Trump panders to evangelical leaders by promising to force store clerks to say ‘Merry Christmas’
Donald Trump greeted religious right leaders by asking not what Christianity could do for them but boasting about what evangelical voters had done for him.
“Christianity, I owe so much to it in so many ways, through life, through having incredible children, through so many other things,” Trump said. “But I also owe it, frankly, from standing here because the evangelical vote was mostly gotten by me. If you remember, I went to South Carolina, and I was going to be beaten — very heavy evangelical state — and I was going to be beaten by (Sen. Ted) Cruz or somebody because he had very strong with the evangelicals (vote), and I ended up getting massive majorities on the evangelical vote. Everybody said, ‘What’s going on? How did Trump do that? And then I went elsewhere and, and I won the whole South and heavy evangelical and Christian vote, and frankly, a Jewish vote, right, where we had Jewish population.”
Trump launched a broadside in the so-called “war on Christmas” Tuesday afternoon at the event organized by the anti-LGBT groups Family Research Council, Vision America and AFA Action.
“I’m a tremendous believer, and we’re going to straighten it out,” Trump said. “You know, oftentimes at some of my rallies I’ll have 25,000 (or) 35,000 people more, and I say in a joking fashion — but boy, do I mean it, we’re going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”
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once on the "true meaning" of Christmas so I briefly told him what it was.
When I was a clerk I just smiled sweetly when people insisted on wishing me a blessed day - or started ranting about something. Off the clock I'm more honest but not very argumentative.
Since the Winter Solstice started it all I think it should be honored. 
Hindu, Zoroastrians, Moslems, Shinto even atheist being forced to cow tow to Government imposed Christian mantras.
Yup, forcing people to say stuff they don't want to say, is as bad as inhibiting free speech.
Trump's idea sounds good to me. 
