Just in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine
Gregoire has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the state
Capitol building in Olympia there is a traditional holiday display
featuring a tree and the Nativity scene; perfectly appropriate since
the federal and state Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus
in Bethlehem.
But this year Gregoire decided to add another item to the display.
Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by
atheists that reads: "There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no
heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth
and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
You read that correctly. The governor of Washington State has permitted
an attack on religion to be displayed in her office building as part of
a Christmas presentation.
Even the producers of "The Twilight Zone" would have rejected this
script as being too far-fetched. Gregoire's behavior is offensive,
insulting to all people of faith and totally incomprehensible.
Unless you know what's going on in Washington State.
Seattle now rivals San Francisco for secular-progressive nuttiness. The
city fathers are allowing public nakedness in city parks and nude bike
riding, and in Fremont, a Seattle suburb, they actually put up a statue
honoring Vladimir Lenin, the father of communism.
Some on the Seattle school board actually supported denigrating
Thanksgiving by teaching children about the atrocities against Native
Americans by the Pilgrims.
In addition, Washington State voters have passed assisted-suicide
legislation, and the state gives out free birth control pills,
including the "morning after pill."
On the quality-of-life front, the streets of Seattle are full of
homeless people, but they don't have to be out in the rain. The city
will pay to house alcoholics and drug addicts if they want it. They can
actually get free furnished apartments. Taxpayers, of course, pick up
the tab.
Outside of the Seattle area, Washington State is fairly conservative.
But the big-city population base rules, and far-left zealots are
running wild. However, they may have overstepped on this Christmas deal.
I believe that most Americans, even those living in the far-left
enclaves, respect uplifting traditions like Christmas, where peace and
love is the theme of the great day. Calling religion "enslaving"
doesn't exactly fit into the peace and love scenario, does it? Can't we
all just get along for a few weeks in December?
The answer to that question is no. Not in Washington State, where the
governor believes a few nuts have a legal right to run down the
Christmas tradition in the lobby of the Capitol building. At this point
there is little left to say except this: Where are the wise men when
you need them?
