This was sent to me from a friend in Texas. It is an excellent take on how Christmas and Christians have been highjacked, as we sit around taking it.
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Invoking Inclusivity To
Neuter Christmas
December 7, 2022
Catholic League president Bill
Donohue comments on attempts to weaken the significance of Christmas:
Many demographic groups have
celebratory events, and some even enjoy a holiday to commemorate their special
day. In the spirit of diversity, these groups should be allowed to participate
in their events without others seeking to crash them in the name of
inclusivity.
It’s really a very simple
principle. If those not associated with an event are allowed to hijack it—so as
to draw attention to their own cause or group—they would effectively neuter its
raison d’être.
Those bent on diluting the
meaning of Christmas are very good at playing this dishonest game. For example,
over the past few decades there has been a push to give equal recognition to
Eastern religions in the month of December. Any month could have been chosen,
but they chose December for obvious reasons. This kind of contrived competition
is intentionally meant to undermine the uniqueness of Christmas.
The latest attempt to subvert
Christmas is coming from the LGBT crowd, clearly the most narcissistic element
in society. Never satisfied with having days—even months—set aside in recognition
for who they are, they have decided to invade Christmas by flashing their drag
queens. Their target audience is children.
A controversy emerged last
year in Taylor, Texas when drag queens jumped aboard a Pride float dancing and
lip syncing to Christmas carols beneath a glittering rainbow arch. After a
priest objected, making his case to the ministers who ran the Christmas parade,
the Protestant clergy took his side, and changed their rules, saying all floats
must “not conflict with traditional and biblical family values.”
The issue didn’t go away this
year, tearing the residents apart.
A spokeswoman for the city
defended the inclusion of the drag queens saying, “We couldn’t co-sponsor an
event that wasn’t open to everybody in the city.” She obviously did not think
this through.
The Christmas parade
organizers never said that only some people can participate. The only caveat,
which is necessitated by the very meaning of the parade, is that everyone
respect “traditional and biblical family values.” Gay floats with drag queens
are not there to honor these values—they are there to compete with, if not
eviscerate, them.
Sometimes an analogy helps to
understand what’s at stake.
New York City has a Salute to
Israel parade each year. Would it make any sense, given the name of the parade,
to allow Palestinian terrorists to march with a banner, “Death to Israel”?
Another supporter of the drag
queens in the Christmas parade said she has a message for the ministers: “You
don’t get to decide who celebrates Christmas. You are creating an environment
of hate and fear, that is what leads men to commit mass murders.”
Leaving aside the deranged
remark about mass murderers, the ministers do, in fact, get to decide who
celebrates Christmas. It’s their parade.
Who gets to decide who
celebrates Gay Pride parades? Those who sponsor them? Or everyone else,
including those who want to ban them?
Martin Luther King Day
excludes racists. President’s Day includes only presidents, past and present.
St. Patrick’s Day honors the patron saint of one country, namely Ireland. At a
minimum, Mother’s Day excludes fathers and Father’s Day excludes mothers.
Memorial Day excludes the living, and those who did not die for their country.
Labor Day is for workers only.
Yom Kippur excludes non-Jews. Columbus Day pays tribute to Columbus. Veteran’s
Day excludes those who never served. Hanukkah is not for Christians. Christmas
is not for non-Christians. The only two holidays that recognize
everyone—without diluting their meaning—are the 4th of July and Thanksgiving
(fortunately, America haters usually exclude themselves).
In other words, holidays, and
other special days, acknowledge our diversity. That is why those who try to jam
celebrations that are extrinsic to these events, in the name of inclusion, need
to be defeated. Their intolerance should not be tolerated.
E-mail: pr@catholicleague.org
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