Baby Jesus, "Merry Christmas" banner removed from VA hospital

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/21/baby-jesus-merry-christmas-banner-removed-from-va-hospital.html?intcmp=hplnws

A manger and a banner reading “Merry Christmas” were removed from a public area of a VA hospital in Texas after someone complained about “overly religious and offensive” decorations.

“They ruined our decorations,” Vietnam veteran Ethel Holloway told television station KENS. “They threw them out.”

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Holloway said she had been putting up decorations at the Audi Murphy VA Hospital for 33 years – without any problems. This year, her yuletide banner turned out to be problematic.

“They literally took pieces from the middle of a whole train set, because the middle said ‘Merry Christmas,’” helper Grace Martinez told the television station.

The South Texas Veterans Health Care System admits they removed not only Holloway’s “Merry Christmas” banner, but also a manger along with a “specific scripture decoration.”

“During the removal of a manger and specific scripture decoration, a Merry Christmas decoration was accidentally removed and damaged,” read a statement from the VA to Fox News. “The remaining decorations were removed by the decoration donor and her representatives.”

The VA hospital said they have offered to reimburse her for the damaged decorations.

“We acknowledge that the corrective action should have been to display the faith-specific holiday decoration along with multiple religious faith symbols,” the statement read. “We are currently ensuring that our staff are educated and aware of the national policy and how it relates to decorations throughout the facility.”

So the VA destroys a brave veteran’s Christmas decorations – and their response is “oops – our bad”?

“The faith specific symbols were displayed in a public area without other specific religious symbols being included,” their statement read.

I’d like to know what happened to the manger scene and the other “overly religious and offensive” decorations.

Were they returned to donors? Were they stored in a closet? Were they tossed to the curb?

sharia at warp speed.

[Right_in_Virginia]

A manger and a banner reading “Merry Christmas” were removed from a public area of a VA hospital in Texas after someone complained about “overly religious and offensive” decorations.

One person complains and that's it?  This tyranny of the minority is really on my last nerve!   

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Someone thought it was "overly religious and offensive?"

I say, nanny censors should be given less of this  :nometalk:  and more of this: 

[andy58-in-nh]

Is it not curious how the forced expulsion of religious symbols from public life in America oddly seems to exclude those emblems of a single faith, and not those of Christianity, which is still by far the dominant faith in the country?