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Because some people still think I have a newspaper, they send me OP/Ed pieces to publish. This was so stupefyingly moronic I thought I'd just post it here so Darrel & Doug would have something to roast...

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CONTACT: Call Katharine DeBrecht or asst. Tricia Erickson at:
703-356-5012 AngelPicturesLLC@aol.com

Why Liberals Loathe Christmas
by Katharine DeBrecht (792 words)

I came across a bumper sticker the other day while Christmas shopping
that proudly proclaimed “Jesus was a liberal”. Of course, this gave me
great pause. If Jesus was a liberal, you might as well forget Joseph.
Jesus would have had two mommies. He certainly would not have
advocated teaching a man to fish to eat for life, rather to give a man a fish each day because the man would never amount to anything anyway.
According to liberals, Mary should have had the right to choose.

Why would liberals invoke the name of Jesus when they strive to take
every reference to God, the Son and Holy Spirit out of the public eye,
especially at Christmastime? Why seek to squelch, via the ACLU among
others, one of the most significant Christian traditions in America,
Christmas, and yet proclaim liberals are pro-values?

The answer lies, as always with the far left, in politics. Secular
liberals abhor Christianity, and its biggest holiday which is on display
for over 2 months, precisely because it reminds them of what they are
not – pro-values, pro-morals. They realize that 95 percent of Americans
celebrate Christmas and that 90 percent recognize it as the birth of
Jesus Christ, yet that pesky moral code that comes with Christmas and
Christianity interferes with their liberal agenda.

Christmas represents a religion with a moral code. There are no
exceptions for the “if it feels good, do it” liberal crowd. Self-absorption
and instant gratification have no room when one centers his/her life
around God, and not self. Nor does it give exception for the excuse that
Hollywood continually pushes that “everyone is doing it, so it must be
OK and normal” (i.e. adultery, out-of-wedlock births, promiscuity, etc).
No one committing immoral behavior wants to be reminded that they are
doing just that. Instead they seek to belittle the religion that
requires a moral code, and elevate their own self-engineered code. How dare anyone define my morality, I define it the way I want to!

That pesky moral code also makes its way into other major tenets of
liberal philosophy. Conservative Christians look to a higher authority,
while liberals bow to government authority. According to Christians,
with God all things are possible, but according to liberals, with
bureaucrats all things are possible. Instead of advocating accountability and self-responsibility, liberals decry these very things inherent to human
dignity as mean-spirited. The free lunch trumps free will.

Christians are also pro-life and adamantly against abortion, the battle
cry of the left. While Christians view life as sacred and a gift from
God, liberals believe it inconvenient when they are too busy to take
care of it, and convenient when they want to experiment with it in a
petri dish. That pesky commandment Thou Shall Not Kill so embitters them, they rush to rid any public display of it and the other 9 commandments.

Christmas trees, or “Holiday trees” as the PC left are now demanding
everyone call them, do not offend liberals near as much as the nativity
scene. The first Holy Family goes against everything the left is
pushing these days, especially gay marriage. Whereas the traditional family, consisting of the irreplaceable mother and father, is sacred among
Christians, it is deemed unnecessary and trivial by the far left. Today’s
liberal feminists deplore the role of men and fathers; Hollywood
promotes marriage as nothing more than an annoying piece of paper and fathers as bumbling idiots.

Liberals can’t have it both ways. They can’t say that they possess
Christian values, while voting for candidates who support same sex marriage and abortion. Straight and simple:

• God is for life: Liberals are for the culture of death through
euthanasia and abortion.
• God if for marriage between one man and one woman: Liberals are for
same sex marriage
• God is for faith, liberty, and values: Liberals are for government
control and handouts
• God wants us to put Him first: Liberals are for putting themselves
first
• God sent his son, Jesus Christ, to earth wrapped in human flesh and
we celebrate this on Christmas: Liberals don’t want to admit that there
is a God because if it were true that God does exist, they would have
to change their lives and this would be highly disruptive to the way
they want to live.

It is no wonder the far left in this country single out Christians,
especially evangelicals, as a group to be reckoned with. Not only because
of their strength as a powerful voting bloc, but because their mere
adherence to a moral code leaves the left uncomfortable with their own
moral shortcomings. They are not offended by Christianity and its moral
code, they are exposed by it. Christmas just reinforces this.


About the author:

Katharine DeBrecht is an author of conservative children's books and a
mother of three. Her first book Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My
Bed! Hit #1 on the Barnes & Noble website in September 2005 and was
profiled by the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and other
publications. A graduate of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, DeBrecht served as co-captain of "Security Moms for Bush" for South Carolina, where she resides with her husband and children. Her latest book is titled Help! Mom! The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!

this is what I wrote her back:

this is quite possibly the most ridiculous article I've ever read. Liberals do not hate Christmas. The phrase "Jesus was a Liberal" means that Jesus believed in feeding the poor (welfare), taking care of the sick (medical care for everyone) and in fact said that to follow him, you needed to give away everything you owned and all your money. He spoke with the prostitute at the well and included the sinners in his work rather than just accusing them of being sinners and hating them for it. He would abhor everything the current "conservative" party stands for - squandering money, killing people in a war that we were lied to about in the first place, excluding people because of their sexual orientation or habits, etc. Your column is the perfect example of how closed minded and mean spirited you and your equally minded "conservative" party has become, and that would be the only reason I would even consider printing it ... which I'm certainly not going to do. Please take me off of your mailing list. I don't even want to read such horrible nonsense, much less spread it among my community.


And this is what she just wrote to me:

Like the article says, if you don't stand for Christian values, you don't stand for what God says. God is against abortion, he is pro life. God is against gay marriage, he is for one man and one woman marriage.

Forget the liberal/conservative issue. If you vote for candidates who do not represent Christ's values, you are supporting the opposite of what God says. There are no fence sitters in God's kingdom.

Betsy, you're banging your head against a brick wall here. People who are this far into fantasy land can't listen to anything reasonable - or even pay attention to what the bible actually says v. what they've been told the bible says. Their ego is so wrapped in the "we're holy, they're evil" thing they would go literally mindlessly screaming insane if they were forced to acknowledge reality (if that is even possible). If you have to respond to people like that, just give them a list of "chapter and verse" citations from the bible and let it go. If you are seeing these things in newpapers, of course send your response to the letters to the editor - truth will not reach the original writer, but it will keep sane people from being persuaded to join the insanity.

When you've been belligerently berated by a certifiable nutjob, it means you've done something right.

Christmas represents a religion with a moral code. There are no
exceptions for the “if it feels good, do it” liberal crowd. Self-absorption
and instant gratification have no room when one centers his/her life
around God, and not self.

DAR
Yeah, that's what Christmas is all about! Christianity is a religion with a moral code with no exceptions. Ho ho ho!

Did someone think think you would have published that tripe even if you still had paper? Oh I bet it was one of those shotgun things, you send it out in all directions and maybe it gets published.

Christians have always been delusional. They are more delusional now than ever before. Religion is the ultimate dope, the ultimate opiate because it's yearnings and cravings cannot be satisfied. Something is always wrong. You could give them back witch hunts, Scarlet Letters, stockades and there would be more punishments they demand in their delusional craving for religious satisfaction. Religious wackos run the Middle East and get to say what women can wear, whether or not a young girl gets to keep her joy button and that is not enough. They are killing off each other over a little squabble about which preacher-mullah has closer ties to Mohammed. There's no satisfying any of them. It's the perfect dope, the ultimo opiate. Coke nor heroin was never that rough on any soul.

Coke and heroin destroy the body - and the relationships that particular body has - but nothing destroys like religion.