Christian gang sign placed on veteran's graves!

[seer]

Yes Christmas wreaths are gang signs! Oh the horror!

{QUOTE]Wreaths Across America 'carpet-bombing' veteran cemeteries with 'Christian gang sign,' nonprofit says

Laying wreaths on veteran graves without consent akin to a Christian 'gang sign,' group said

The leader of a nonprofit that protects military members' religious freedoms said wreaths laid on tombstones of veterans whose families haven't consented are Christian gang signs.

"We're not saying you can't [place wreaths], but you cannot blanket it like that," Military Religious Freedom Foundation president Michael ‘Mikey’ Weinstein told Fox News. "That's like carpet-bombing."

"That looks like it's a Christian gang sign, that you're creating territory that is a Christian territory," he continued.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wreaths-a...christian-gang[/QUOTE]

[Sparko]

[seer]

Do you remember the secret Christian gang handshake? I forgot it...

[Sparko]

Do you remember the secret Christian gang handshake? I forgot it...

Again?

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[seer]

Again?

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That's it!

[Sparko]

That's it!

Well that's the public version anyway. It wouldn't be a secret if we just posted it everywhere, all willy-nilly.

I think I am gonna get a wreath tattoo on my neck like a real gang boss!!

Christianity: Best. Gang. Evar.

[rogue06]

Well that's the public version anyway. It wouldn't be a secret if we just posted it everywhere, all willy-nilly.

I think I am gonna get a wreath tattoo on my neck like a real gang boss!!

Christianity: Best. Gang. Evar.

Pffft. What gang doesn't have a lot of firepower to bring to the game? I'm having roguetech kick into overdrive seeing if we can make this puppy a reality without blowing up in my face --- at least more often than most of our stuff.

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[Juvenal]

Putting the $ in Chri$tmas since 1992
.

The annual event has its roots in a donation in 1992 by the family that owns the Worcester Wreath Co. in Maine of a surplus of their product to Arlington National Cemetery to put on graves. The family members continued to make a yearly donation to Arlington and after a photo of the wreaths went viral in 2005, they began getting thousands of emails from people who wanted to participate in the effort.

Based on the requests, the Worcester family sent ceremonial wreaths representing each branch of the military, plus one for POW/MIA military members, to more than 100 locations in 2006. In 2007, the family and supporters set up Wreaths Across America.

The event is held each year on the second or third Saturday of December. Volunteers sign up to coordinate locations and lay wreaths, and individuals and organizations -- such as the VFW, American Legion, churches and community groups -- sponsor the $15 wreaths. Wreaths Across America gives back $5 to the nonprofits for each sponsorship to use for their own programs, Caron said.

Complete with kickbacks.

[Gondwanaland]

Yes Christmas wreaths are gang signs! Oh the horror!

Wreaths Across America 'carpet-bombing' veteran cemeteries with 'Christian gang sign,' nonprofit says

Laying wreaths on veteran graves without consent akin to a Christian 'gang sign,' group said

The leader of a nonprofit that protects military members' religious freedoms said wreaths laid on tombstones of veterans whose families haven't consented are Christian gang signs.

"We're not saying you can't [place wreaths], but you cannot blanket it like that," Military Religious Freedom Foundation president Michael ‘Mikey’ Weinstein told Fox News. "That's like carpet-bombing."

"That looks like it's a Christian gang sign, that you're creating territory that is a Christian territory," he continued.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wreaths-a...christian-gang

Technically those should be called pagan gang signs, if anything, as that's their origin.

[Mountain Man]

Putting the $ in Chri$tmas since 1992
.

The annual event has its roots in a donation in 1992 by the family that owns the Worcester Wreath Co. in Maine of a surplus of their product to Arlington National Cemetery to put on graves. The family members continued to make a yearly donation to Arlington and after a photo of the wreaths went viral in 2005, they began getting thousands of emails from people who wanted to participate in the effort.

Based on the requests, the Worcester family sent ceremonial wreaths representing each branch of the military, plus one for POW/MIA military members, to more than 100 locations in 2006. In 2007, the family and supporters set up Wreaths Across America.

The event is held each year on the second or third Saturday of December. Volunteers sign up to coordinate locations and lay wreaths, and individuals and organizations -- such as the VFW, American Legion, churches and community groups -- sponsor the $15 wreaths. Wreaths Across America gives back $5 to the nonprofits for each sponsorship to use for their own programs, Caron said.

Complete with kickbacks.

You imply this is unscrupulous, but I don't see how.

Seriously, anybody getting bent out of shape about this needs to have their heads examined. I wonder, if they find this innocuous tradition so offensive, do they also refuse to decorate their homes, forgo holiday gatherings and the exchanging of gifts, and demand that their employer allow them to work that day?

[tabibito]

In Japan this time of the year, it is all but impossible to move without finding some sort of Christmas display. But then, Christians make up about three percent of the population (if you include such groups as Jehovah's witnesses in the count) so it is fully understandable that they have no objection to Christian celebrations.

[rogue06]

You imply this is unscrupulous, but I don't see how.

Seriously, anybody getting bent out of shape about this needs to have their heads examined. I wonder, if they find this innocuous tradition so offensive, do they also refuse to decorate their homes, forgo holiday gatherings and the exchanging of gifts, and demand that their employer allow them to work that day?

These are likely the same folks who go apoplectic when you tell them that you are keeping them in their prayers. I've even seen someone declare it was somehow in some way akin to assault.

[rogue06]

In Japan this time of the year, it is all but impossible to move without finding some sort of Christmas display. But then, Christians make up about three percent of the population (if you include such groups as Jehovah's witnesses in the count) so it is fully understandable that they have no objection to Christian celebrations.

We need to send some American liberal atheists over to correct their wrongheaded view. Don't they know they're being oppressed?