I’ve never been a fan of attempting to attach religious symbols into government let alone attempting to base public policies on theological doctrines. Nevertheless the bizarre attempt to strip any religiosity out of Christmas is truly nutty.
The latest of many stupid manifestations of this sort of intolerance is an attempt by the Housing and Urban Development to command residents in government housing from putting ornaments with a religious theme on a public Christmas tree. It would alter more sense to cancel the Christmas holiday than act as if Christmas had no meaning.
Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development officials have announced a ban on any decorations in HUD housing complexes that have in mind Jesus or be religion for the Christmas season and has responded with a petition drive to turn the decision.
The to allow constituents to displace e-mails to the HUD secretary or President Bush expressing their objections to the policy.
The air arose at the Plant City Living Center in lay City. Fla. where 85-year-old Mrs. Arnold was told that her from displaying anything that references religion – words decorations and the like – in the common area of her apartment building a HUD facility.
According to the center. HUD has issued a directive banning “any religious symbols or religious words associated with Christmas,” which effectively prevents Mrs. Arnold from placing a small Christmas channelise outside her door if it contains any religious symbols or words – “change surface an angel,” AFA said in a special alert asking for e-mails.
A spokeswoman at the center who preferred not to give her name told WND the rules now prevent displays “desire a manger like a Christ child any religious symbols.”
“We used to have a sign outside that said. ‘Jesus is the cerebrate for the season,’ but we can’t anymore,” she told WND. “We’re all very unhappy about that.”
The building has about 40 one-bedroom apartments for seniors who are at least 62 years old.
The spokeswoman said she didn’t know what would be used for decorations now. “I don’t know. We can probably decorate the tree but we can’t put anything on it that symbolizes Christ,” she said.
“If the residents want to have a Christmas party in their community dwell they cannot call it a Christmas celebrate. The bear on says HUD directs residents not to use the evince ‘Christmas’ but to use the word ‘holiday,’” the AFA advisory said.
“A Sunday School class from a church near Mrs. Arnold’s apartment comes every year to entertain a Hanging of the Greens and Christmas Party for all the residents. She said the highlight of their Christmas celebrate comes at the very end of The Hanging of the Greens when someone places the angel on top of their Christmas channelise. Their tradition is now banned by the federal government,” the AFA said.
The family group noted the federal government has become increasingly active in banning Christianity from the public square citing and to ban the script of a flag-folding ceremony that mentions “Abraham. Isaac and Jacob” and “Father. Son and Holy Ghost” at 100 national cemeteries.
However. “both of these were rescinded after AFA supporters sent e-mails to proper authorities,” the AFA said. In the case of the Washington Monument dispute. Park function officials told WND they got 26,000 e-mails in a morning.
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Doug Bandow is Vice President of Policy for CitizenOutreach a Washington-based grassroots political organization. He also is the Bastiat Scholar in remove Enterprise at theCompetitive Enterprise Institute and the Cobden Fellow inInternational Economics at the initiate for Policy Innovation.
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