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Fast Forward Spiritual Advisor Paula White Hails Trump’s Victory In ‘War On Christmas’
Paula White, a celebrity televangelist and spiritual advisor to President Trump, praised the administration for putting “Christ back in Christmas” and “prayer back into the White House” this year. “Trump just hasn’t put Christ back in Christmas, but he’s also put prayer back into the White House,” White said in a Monday interview on Fox…
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Life I’m Jewish – Wish Me a Merry Christmas Anyway, Dammit
Every year, conservatives declare there’s a war on Christmas if a manger is barred from a federal building or if there is no Christmas tree in their kid’s school. The outrage is even often focused on the Starbuck’s audacity to celebrate the holiday by printing offensive cups – this time depicting a lesbian couple. The…
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Fast Forward Trump Brings ‘Christmas’ Back To White House Holiday Cards
Winning the “War on Christmas” was a recurring theme during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and continued after he was elected. At its center is the belief that Democrats, specifically Barack Obama, caved in to political correctness and preferred the non-denominational “Happy Holidays” instead of the Christian “Merry Christmas” in official greetings. As the holiday season…
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Fast Forward Trump Tells Evangelicals: ‘We’re Saying Merry Christmas Again’
Speaking at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, an annual gathering of Christian conservatives, President Donald Trump said that under his presidency, he wanted people to proudly say “Merry Christmas” during the holidays. “We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values,” Trump said to applause. “As we approach the end of the year —…
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Fast Forward It’s (War On) Christmas In July For Trump
President Trump sought to educate Boy Scouts at their national jamboree about gathering health care votes, Hillary Clinton, the electoral college, and the tricks to keeping a real estate business afloat. He also had a surprising religious message to the thousands of Scouts gathered in West Virginia Monday night: “Under the Trump administration,” the president…
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Community The Real Victims of The War on Christmas
A Jewish family from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has suffered a torrent of harassment after false reports from Breitbart and Fox News claiming they deviously arranged the downfall of their child’s elementary school Christmas play. As responsible reporting has shown, they simply asked that their child be excused from participation in the play, and it was…
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News 5 Jews Who Make Christmas the Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Starting With Jesus
As the holiday season gears up, white supremacist David Duke and assorted others are sounding off about the “war on Christmas” — a purported plot to make the yuletide gay and atheist. Duke says Jews are behind the scheme, citing a joke that Sarah Silverman made about killing Jesus. Yet several Jews have actually made…
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