Denver organizers of the Parade of Lights, a large & popular yearly holiday parade, have denied permission for a church group to be included in the parade. The church group planned to build its own float & sing carols.
But parade organizers said it would be offensive. A parade spokesman said, "We try to be sensitive to the fact that we are a very diverse community and a very diverse world". She said this is a holiday parade, not specifically a Christmas parade, and it's occurring during a season when many other cultures are celebrating other holidays as well. However, the president of the organizers contradicted this, saying, "The parade includes performances of Christmas songs, and parade participants saying 'Merry Christmas,' 'Happy Hanukkah,' and other holiday greetings."
In another development, the Denver mayor decided to remove a large "Merry Christmas" sign on the city hall & replace it with "Happy Holidays". He backtracked from that when he caught hell from a lot of miffed citizens.
What we have here is no less then the continuing assault on Christianity that has been waged all across the country. Contrary to the parade spokesman, the only thing offensive about the Denver Parade of Lights is the mindset that Christianity can not be tolerated. Homosexuality must be tolerated, nay, celebrated, but not Christianity.
To call the Parade of Lights a holiday parade is a politically correct way of getting around "Christmas". If it was not for Christmas, what would be the rationale for a so-called "holiday parade"? A rose by any other name is still a rose.
These politically correct buffoons are the real bigots, the real intolerant dolts when it comes to religion or at least the Christian religion. You see it more each day across the country. Some large stores are replacing "Merry Christmas" signs with "Happy Holidays", schools are replacing Christmas Break with Winter Break or Holiday Break. And the ACLU, swine that they are, are busy as Santa's elves looking into each nook & cranny for the, God forbid, slightest display of Christmas or Christianity in towns across the nation.
It is the small, soulless, secularist sector that is attempting to enforce its agenda on the rest of the nation. They are the ones American Values Under Attack finds offensive. p.s. to Denver - the Broncos suck.
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