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Religious Right's Claims of A 'War on Christmas' Thinner Than Cheap
Wrapping Paper, Says Americans United

Wednesday, December 21 2005 @ 10:42 AM EST

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AU: Examples of Hostility Toward Christmas Melt Under Scrutiny

AU via BBSNews 2005-12-21 -- Religious Right groups and their allies in the
right-wing media insist that a “war on Christmas” is under way in America
but a new analysis of alleged examples of bias against Christmas shows more
hype than hard facts, says Americans United for Separation of Church and
State.

Americans United staff members researched the “war on Christmas” incidents
cited most frequently by Religious Right leaders and found them to be based
in myth, not fact. For details, read the AU report , “The Religious Right’s
Phony ‘War on Christmas’: Mything In Action.”
http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=resources_xmas_tales&JServS...ionIdr0


“This isn’t a war on Christmas it’s not even a skirmish,” said the Rev.
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “When the facts are
exposed, the Religious Right’s ‘war on Christmas’ melts faster than a
snowman on an 80-degree day.”
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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
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm

The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]

HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
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[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]

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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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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

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"The Fool" <kands00.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1135260094.208091.98730@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=resources_xmas_tales&JServSe
> ssionIdr005=0479x06w91.app1b

Christian is a religious term; liberal a political one.This should be
obvious to anyone who thinks about it, but the political right has
deliberately confused pious and gullible people to follow the religious
right and do their bidding.

It is obvious to me and has been for a long time that the so called leaders
of the religious right are nothing more than dupes of the political right,
recruited for the purpose of getting their adherents to vote against their
economic self-interest.