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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Dr.
Jerry Falwell [mailto:webmaster-reply@falwell.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday,
October 13, 2006 3:45 PM<BR><B>To:</B> fc@list.falwell.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Christians Uniting to Safeguard Christmas<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>From: Jerry Falwell</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Date: October 13, 2006</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Christians Uniting to Safeguard
Christmas<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Liberty Counsel, the nonprofit litigation,
education and policy organization that has been at the center of the religious
freedom wars in our nation, and Jerry Falwell Ministries are again joining
together this year to promote the national “Friend or Foe Christmas
Campaign.”</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>This is the fourth year of the endeavor, which is
designed to educate Americans — primarily retailers, school administrators and
city officials who have attempted to eradicate celebrations of Christmas — of
the legalities of religious expression during the Christmas
season.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Last year’s operation was our most successful
ever, and we are hoping more pastors and citizens will join in this effort this
year.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>The primary way in which people are getting
involved is by placing ads in their local newspapers which spell out the rights
of individuals to participate in public Christmas
functions.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Liberty Counsel, which has offices in Orlando,
Fla., and on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., has hundreds of
affiliate attorneys in all 50 states who are pledged to be the “friends” to
those individuals which do not censor Christmas and a “foe” to those that
do. Last December, ABC’s “Good Morning America” assessed Liberty Counsel's
Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign during an interview with me. The host
observed that the campaign had ignited a “movement.”</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Indeed it did. Newspaper ads ran all over
the country and people joined together to tell retailers who banned expressions
of Christmas that they would shop elsewhere.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Last year, Liberty Counsel successfully handled
scores of cases in defense of Christmas, including a lawsuit against two
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State> towns
that would not permit a nativity scene in a public park. Liberty Counsel
intervened in numerous other situations last year.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>As a result, Boston stopped calling its Christmas
tree a “holiday tree”; Wellington, Fla., allowed a Nativity scene to join a
Christmas tree and a menorah; state employees were allowed to have Christmas
parties instead of generic “holiday parties”; schools included religious songs
in their choral presentations; students were allowed to recognize the Christian
aspects of Christmas; retailers started wishing shoppers “Merry Christmas”
instead of “happy holidays” and renamed their “holiday trees” to “Christmas
trees.”</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Many individuals in our nation have been convinced
by the ACLU and other organizations that wish to quell public religious
expression that simple expressions of the Christmas season are promotions of
religion. Nothing could be further from the
truth.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>I’m urging people to get involved in this issue so
that we can turn back these anti-Christmas organizations' efforts to stifle
public Christmas expressions.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>On its website ( </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A
href="http://www.lc.org/"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">www.LC.org</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> ), Liberty Counsel offers a Help Save Christmas™
action pack, which includes educational legal memoranda to educate government
officials, teachers, parents, students, private businesses, employees and others
that it is legal to celebrate Christmas. The legal memo will educate you
on how to defend Christmas.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>You can also get “I Love CHRISTmas”™ buttons, “I
Helped Save Christmas” bumper stickers, and sample newspaper ads — designed by
my National Liberty Journal newspaper staff — that can be used, free of
charge, in local newspapers.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>The ads point out that celebrating Christmas is
still legal in schools, on public property and in private businesses and offer
Liberty Counsel’s free legal assistance to those facing persecution for
celebrating Christmas.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Anita Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, said,
“Christmas is constitutional. We cannot allow our religious liberty and heritage
to be swept from the public square.”</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><o:p><FONT
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>When enough people learn the truth — that we can
celebrate the religious aspects of Christmas — the ACLU and similar “Scrooges”
and “grinches” will lose their power to steal
Christmas.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>Let’s join together to safeguard Christmas in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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