Winter Without Christmas?
As if it weren't bad enough to have to stay at a nursing home, officials at some of these places have taken it upon themselves to deprive their patients of Christmas. See "Staver: Feds Need to Address Religious Discrimination in Nursing Homes at Christmastime," by Allie Martin and Jody Brown, Agape Press, Dec. 12 (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/202005a.asp). Liberty Counsel stepped in and got the Christmas ban repealed at three of these institutions (in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Massachusetts), but according to LC's Matt Staver, there are "numerous similar cases pending nationwide." He has asked the federal government to issue guidelines protecting the patients' rights to celebrate Christmas--at least in homes that receive government subsidies.
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," by C.S. Lewis, the evil White Witch's reign is summed up: "always winter, but never Christmas." Well, you don't need to go all the way to Narnia to see this kind of malice at work. We've got plenty of it right here in the real world!
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," by C.S. Lewis, the evil White Witch's reign is summed up: "always winter, but never Christmas." Well, you don't need to go all the way to Narnia to see this kind of malice at work. We've got plenty of it right here in the real world!
