Much like the Christmas shopping season, the ACLU's War on Christmas begins earlier and earlier every year. This year in Fort Collins, Colorado, the city council decided to revise their policies to honor appropriately the holiday that almost ninety percent of America celebrates as Christmas. A task force was drawn up, given their task, and put to work.
Like most task forces set up by governing bodies, the result is only as good as the people you put in charge. In this case, the head of the ACLU in Fort Collins was tasked with running the committee. The result was obviously predictable.
The task force recommended no Christmas lights, no recognition of Christmas, no use of the colors red and green, no Christmas trees, and to otherwise squelch anything even remotely connected to Christmas. Instead, they suggested decorations of icicles and prominent use of the color brown.
At the city council meeting to vote on the proposal, hundreds of people showed up to voice their concern -- instead of the 10-15 people who usually show up -- and the proposal was shot down 6-1.
The ACLU uses intimidation to achieve victories that even the courts won't provide. By intimidating local officials with the threat of the ACLU, many simply cave and give the ACLU what they want. It is telling indeed that the Fort Collins ACLU head was in charge of this task force. In this case, it was the vigorous opposition of the local people -- combined with the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) -- that prevented the suppression of Christmas.
While this latest battle in the War on Christmas has subsided, the removal of the battle from the people to lawyers and courtrooms, and the fact that free expression of Christianity is under fire by the ACLU, should make us all think. This year, we can at least be thankful those who celebrate Christmas can still do so publicly.
Article provided by John Bambenek, and the Blogger News Network.
Article edited by America's News Today.
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