OPINION:
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with The Washington Post’s “Power Up” team that Christmas “cannot be business as usual” this year because of the coronavirus and that since he’s giving up his family gathering in the name of saving America, then all the other Americans out there should do so as well.
Give up the Christmas get-togethers, he said.
It’s for the greater good, he said.
Once again, here comes the medical bureaucrat pulling the political strings to steal a cherished American right: that of free worship. Not all Americans, after all, are atheistic in bent like the good Dohktah Fauci, who confirmed to C-SPAN in 2015 that it was a “totally accurate” assessment that he considered himself a “humanist.” Some really see Christmas as a religious-based holiday; some really gather for celebration of Christ’s birthday.
And that would make Christmas a religious freedom matter.
But take out the Christ — as Fauci apparently does, and as so many on the secular side of America do — and Christmas get-togethers are still protected freedoms of assembly. In other words: Government has no right to impose restrictions — and is taking this coronavirus cause to extreme liberty and stretching the declared health emergencies for all their worth, for all their political power-grabbing worth.
Fauci is not a member of the elected public servant class.
But he is a government bureaucrat. And he does influence the minds of the elected public servant class. What he’s said on coronavirus clampdowns generally makes it into governors’ and Democrats’ ears, which in turn trickle to the American people — the suffering American people — as orders of restrictions.
Fauci is the political whisperer.
The atheistic humanistic political whisperer of all-things-COVID-19.
So when he says things like, “We have a big problem,” and like, “Look at the numbers — the numbers are really quite dramatic,” which he did, well then, the political tyrants we’ve seen using COVID-19 for tyrannical clampdowns grab their scepters and run to their thrones and start the issuing of orders, left and right, day and night.
“I’m going to be with my wife — period,” Fauci said. “The Christmas holiday is a special holiday for us because Christmas Eve is my birthday. And Christmas Day is Christmas Day. And [our family members] are not going to come home. … That’s painful. We don’t like that. But that’s just one of the things you’re going to have to accept as we go through this unprecedented challenging time.”
Who died and made Fauci king?
“Stay at home as much as you can,” Fauci warned. “Keep your interactions to the extent possible to members of the same household.”
Don’t go to church?
It’s implied.
“This cannot be business as usual this Christmas because we’re already in a very difficult situation, and we’re going to make it worse, if we don’t do something about [it],” Fauci said.
Let’s remember that in America, individual rights come from God, not government — and certainly not medical pinheads like Fauci.
The way it works is this: If Fauci wants to stay home and stay alone, fine. Go ahead and stay home and stay alone. He’s an American citizen; he gets to make that decision for himself. And if he’s afraid of the coronavirus, then he can certainly protect himself from the coronavirus by staying home and staying alone.
But the rest in America have the right to individual choice as well.
And Christmas is the time for filling God’s churches with His people, and exchanging presents with friends and families gathered for good times.
It’s not the time to pay attention to humanists and atheists.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE.
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