Kids cards for veterans refused; ‘Merry Christmas,’‘God bless you’ not allowed!

[Forever_frost]

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Kids cards for veterans refused; ‘Merry Christmas,’‘God bless you’ not allowed!

December 24, 2013 by Michael Dorstewitz 16 Comments
Students at a North Texas elementary school got a lesson in political correctness when they discovered that a Dallas VA hospital doesn’t allow the phrase “Merry Christmas” on Christmas cards sent to veterans. Um, they’re Christmas cards.

The kids at Grace Academy in Prosper spent Friday making the cards with plans to hand deliver them on Monday, according to Dallas-Fort Worth Fox WDFW.

“I’m hoping that it might make their day because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody to celebrate Christmas with and I’d like them to know they’ve not been forgotten and somebody wanted to say thank you,” said fourth grader Gracie Brown to the local Fox station.

Gracie and her brother, Luke, each made Christmas cards for the vets, and proudly showed them off.

“It includes ‘Merry Christmas,’ and when you open it up, it says ‘Thank you for your service’ and the American flag,” said Luke.

But their excitement over doing a good deed was short-lived when they were told that their cards wouldn’t pass muster — no “God bless you,” no religious references, not even a “Merry Christmas” are allowed.

Gracie and Luke’s mom, Andrea, was incensed.

“This wasn’t the country I grew up in, when you couldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’ you couldn’t say ‘God bless you’ or reference any scripture,” she said.

Susan Chapman, a math teacher at Grace Academy, is married to a veteran and came up with the idea.

“It really didn’t occur to me there would be a problem with distributing Christmas cards,” Chapman told the station.

She got the bad news when she called Monday morning to schedule the delivery.

“I told him my students made cards, we’d like to bring them down for the veterans,” said Chapman. “And he said, ‘That’s great. We’re thrilled to have them, except the only thing is, we can’t accept anything that says ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘God bless you’ or any scriptural references because of all the red tape.’”

I agree with Gracie and Luke’s mom — this isn’t the country I grew up in either.

Watch the report from WDFW.

[Denny]

Anything attached to the Federal Government sucks AIDS infested dick. At least they are consistant.

[talisman]

Nothing about Christmas cards in the Constitution. Sorry.

[The King]

The Dallas VA hospital should be concerned only with patient medical care rather than pathetically attempting to serve as religious police.

[Country cracker]

I'm so sick of all this shit. You can't do a damn thing without some pussy crying about it. Just be who you are and if someone doesn't like it, fuckem in the neck!

[Gtracer]

I'm so sick of all this shit. You can't do a damn thing without some pussy crying about it. Just be who you are and if someone doesn't like it, fuckem in the neck!

"I am offended that they are offended" I am just waiting for some group to use that one

[Forever_frost]

Nothing about Christmas cards in the Constitution. Sorry.

Which is why it's not a federal agency sending it, but rather citizens. The constitution is a check on federal power, not the people.

[The King]

Frost has hereby schooled talisman in this thread.

[talisman]

Which is why it's not a federal agency sending it, but rather citizens. The constitution is a check on federal power, not the people.

It still doesn't say anything about Christmas Cards. If it isn't written in the Constitution specifically, I'm afraid it isn't allowed.

[talisman]

Frost has hereby schooled talisman in this thread.

Constitution doesn't say anything about Frost. He doesn't exist.

[slow99]

Constitution doesn't say anything about Frost. He doesn't exist.

Sounds unconstitutional.

[Forever_frost]

Sounds unconstitutional.

Very.

Tali,

And I'm constitutional. The raising and supporting of the ARMY. Still paid by the DoD, still have an Department of the Army ID card and still sport a DoD sticker on my window permitting me access to base and the PX.

Do you even Constitution brah?

[talisman]

I was born in Concord on Teddy Roosevelt's birthday in the bicentennial year. I win.

[F8LSVT]

Further proof the Dallas VA is the gigantic sespool I knew it was. Shit if someone didn't like their card wad it up and throw it in the trash! Problem solved! Also im pretty sure the Constitution doesn't say private citizens have to censor their Christmas cards to Veterans. I could see if the Govt' were the ones passing them out. But a bunch of kids? Come on.

[Forever_frost]

Another day, another VA hospital bans religious liberties under a new Obama Administration policy.

Yesterday, we reported on a North Texas VA hospital that banned elementary school students from sending Christmas cards to wounded veterans.

Today we present a new disgrace courtesy of the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., which told a group of high school students they could not sing most Christmas carols to patients.

Students from the Alleluia Community School were banned from singing any religious-themed Christmas carols to patients including “Silent Night,” “Joy to the World” and “O Come All Ye Faithful.”

Instead, when they arrived to perform, the students were given a list of 12 Christmas songs provided by the hospital’s pastoral service that had been “deemed appropriate for celebration within the hearing range of all veterans.”

In other words, all secular, nothing sacred, as CBS Atlanta reported.

“Military service veterans, male and female, represent people of all faiths,” hospital spokesman Brian Rothwell said in a statement to the newspaper. “It is out of respect for every faith that The Veterans Administration gives clear guidance on what ‘spiritual care’ is to be given and who is to give it.”

Dan Funsch, the school’s principal, said this is the first year they’ve been told not to perform religious carols.

“This is not a religious proselytizing, evangelistic issue,” he told the newspaper. “The song Joy to the World is as much a part of the holiday spirit as the Christmas tree.”

The VA said their policy is meant to welcome and respect all faiths while at the same time protecting them from “unwelcomed religious material.”

Principal Funsch said his students, on principle, decided not to comply with the government-approved list of Christmas carols and they cancelled their concert.

“From our point of view, the purpose of Christmas and its carols is to celebrate and honor the birth of Jesus, and if that goal is taken from us, it is an issue we do not want to be a part of,” he told the newspaper. “We do not think it is a good idea to systemically weed out religious Christmas songs from being sung in certain places.”

This is the Constitution on Obama: freedom from religion, unless of course that religion is Islam.

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