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Just heard that the Red Cross has given orders to all their stores in the UK that no Christmas decorations will be allowed to be displayed in their stores. That also includes the word CHRISTMAS! Don't know about you, but I'm sick of this crap! I used to run a couple blood banks for them, NO MORE! PJ
 
"God bless us, everyone!"
 
You know me - digging around to see what's really going on. Looks like lots of websites are desperately looking for things to get their readers' ire up. (So what else is new ...?)

Back in 2002 the UK paper Daily Mail published an article about the Red Cross trying to stay "neutral" in all things political and religious in its fund-raising shops.

Someone recently resurrected the article as tho' it were brand new, and it's now spreading around the internet world via blogs and emails.

https://blogs.redcross.org.uk/uk/2010/12/how-the-red-cross-didn’t-steal-christmas

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-152361/The-Red-Cross-bans-Christmas.html

And if UK offices can't put Christmas displays up ... well then I'm sure glad I live in the USA.

Tom
 
I won't say any more about my thoughts on the "Politically Correct" thing and end it here. PJ
 
I like Mickey's sentiments.

The UK Red Cross and Red Crescent have maintained their religious neutrality for many years. That is nothing new. In fact, the article you are quoting originally came from the Daily Mail newspaper in 2002.

~Here~ is how the Red Cross has responded to that charge.

As always, everyone has to make up their own mind about these things.
I am happy to donate to the Red Cross because it appears to me that they do many Good Works around the world. I do not particularly care if they proselytize about any particular faith......but on balance, I'm probably happier if they continue to remain neutral on these things.

Whether they wave any particular flag or not, <span style="font-style: italic">"by their fruits we will know them".</span> :wink:

FYI: Here is <span style="text-decoration: underline">part</span> of what they say on their official UK blog.

<span style="font-style: italic">The point is that the Red Cross is not a political or religious organisation. This neutrality is one of our fundamental principles and governs everything we do in the whole Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It means that we can reach and help people in need, whoever and wherever they are. Often we provide help in countries that other organisations cannot or will not work in..........A nativity scene in a shop in Kent might seem like it has nothing to do with our sensitive, precarious work in a war zone in Africa or the Middle East. But in a world where information travels quickly and pervasively – a world where an eight-year-old news story is still raising questions with our supporters – we have to make sure we act consistently across the board with regard to our neutrality.
We wish all our supporters a merry Christmas and a happy new year!"</span>
 
They're actually following the original wishes of one of their founders, the great Clara Barton, who deliberately sought for the organization to be neutral.

This is nothing new, nor is twisting the story to make it "news worthy" by yellow journalists.

Nothing new on either side of the issue. :nonod:
 
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