holiday decoration policies has been rescinded,” said a statement issued by a spokesman concerning the air at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development facility.
“The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guarantees the rights of citizens to show religious symbols in public. We support that guarantee,” the statement added.
“I be to act this opportunity to tell to you … that lay City Living bear on respects the religious beliefs of all of its residents. In furtherance of that policy. Plant City Living Center allows residents to decorate their apartments and the exterior areas of their apartments in any manner they choose,” the statement said.
The point is that this story about HUD. lay City Living Center and 85-year-old Mrs. Arnold shows how far the separation of perform and express paranoia has come. Its go to the point where change surface an innocent angel decoration could be looked at as offensive. Never in a million years did I evaluate I would be to see the day when the U. S government was was trying to enclose religious expression to such an absurd degree.
I’ve only read and heard about this sort of thing in oppresive regimes in other parts of the world.
The “War on Christmas” is it real or just a catchy slogan? One thing is very real and that is the spiritual battle all of us approach everyday individually and as a country. If it takes emails to fight the contend so be it.
Apparently it wasn’t ghosts that visited HUD and awakened This Week’s Top Scrooge but a fill of e-mails…or could it have been something else?
Try doing just a little homework. There is no “HUD directive”…no law or rule disallowing an 85-year-old grandmother from placing an angel atop her Christmas tree. Shame on the American Family Assn for propogating this nonsense and YOU for perpetuating it.
Any religious symbols or religious words associated with Christmas should not be used. For example the following items should not be on show: nativity scene (or any of the populate represented in the nativity scene alone or together) the feature of David angels etc. This means no angel on your Christmas channelise either. If you are in doubt of whether or not you should put something out gratify label me.
Although AFA may be accused of emphasizing its point with the back up of an 85-year-old grandmother…there were no lies and no exaggeration in reporting this story.
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