CHRISTMAS IS LOSING

THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS: CHRISTMAS IS LOSING

With my two earlier articles on Christmas, in the interests of achieving a detente with the forces dedicated to destoying that national and religious holiday, I tried to downplay what is actually a literal war in progress against Christmas.

Now, back to the fray!

A few years back, Fox News’ John Gibson published a book on the subject, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought, the title of which just about says it all.

It is worse than we may have thought and, if anything, that war has gained momentum in the interim.

Just six weeks after the publication of Gibson’s book in 2006, a senseless controversy over Christmas trees erupted in Seattle, an eruption that is emblematic of that war and is just one example of the battles we are facing. See Bonnie Alba’s piece on the subject, “Battling Hate Crimes against Christmas,” http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/alba/071130.

That Seattle teapot tempest reached a peak, or a depth, of inanity after a rabbi protested and demanded that an eight foot menorah, a symbol of the Jewish festival of Hannukah, be displayed next to the largest Christmas tree at Sea-Tac Airport.

Sea-Tac authorities, in their less than infinite wisdom, arrived at the ultimate polititically correct solution: They removed all nine plastic ”holiday trees” from the airport premises. See http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/336038_trees19.html and http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003470331_trees10m.html.

When pushed against the wall, their pusillanimous response was to cave unapologetically to a single individual rather than allow the travelling public some meager measure of Christmas spirit in the form of decorated trees as they wended their way through the chaos that is most airports today.

Correction: It was simply “holiday” not “Christmas” spirit that the Sea-Tac Scrooges abolished. There was no Nativity scene replete with Christ Child at the airport so those Scrooges, under cover of darkness in the middle of the night, removed nine plastic symbols of one of our national holidays.


How stupid and gutless was that!

There’s a clear bottomline to all the dissension surrounding the recognition and celebration of Christmas at this time of year. Why that dissension even exists is beyond me. However, since it does exist, perhaps a reminder is in order.

Not only is Christmas a declared national holiday, and has been for 138 years, we are by far a predominantly-Christian nation, . . .

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)