Human Rights Commission Member Resigns After Profanity-Laced Anti-Christian Rant
Those who claim the “War on Christmas” is a right-wing hoax ought to take a visit to Dedham, Massachusetts, where a female member of the city’s so-called “Human Rights Commission” was forced to step down, after she posted a profanity-laced rant on social media about the town’s library putting up its annual Christmas Tree.
It all started in the comment section of a Facebook post where Lisa Desmond, supervisor of the Endicott branch of Dedham’s libraries regretted to inform town residents that the library would not be putting up a tree this year.
Apparently, the decision was made because last year, there were apparently complaints made that people were “uncomfortable” with the presence of the tree. However, Desmond wrote in her post that in her 28 years at the library, she’s “never heard a negative comment. We have celebrated and included everyone in our community. In fact, I was asked to emcee Juneteenth this year. What an honor. Those who know me and my family know we celebrate Christmas-Hanukkah. My Muslim friends and Western Indian friends invite me to their celebrations. What an amazing gift. … Those who know me know I lead with positive intentions. I’m not feeling very positive today. Please bring Christmas back to my beautiful library. And always lead with love in your heart.”
Hundreds of comments under her post and several other related posts on Desmond’s Facebook page were squarely against banning Christmas trees in the town’s public libraries – that is except for one.
A member of the Human Rights Commission in Dedham commented that Christians believe in “happy horseshit” and a “magic sky daddy” as part of an unhinged, profanity-laced rant about the library tree.
The Commission member, Diane Loud, called Desmond a “selfish, f***ing bitch who does not care about anyone else but herself. For a tree? A motherf***ing TREE? You have put people’s lives in a lot of danger. A lot of danger. For a motherf***ing Christmas tree.”
The inexplicably angry tirade read, “I hope that you — who claim to believe in Christ or whatever happy horses**t you’re trying to hide behind — are the least gracious, most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants? Where in the Bible was this again?”
And there was even more to the unhinged diatribe: “In closing I would like to add a final round of F*** YOU, YOU PIECES OF TRASH. I hate each and every one of you, and I do wish great suffering on you. You are terrible, terrible people.”
Interestingly, the rant’s author prefaced it all by saying, “I know there’s no way to survive whatever sanctions you’ll ask the select board to put my participation in commissions that actually try to make people’s lives better, so I might as well go for it.”
Desmond said in her Facebook post that “police have been notified” about the rant, and she also called for the rant’s author to resign from the town’s Human Rights Commission.
Loud has since resigned after the unbelievably anti-Christian post.
A mere two days after Desmond shared Loud’s rant, it was announced that Loud “has stepped down from her position on the Dedham Human Rights Commission. We sincerely appreciate Diane’s service and look forward to working with the Commission on Disabilities to find a representative to take her place.”
As for the tree, after Loud’s ugly post and massive pushback against the Christmas tree ban, the library director soon said they were putting up the trees after all.
Library Director Amber Moroney said in a statement that “Christmas trees will be put up” at both of Dedham’s public libraries.
Who picked her??
Just showing communists even hate a Xmas tree. This is how the socialist/Communists show thier feelings for OUR AMERICA as they want all to fall into the Devils hole with them. Hating our God is one of their first amendments. She will roast in Hell for her idiot communist actions
For some things Muslims engage in Stoning. Here’s an example of where it should be exercised to it’s fullest extent
WE HAVE NO LAWS PROTECTING OUR CITIZENS. NO LAW TO STAND UP FOR CHRISTIANS. THIS COUNTRY IS GONE, THE DEMOCRATS KEEP TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRACY, I DO NOT THINK THEY CARE ABOUT THAT AT ALL.THEN HUMAN RIGHTS, WHAT ABOUT US??? WE ARE OVERRUN WITH ILLIGALS ,CRMINALS. WE ARE NOT SAVE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, WHEN IS BIDEN CLOSING OUR BORDER, DEPORTING ALL THESE PEOPLE?? TAKING CARE OF US???
WELL HE IS JUST INSTALLED NOT ELECTED . WHY DO WE HAVE SANCTUARY CITIES> THIS SHOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW, HELPING PEOPLE TO COME HERE AND BRAKE THE LAW.WE DO NOT DEPORT THEM, OR PUT THEM IN PRISON.
OK, if the tree is huge, and not well supported, or if it is old and dry and someone put lit candles on it, I could see how it could “put people’s lives in a lot of danger. A lot of danger,” as Ms. Loud has claimed, but I have found no indication that either of these scenarios were the case. So, just how does putting up a tree and decorating it endanger people’s lives?
Yeah that’s what I do not understand. Community departments usually go to great lengths to make sure people cannot be hurt by walking near a Christmas tree.
No one has a right to take away our rights to freedom. You can be who your are, but you should learn that so does everyone else. Let go of your hate and live your life. Life is too short . I believe in god and it’s your life to believe what or who you are. But learn not to share your hatred. God Bless America ! Merry Christmas to all.
Why isn’t this looked at at HATE SPEECH? This is about as hatful as you can get.
Wishing harm and pain on ANYONE is disgusting, and if the tables were turned this insane woman would be screaming to the sky about HATE SPEECH.
Good that Diane Loud was forced to resign, AND now should be PROSECUTED UNDER the LAWS SHE WANTS US ALL TO FOLLOW!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!! 🌲💝⭐
HAPPY HANUKKAH !!!!! 🕎 💝✡️
Good grief!!!
Should be “looked at AS …”
AND HATEFUL, not hatful
Sorry about the typos – this had me a bit miffed
The responses on this one are priceless.
The author feels one person is Dedham MA represents part of the left-wing conspiratorial war on Christmas. Overwhelmingly white and Catholic, Dedham is 25K working-class people on Boston’s SW corner. It’s only moderately leans left with a 67/31% split between Dems and Repubs. It’s not the upper East Side in NYC. Not exactly the place to launch a war on Christmas. They run the town via town meeting with over 270 representatives; I am pretty sure neither Republicans or Democrats gonna rule in that environment. Just people. Both Reagan and Bush won, McCain and others came close. For Trump, they voted on party lines.
In this environment, and without due notice and transparency via the town meetings, the library foolhardily decided to go non-secular. This is totally appropriate for public institutions, yet hopefully based on the desires of the public which was not done here. The libraries are usually funded by local government, they are public buildings and should separate church and state by being non-secular. I, myself, believe we are a Christian nation and I, myself, could care less if there’s a tree, minora, or everything in the libraries, post offices, even government buildings. I just like the holiday decorations.
But nonsecular the Dedham Libraries, all two of them, went, and then probably did not tell too many.
Then one person put up a Facebook that described the situation and many commentors, as easily expected, disagreed.
And finally, a totally unhinged nut-job from the Human Rights Commission of all places responded in a filthy unhinged piece portending violence to boot. Unlike most journalists, the author printed a lot of this crap. This lady was immediately resigned, police were contacted, I am sure an investigation is underway as to the veracity of the physical threats. She certainly has issues and needs help. We don’t even know, but the author presumes, she’s a liberal. But we don’t know.
Epilogue: the trees went up at both libraries and Christians, Jews, Muslims and others cheered. A Christmas miracle, the threat of the war against Christmas broken like a glass ornament falling from the tree. Shattered. Ended. The war is over! Instead of D-Day, Dedham has Tree-day!
Extending this single act to all liberals would be similar to extending the events of 1/6 to all conservatives. Some people here even advocate stoning (doesn’t stoning kill) her and then roasting in hell. I guess that’s an eye for an eye, very Christmassy, and we need to investigate this stoner too.
But Dedham is one 25K white, Catholic, working-class town who foolishly implemented non-secular decorations in a surprise on transparency with one totally unhinged person going the deep end where the police already know it, followed by some public push back that brought the tree is back.
It’s Dedham, not the nation, and the author did not support his claim of an all-out liberal war on Christmas throughout America. Myself, in liberal NJ, am off to the post office where I enjoy their Christian decorations every year. Jim the Postmaster is great.
These things happen. It’s OK to treat public spaces as non-secular or secular, it’s up to the locals and we love Jim the Postmaster here. He can do no wrong. The other day, a town council near me, in the WV part of liberal NJ, was voting on recognizing Juneteenth. Not doing anything about it, just recognizing it. Suddenly a council member teed off about “those people,” and it went way downhill, almost about as bad as this one. It was Podunk goes viral after that, she immediately was resigned, and we moved on. No one said it was war, it was conservative; we just said ‘that bitch, she be crazy,” and let her and it go. Juneteenth was recognized, we did nothing, and we moved on. Yeah, Republicans stood up and said: you’re one of us and you are wrong, good riddance. And that’s how you stop the war, one crazy person at a time.
I agree with the author that it’s great to see other’s celebrations. My dentist has a minora up, no tree, and my only thought is: wish he put up more stuff from his celebration of his religion, I would love to see it.
I can understand public places being non-secular, that is our stated desire as a nation. To be non-secular in all government actions in what we should be and the ACLU is there to help us. BUT — we are a Christian nation and IF we are to decorate, honor, etc. I can understand going Christian first. And the trees are pretty. And a real tree is a renewable natural product from an industry I am so glad exists. It beautifies the landscape with it’s acres of very short conifers. More green is always good. Even shorties. I can’t imagine feeling a Christmas tree is misplaced unless we force the synagogue to have one on its front steps.
So there’s your war from this liberal: we should be non-secular in public spaces, we aren’t always, get over it, trees are pretty. And if some fool passes a non-secular bill, feel free to fight it like Dedham, I am one liberal that will cheer for you.
I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY WHERE THEY HATE X-MAS AS MUCH AS HERE. HERE WE HAVE NOTHING BUT HATE, ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT RACIST, ETC THERE IS NO ONE RACIST, IT IS ALL MADE UP BY THE DEMOCRATS TO DIVIDE THIS COUNTRY.WE LIVED TOGETHER JUST FINE UNTIL OBAMA THE BIGGEST RACIST CAME ALONG. LISTEN TO CORRUPT MAXINE WATERS THE THIEVE.
DEMOCRATS AND THE GOP, NEED TO GOVERN, WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF OUR NATION. FORGET POWER YOU ARE JUST HURTING OUR CITIZENS, FORGET ”WOKE” GENDER IDENTITY. LET EVERYONE HAVE A SAVE HAPPY LIVE.OTHERWISE WE ARE BETTER OFF HAVING JUST ONE GOOD PARTY, PATRIOTS WHO STAND FOR THIS COUNTRY.
I suppose if Frank Stetson can write long-winded comments on things, so can I. First, I am appalled that someone on the “Human Rights Committee” should have such dire thoughts about Christmas trees and such. I’m also worried that such things can happen here, in America, where our ancestors came for RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Well, I am just as opposed to Ms. Loud’s ideas as she is against Christmas trees, and I suppose Christmas and MY Christain faith. I’ll pray for her to at some point to become at the least a bit more tolerant, and perhaps even to see the true light of what Christmas is REALLY all about. Take this little item that I wrote for my son and my grandkids. He used part of it in his sermon on Christmas Day. God Bless him and Thank the Good Lord for his gift to us.
TT#3 That’s What It’s All About,
Charlie Brown
Way back in ancient times, when I was just 15 years old, I got to watch what has since become a true Christmas classic. It was 1965. The war in Vietnam was just barely beginning to be big news. The Minnesota Twins had just won the World Series to the amazement of many baseball fans. The Stupid Bowl was still just a passing thought in the minds of those who wanted a true World Championship of Pro football. And, I was a junior in high school.
The show I got to watch that evening was one which many of us still like to see each season. I’m talking about “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
I recently watched this little gem once again. It’s still just as cute and captivating as it was for me back then when I wasn’t even old enough to drive. It still tells a delightful little story of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang as Christmas is approaching. As usual, Charlie Brown is his normal insecure self and he’s wondering what all the Christmas hoopla is all about. At this time of year, kids especially should be giddy with anticipation of what Santa is going to be bringing them. But for Charlie Brown… Well, he’s feeling like something is just not right. He’s wondering what it’s all about and why things are the way they are at Christmas.
Part of what he sees is that Christmas has been commercialized; that Christmas has become a much more secular holiday and is all about the glitz of celebrations, the lighting displays, the parades with Santa Claus and the desire of the kids to get, as his sister Sally Brown quips, “I just want my fair share of the loot.” Or some such statement.
This past Christmas, I became a bit disappointed when I tried to find some truly CHRISTMAS stamps to put on my Christmas cards and letters for the holiday season. There was only one I could find with a Christian theme. It had to do with some saint of the Catholic church. But there were no stamps to show the Three Wise Men, the Star of Bethlehem, the Nativity, or any other thing that was patently Christmas in the Christian tradition.
We had Kwanzaa stamps. We had Hanukkah stamps. We had snowmen, snowflakes, Christmas trees, and other such secular things. But no stamps showing what this holiday is supposed to be about. Why is that, we should wonder?
Yeah, I guess I may be Charlie Brown in real life. He and I share many values that are not always the most important ones to people today. Charlie had an empathy for other people. He cared about what happened with his friends and family. He was the guy who always stood up for the “right” thing. I used to be the same way. In fact I have wondered at times if Charles Schultz didn’t make a study of me to model Charlie Brown after. I would have loved to have one of those t-shirts with the weird craggy design on the front, just like his.
In the story, Charlie Brown is concerned that something is missing from the Christmas holiday. He doesn’t know what it is and so he goes to Lucy the psychiatrist for a nickel’s worth of help. You know, her little booth “Psychiatric help 5¢” and before she’ll speak to him, she has to feel that rattle of “cold, hard cash” that is (she says) what everything is all about. He explains his situation and is told he’s afraid of commitment. That’s what he needs, she says. So she volunteers him to run the Christmas pageant at the school.
So, Charlie Brown ends up at the school stage and is trying to get things organized while all the kids seem to want to do is dance around to some jazzy music. Finally, when he’s fully fed up he yells, “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?”
Everything stops for a few seconds and then Linus walks over to Charlie Brown and says: “Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.’
[Linus moves toward the center of the stage]
Then, he says, “Lights, please.”
[a spotlight shines on Linus]
And Linus recites: “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not:”for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'”
Linus picks up his blanket and walks back to Charlie Brown and says, “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”
This Fall, I looked up the show on the Internet. And there I got the whole story. When the show was originally put together it didn’t include Linus’ recitation because it was thought that folks might object to it on religious grounds. But Bill Melendez, the producer, insisted that the segment, about a minute and 40 seconds long SHOULD be included. The response after the program was aired was almost unanimously positive toward this specific part of it. It’s good to know that there were then many, many people who thirsted for the true meaning of the Christmas holiday and the true Christmas message.
You see, Charlie Brown had it right. Linus had it right. Charles M. Schultz had it right. Bill Melendez had it right. The true meaning of Christmas should never be forgotten as long as true Christians hold it as holy.
The true meaning of Christmas is that it is a CHRISTIAN holiday that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. He was the gift sent to us by God to save us from ourselves. Christmas is meant to remember that gift, that we may give thanks to God for having given it; and by that act to have given us all the chance to accept the gift willingly and happily.
I accept that gift. Happily, willingly, and unreservedly. For, no other gift given by anyone to anyone else will ever be as great as the one God gave us on that day over 2,000 years ago. We should all accept this gift and treasure it, because its worth is more than all the treasure we could ever see in this world.
Praise be to God and all His heavenly host! And on Earth, peace and good will to all people everywhere.
And by the way, “Yes, THAT is what it’s all about, Charlie Brown…”
And, Ms. Loud, if you don’t like this… May God have mercy on you.