California County Rescinds “Christian Heritage Month”

The Times Of Israel reports:

Two months after proclaiming that July would henceforth be known locally as “American Christian Heritage Month,” the board of supervisors in El Dorado County, California has reversed course.

The county’s elected governing body unanimously rescinded the proclamation Tuesday following backlash from local Jews, the American Civil Liberties Union, and others who said it inappropriately advanced the idea that the United States is a Christian nation.

The language of the proclamation is taken from the platform of the Constitution Party, a conservative political party formed in the 1990s that advocates for hands-off governance and Christian values. The proclamation’s critics said it violated the principle of the separation of church and state and promoted one religion over others.

Read the full article.

Dennis Prager is very upset:

Well, as a Jew, let me say how embarrassed I am that there would be local Jews who came out against this. There are more Christians, I strongly suspect, in El Dorado County, California than there are LGBTQ people. So why can’t that be honored? Has Christianity not played a fundamentally positive role in creating America? Was it not Christians in Britain who abolished the slave trade, the first people on earth to do so? Is that not worth noting? Left-wing Jews are of no help to the Jewish people, aside from all the other awful things that they stand for.

California county rescinds ‘American Christian Heritage Month’ after pressure from ACLU https://t.co/cVdPdMSdk0

— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) September 24, 2023

The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to overturn its decision.
The motion to rescind the proclamation was put forward by Supervisor John Hidahl, who originally proposed the idea. Thankfully, better sense has prevailed now. (2/3)

— FFRF (@FFRF) September 19, 2023