"Santa Claus Will Take You to Hell"

[randy_byers]

Well, the battle of the religious displays at the Capitol here just gets better and better. "The Department of General Administration, which oversees the Capitol grounds, declared a moratorium Friday on any pending and future requests to put up displays in the Capitol building."

This all started when a Nativity scene was put up on the Capitol grounds and a hardcore atheist group (I think we need a new name for this type of atheist -- perhaps "anti-theist"?) requested their own display which says, amongst other things, "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."

Well, the requests for displays have flooded in since then. Now the jackasses from the Westboro "God Hates Fags" Baptist Church have gotten involved, requesting a display that says "Santa Claus Will Take You to Hell" and "Santa's to blame for the dead soldier's fate." (One of their hobbyhorses is that US soldiers are dying in Iraq because the US condones homosexuality.)

Says the Seattle Times: "The moratorium applies to Westboro's application, along with pending requests for a Buddhist display, a Jewish banner, a mannequin of Satan holding a statement against atheists and wishing them a merry Christmas, an aluminum pole in celebration of the invented holiday of Festivus, and a 'Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Display.' A menorah is still scheduled to go up Dec. 21, since that application had already been approved."

I actually think the moratorium is kind of bogus and they should let the shit fly. Where's the harm in it?

Comments

''Merry Christmas from the Klan.''

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! Although I don't know, is the Klan more awful than the Westboro Baptist Church at this point? And I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never even considered how making Christmas a federal holiday is a bit of a problem. Yikes. I'd be happy to switch the holiday to the solstice, but I can just imagine the political shitstorm that would result if anybody actually tried to make that happen. Right up there with trying to strip "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Well, somebody should sue for it anyway. Or did somebody already try that?

Re: ''Merry Christmas from the Klan.''

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

Over the years, many parades have been canceled rather than allowing certain entries. About 25 years ago, the KKK wanted their banner to read "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas," so maybe "Merry Christmas from the Klan" is better than that.

You possibly know that "under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance (by Congress) in 1954.

Re: ''Merry Christmas from the Klan.''

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

From 1991.

Re: ''Merry Christmas from the Klan.''

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

"Dreaming of a White Christmas" is actually clever, in an evil way. Glad to see that so many people refused to play ball with them.

Re: ''Merry Christmas from the Klan.''

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

Also,

is the Klan more awful than the Westboro Baptist Church at this point?

I really don't have Dante's ability to assign the various hells these people belong in.