Dear friends:

Last night I ordered dinner for curbside pickup at a new Applebees restaurant near us.

After picking it up and signing the check, and as he was walking away from my car, the young man who delivered it said, "Happy Holidays."

I thought to myself, "Whoa.  I can't let this one go by..."

I stopped him and said, "Hey wait a minute.  That's not what it's about.  It's about Christmas and celebrating Jesus' birthday.  You are supposed to say, "Merry Christmas."

He turned and said, "I know, but they won't let me say it."  He explained.

I asked him to please deliver my complaint to his manager, and that I was offended.  We briefly talked about faith in Jesus, and I could  tell he was uplifted by my words.  I had also given him a 4Laws Christian booklet and one of Major Caesar Garduno's Christian CDs.  He said he would tell his manager, and departed with a smile and with a big "Merry Christmas."

When I got home, I called the manager and told her I was offended by the "Happy Holidays."  She said she did not agree with it either but corporate headquarters makes them do it.  She said there is a multi-million dollar lawsuit against one company because an employee said "Merry Christmas" to someone, and her company does not want to take the risk.  She also was a victim, not a cause.

This illustrates a major point.  The ACLU wins most of its battles by intimidation.  They find a stooge to file a lawsuit, under their coaching, so they can get an issue into court.  They choose a court with a liberal, anti-Christ judge where they know they can win.  Then they get a favorable judgement and a legal precedent, which our society foolishly treats as almost sacred. It is all carefully orchestrated.  Companies like Applebees are forced to offend millions of Christians so they won't offend just one whining, hell-bound atheist, who is an ACLU stooge in the first place.

School districts, other government entities, and most companies cannot afford the cost of expensive litigation; thus they easily cave in to the ACLU agenda and make these stupid rules against Jesus in all areas of life.  They hate Him.  The extensive ACLU funding from George Soros and other left-wing, mostly Democratic radicals makes this possible.

Thankfully, there are now many Christian legal defense groups that oppose the ACLU in court and they often win.  The Alliance Defense Fund is a coalition of most of those groups, individual lawyers, and firms.  They ADF includes the Liberty Council, the ACLJ, and many others.  The ADF was the vision of my late friend and businessman, Bill Pew, and was formed by several Christian leaders, late Dr. Bill Bright, the late Larry Burkett, Dr. James Dobson, Dr. D. James Kennedy, and the late Marlin Maddoux. Their prime concern was the dramatic loss of religious freedom in America's courts and the resulting challenges to people of faith to live and proclaim the Gospel.

The ADF is headed by a brilliant young attorney, Alan Sears, also my friend.  Several years ago I served on the ADF's board of directors.  Their Web site is at http://www.alliancedefensefund.org

Please pray for the ADF and groups like them, and if led, help them financially to fight the ACLU.

Most people do not know that the ACLU was formed in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, an avowed communist, and they have been anti-capitalist (read that: anti-American) and anti-Christ ever since.  As in the former Soviet Union, they want to destroy every vestige of religion in America, especially Christian.  Baldlwin once said, "I am for socialism... communism is the goal."

FOX News' Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson have been doing a good job recently of exposing the ACLU for its real agenda. Last night, O'Reilly reported that there are some school systems in America which will not even allow students to wear red and green colors because it is a  suggestion of Christmas!  Gibson has a popular new espose' book out, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.

Jim