President Barack Obama’s Department of Veterans Affairs has banned employees at its facility in Salem, Virginia, from saying “Merry Christmas” to veterans.
It started as a broader ban that included Christmas trees. Federal law recognizes Christmas as an official federal holiday (5 U.S.C. § 6103) and provides federal employees with a paid day off to celebrate the Christian belief in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
Every year, a White House Christmas Tree and a Capitol Christmas Tree grace those two respective buildings in Washington D.C., and a National Christmas Tree is also officially lighted outdoors for the public to enjoy during that time of year.
Yet the “Executive Leadership Team” at the Salem VA Medical Center banned Christmas trees, as well as other Christian speech and celebrations. As reported by local media, an email sent by senior staff to the center’s employees reads in part:
…Public areas may only be decorated in a manner that is celebratory of the winter season. Displays must not promote any religion. Please note that trees (regardless of the types of ornaments used) have been deemed to promote the Christian religion and will not be permitted in any public areas this year.
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This is a joke. No way this will happen.
ReplyDeletePrayer rugs, and beads for Ramadon are fine though.
ReplyDeleteMuslim prick.
ReplyDelete10:08...it is not a joke and
ReplyDeleteObama is preventing any Christian Christmas cards to be mailed to and from troops....The Pentagon is enforcing this
If I want to mail a Christian Christmas Card to any solider, I will do it, and it will also say Merry Christmas all over it.
ReplyDeleteThis POSPOTUS - the worst leader any country has ever had!
ReplyDeleteBecause you are way too stupid to see it on your own, let me spell it out for all you ignorant liberals who voted for this imposter twice-YOU HAVE ELECTED THE ENEMY! Con't come begging me for some collard greens when the SHTF-you will find no mercy here.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to celebrate christmas by decorating a tree and burning a quran. The veterans aught to raise hell about this .
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