by Jessica Reed
As Christmas makes its way in our calendars many incidents have made the news - some call it the War against Christmas, but I wouldn't go that far. A short collection of thoughts:
- The Guardian on the PC campaign against Christmas: "pure nonsense".
- Atrios explains a difference that has to be made (or not) :
There are two Christmas holidays. One is the secular holiday, decreed by the federal government to be a national holiday, which is celebrated and marked with festive displays of trees, lights, fat guys with beards, and elves, along with lots of shopping and the giving of gifts.
- Dan Savage on the Seattle airport controversy, where Christmas trees were removed after someone complained about their significance:
I dashed off a quick post about this dumbfuck controversy this morning at Sea-Tac—half asleep, on my way to a plane—just to reemphasize the point I made yesterday: It wasn't the dreaded secular humanists that got the freaking "holiday trees" yanked from Sea-Tac Airport. It was a religious person—what religion? who cares?—that complained about them, which prompted the Port of Seattle to yank 'em.
But my favourite quote has to be one heard last year on Fox News, from presenter Bill O'Reilly:
It's all part of the secular progressive agenda ... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square. Because if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious-based, usually.
Right Bill... An eggnog with that?
