Resolution protecting Christmas introduced in the House

[onenote]

No, I'm not making this up.


https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hres637/BILLS-115hres637ih.pdf

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Freedumb caucus and teaparty folks are laughed at behind their

backs by the adults in DC.

Have been for years.

[L. Coyote]

2. From what? Profane marketing, commercialization, preachers asking for more money? Tree killers?

Therefore and here now, and henceforth, it shall be a sacrilege to kill a tree for Christ's sake.

[Demsrule86]

3. dumb as dirt....these folks in the House.

[yallerdawg]

4. Wouldn't that BE a violation of the First Amendment?

About establishing a state religion?

[J_William_Ryan]

10. Although ridiculous and moronic,

this resolution lacks the force of law.

Christmas also exists in a secular context.

But this is more stupidity from the reprehensible right.

[Mosby]

15. there is nothing secular about christmas, IMO.

[steve2470]

18. correct

You can celebrate it and never mention God, Jesus, etc but it's STILL a religious holiday for Christians.

[steve2470]

17. this is as close as it gets to Congress violating the constitution

Yes, it does not explicitly enshrine Christianity as the state religion or state church, but it comes way too close for me.

[NastyRiffraff]

5. That is just stupid

They "strongly disapprove of attempts to ban references to Christmas." By whom? Where? You go into almost any store and there are Christmas displays all around. Turn on the radio and it's 24/7 Christmas music. Christmas lights on many streets, garish Christmas displays on private houses and lawns. NOBODY is banning references to Christmas. But I suspect whoever wrote this thing is talking about Christmas displays on government property. Roy Moore would be proud.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. This one made my eyes roll so much

that I thought they might get stuck at the back of my head.

I was beginning to wonder what was happening to all the symbols of Christmas... Oh, yeah, they started appearing in fucking OCTOBER. So yeah, we need a resolution protecting Christmas... because it didn't start soon enough? How about if we just leave the decorations up all year?

[Dirty Socialist]

7. There should be counter legislation

Protecting the term "Happy Holidays" with Andy Williams playing in the background.

[AJT]

11. Andy Williams was extremely rightwing.

[Dirty Socialist]

12. More reason to introduce the satirical legislation

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. Helping to put "What in Christ's name was that"

back in Christmas. It's good to know they're in Washington doing the people's work.

[logosoco]

9. Interesting.

Are they doing this because of all the pagan traditions that the Christians took over and made them become part of "their" holiday? Are they worried the pagans will take them back or something?

With all the stuff going on in the world, surely the Congress of the US has better things to do than this?

[maryellen99]

13. FFS nt

[steve2470]

14. isn't there a Constitutional Amendment about this ?

Hmmmmmm. And I'm a very liberal Christian saying this. Such stupidity.

[Blindingly apparent]

16. I think it would be interesting to do a study comparing the merry Christmas only and the happy

Holidays“ crowds to determine which group makes the most charitable donations at Christmas time and the amount of individual donations I E which group adopts more Christmas angels and the quality of presents given to these angles

[gratuitous]

19. Luckily there's no pressing business before Congress at the moment

So this naked pandering to a bunch of slack-jawed Fox addicts can go forward without disrupting anything important.

[DFW]

20. I think our befuddled Republicans need a quick 180 in their priorities

They are all for protecting Christmas, which has never needed protecting, and against protecting our national parks, which should be more sacred to us all than any manger scene at their local shopping mall.

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[steve2470]

21. I agree my friend, hope you and your family are doing well! nt

[DFW]

22. Trying to make it to December 26th in one piece!

I was in Spain Monday, Germany Tuesday, France yesterday, and Sprout City today. Netherlands tomorrow.

Get the picture? There is no rest for the weary!

[BoneyardDem]

23. AHHH mentally manufactured persecution must be protected

[ProudLib72]

24. I'm all for putting the solstice back in Yule!

Let's get with the program freedumb caucus.

We pay them to sit around and come up with these asinine pieces of propaganda. Net neutrality? Bah! Tax scam? Double bah! What we need is to protect our holiday.

[BigDemVoter]

25. I saw this & just thought it was an article from

The Onion.... Goddamn.... Seriously... Goddamn...
If Christmas needs ANY protection, it needs it from these faux, retail-oriented fuck buckets...

And speaking of religious holidays, why in the FUCK should any non-Christian give 2 shits about Christmas?

[gopiscrap]

26. are you fucking kidding me?

that makes me hate Christmas all that much more

[gibraltar72]

27. Bah Humbug!