WOW: The Unbelievable Thing The Postal Service Just Did Will Anger Every Single Christian American Out There
For those who adorn their Christmas greeting cards with stamps featuring Christian religious figures or symbols, 2015 may prove to be a dry and disappointing year.
For the first time in decades, the U.S. Postal Service says it won’t issue new stamps depicting any such scenes. The post office action also includes a ban on images of the baby Jesus, the Madonna, and angels.
Non-Christians who appreciate religious scenes on holiday stamps they use will be equally disappointed. There will be no printing of new stamps for the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, the African-American celebration of Kwanzaa or the Muslim Ramadan holiday of EID.
The postal service has printed new religious images on seasonal stamps for each Christmas season in 45 of the last 50 years — images including the Virgin Mary, angels, wise men, nativity scenes, the Star of David and even Christmas trees. But this year, all of them have been eliminated.
Christians will have to settle for a new stamp series called “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or a new holiday stamp of “geometric snowflakes.”
Said Matt Sharp, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom — a non-profit legal group that litigates on behalf of the First Amendment right to freedom of religion:
“This is one symptom of a very broader [sic] effort to purge religion from the public square. They can only do Frosty the Snowman or something that has no religious content. It’s part of other efforts to take down religious symbols and religious monuments. It’s part of the effort to completely drive religion out of the public square.”
The decision whether to halt the printing presses for commemorative stamps was made by a little known federal advisory group within the postal service, the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. Ten of the 12 current committee members were appointed during President Obama’s term.
The group includes an African-American graffiti artist, a former Rolling Stone Magazine art designer, a swimming champion, an African-American historian, an antiques collector and an Obama political appointee to the Department of Education.
None is a theologian, pastor, priest, Rabbi or Imam.
The first time Christmas was eliminated from the stamp collection was during Jimmy Carter’s term.
Madonna images were included on holiday season stamps for 21 consecutive years until the last year of the Clinton administration in 2000. Madonna resurfaced in 2001 after President George W. Bush entered office.
Thankfully, for those who desire Christmas-themed stamps, there is reportedly an inventory of one billion “forever” stamps of holiday scenes still available from previous years.
H/T Daily Caller
Read more: http://www.tpnn.com/2015/09/10/wow-the-unbelievable-thing-the-postal-service-just-did-will-anger-every-single-christian-american-out-there/#ixzz3lXapYDN8My comments: OF COURSE, Obama and the Democrats are godless, Socialist, Secular Humanists who HATE God and His Word because He tells them that what they do is Evil. (John 7:7)
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