Congress loves Islam, not Christianity (blogburst)

Democrats Vote Yes to Ramadan, But No To Christmas, from Stop the ACLU (Blogburst)

 

War on Christmas?  Bah!

From the office of GOP Rep. Steve King:

Congressman Steve King reacted this morning to the nine “NO” votes on his resolution to honor Christmas and the Christian faith. The vote shocked Capitol Hill observers because votes on similar resolutions honoring the holidays of Islam and Hinduism passed without any NO votes.

Appearing this morning on the Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, King said, “The [nine] naysayers didn’t make it to the floor to debate. I would like to know how they could vote Yes on Islam, Yes on the Indian Religions and No on Christianity when the foundation of this nation and our American culture is Christianity…I think there’s an assault on Christianity in America.”

The nine Members voting NO were Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) (FL), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). None of the nine voted against resolutions honoring the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.

Nine Democrats voted No – Ackerman, Clarke, DeGette, Hastings (FL), Lee, McDermott, Scott (VA), Stark and Woolsey.
Nine Democrats voted Present – Conyers, Frank (MA), Holt, Payne, Schakowsky, Schwartz, Wasserman Schultz, Welch (VT) and Yarmuth

This is interesting because of this group 17 of the 18 Ds above voted FOR a resolution honoring Ramadan (Lee missed the vote). Note that the King resolution was based on the language in the Ramadan resolution. You can compare them if you want, but King’s is more benign. Ramadan – H.Res. 635 and Christmas – H. Res. 847

H. Res. 847: recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

Allahpundit:

And all but one voted yes on the Ramadan resolution in October, as did nine other Democrats who voted “present” on this one. (Barbara Lee missed the earlier vote.) The boss blogged this much earlier but after knocking Tanc for voting “present” on the Ramadan resolution — which no House member voted against, do note — I’d be remiss if I didn’t flag this at HA. Any explanations here other than simple bigotry? If so, Steve King says he’d love to hear them, as would I. The left sometimes seem to have it in its mind that the Establishment Clause contains some sort of equal protection component that makes it okay to endorse minority religions, however symbolically, while scrupulously resisting the faith of the majority lest it burst into theocracy. No such doctrine, boys.

Ace:

Separation of Church and State or separation of Christianity and State?

This has got to make the ACLU and CAIR super proud.

Other reading:

ACLU Claims Religious Test ‘Proposed as a Necessary Qualification’ for President, Stop the ACLU

Comments

[Karen]

I just read about this at a couple of other spots and I am disgusted. Not surprised but disgusted. I'll be including it in my post today, too. The more people who read about it the better.

[Robocop]

I am not surprised at all by those Democratic votes. The current mainstream Democratic Party is very un-American, and since Christianity is the basis for our country, well, you all get the drift.

[David]

I just woke up from a marvelous dream in which somebody hosed all the people who voted these Democrats into office with 20mm cannons. How un-Christian of me to think God might one day do something worse to these people.

[Skunkfeathers]

Nawp...no surprises. The "Blame America First" list of Al Qaida apologists are just being what they are: hate-filled appeasers of anything of the enemy.