{"id":2266,"date":"2007-12-14T00:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T05:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/us_house_steps\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T05:46:28","slug":"us_house_steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/us_house_steps\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Steps Up To Protect Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a post lamenting another Democratic cave-in, Glenn Greenwald notes this unusual act of courage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

To be fair, the Democratic-led House was able to pass an extremely important bipartisan resolution yesterday<\/a> — by a vote of 372-9<\/a> — which “recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world”; proclaims that Christmas is “a holiday of great significance to Americans”; decrees that “Christians and Christianity have contributed greatly to the development of western civilization”; explains that “on December 25 of each calendar year, American Christians observe Christmas, the holiday celebrating the birth of their savior, Jesus Christ”; and “expresses its deepest respect to American Christians and Christians throughout the world.”
\nSo it’s important to temper the criticisms of the Congress with an acknowledgment and appreciation for these brave and important achievements — one of the bravest and most consequential acts of Congress since they solemnly banded together to condemn MoveOn.org’s newspaper advertisement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And some people complain about us having a do-nothing Congress.
\nActually, the House did step up today by voting to ban waterboarding<\/a>. With a double dose of protection, perhaps Santa won’t need to worry about being tortured this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a post lamenting another Democratic cave-in, Glenn Greenwald notes this unusual act of courage: To be fair, the Democratic-led House was able to pass an extremely important bipartisan resolution yesterday — by a vote of 372-9 — which “recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions of the world”; proclaims that Christmas […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}