{"id":19237,"date":"2013-06-15T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T10:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2013-06-15T06:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T10:29:50","slug":"why-we-should-all-move-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19237","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should All Move To Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rick Perry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.tx.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rick Perry<\/a> has done it again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/rick-perry-merry-christmas-bill-texas-schools-92741.html\">Politico<\/a> reported on Thursday that Rick Perry has signed a bill passed by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Texas Legislature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Texas legislature<\/a> that makes it legal to say &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Holiday greetings\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday_greetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Merry Christmas<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill states:<\/p>\n<p id=\"continue\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201ca <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"School district\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/School_district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">school district<\/a> may educate students about the history of traditional winter celebrations, and allow students and district staff to offer traditional greetings regarding the celebrations, including \u2018Merry Christmas,\u2019 \u2018<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hanukkah\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanukkah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Happy Hanukkah<\/a>,\u2019 and \u2018happy holidays&#8230;\u201ca school district may display on school property scenes or symbols associated with traditional winter celebrations, including a menorah or a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Christmas tree\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_tree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Christmas tree<\/a>, if the display includes a scene or symbol of more than one religion or one religion and at least one secular scene or symbol.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is sad that we need a bill like this to protect the religious rights of all students, but we do. Thank you, Governor Perry, for signing this bill.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=fa6c670c-be26-4c0b-9d8a-081f20792661\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry has done it again. Politico reported on Thursday that Rick Perry has signed a bill passed by the Texas legislature that makes it legal to say &#8220;Merry Christmas.&#8221; The bill states: \u201ca school district may educate students about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1386,1154,5717,5718,4414,16,1831,163],"class_list":["post-19237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-tree","tag-hanukkah","tag-holiday-greetings","tag-merry-christmas","tag-rick-perry","tag-school-district","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19239,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions\/19239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}