Each December, the Becket Fund for
Religious Liberty (BFRL) calls out a person or organization that tries to take
religion out of the holidays. This
year’s “winner” of “The Ebenezer Award” is the American Humanist Association
(AHA), which has been quite the Grinch … attempting to stop public school
children from volunteering for a program that sends care packages to other kids
in need.
AHA went to court in Colorado in an
effort to put an end to the distribution of the care packages, which also
include religious messages about the meaning of Christmas. “These boxes are filled with school supplies
and basic hygiene items,” said Kristina Arriaga, Executive Director of Becket
Law. It’s heartbreaking enough that
there are children who will receive nothing but a toothbrush for Christmas. The American Humanist Association would deny
them even that?”
The non-profit that coordinates the
volunteers and sends the boxes, Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child, has been offending the AHA for years? The ‘perpetrator’ of good deeds ask volunteers
to pack shoe boxes for children of various age groups with items including: stuffed
animals, small toys, school supplies, and basic hygiene items … like toothpaste
and soap. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has provided
more than 100-million shoebox gifts to children in more than 130 countries.
AHA has been on a crusade to stop
public school children from volunteering for such programs since 2013 … when
they sent “letters of warning” to school districts in Colorado and South
Carolina where Operation Christmas Child
was invited into public schools.
“We’re talking about school children
putting together care packages for other children who are in need. If we can’t support that at Christmas, we are
truly living in Scrooge’s world,” said Arriaga of BFRL.
The time is long past due for this
atheist group (and others like them) to look beyond their limited scope of
understanding, and come to realize that unless you choose the rightful swords
to fall on, you will die for insignificant causes. Perhaps they should start up ‘Operation
Godless Child.’ Let us know how that
works out!
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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