NO WAY! Gov. Sarah Sanders doubles down after legal group tries to reverse Christmas holiday for workers

December 22, 2025

From Fox News: Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is firing back at a legal group who took issue with her recent move to close state offices on Friday, December 26 to celebrate Christmas and give employees more time with their families.

After issuing a proclamation closing state offices for Christmas, Sanders received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group focused on the separation of church and state, calling for her to reverse the move and claiming it was unconstitutional.

In a response letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, Sanders told FFRF she “will do no such thing.”

“You say that my communications as Governor must be neutral on matters of religion,” Sanders wrote. “I say that, even if I wanted to do that, it would be impossible. Christmas is not simply an ‘end-of-the-year holiday’ with ‘broadly observed secular cultural aspects,’ as your letter states. It’s not gifts, trees, and stockings that make this holiday special. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and if we are to honor Him properly, we should tell His miraculous, world-changing story properly, too.”

In her scathing letter, Sanders ended it by telling FFRF, “Though you may enter this season with bitterness, know that Christ is with you, that He loves you, and that He died for your sins just the same as He did for mine and everyone else’s.”

Gov. Sanders posted a copy of her letter on social media, and declared, “The Freedom From Religion Foundation took issue with me closing state offices to celebrate Christmas and sent a letter demanding I rescind my proclamation.
Christmas isn’t a just a holiday, it’s the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth. Meaning matters, we won’t pretend otherwise. See my response here ⤵️.”

FFRF defiantely responding to the governor’s letter, sneering, “You didn’t just close state offices. You told employees to spend the day “giving thanks for Christ’s birth.” A day off is fine. Using state power to promote one religion is not. Arkansans deserve a governor who doesn’t impose her religion onto everyone else.”