Muzzle Christmas?

Christmas is coming, and the goodwill of the season is contagious, but there is an anti-Christmas trend evident today in many parts of our country.  Let’s look at last year.  Here were some examples.

Government officials in Las Vegas banned a nativity scene at the airport as too religious.  In Kensington, Maryland, the town council voted to ban Santa Claus because two people complained.  In Ramsey County, Minnesota, its manager, Paul Kirkwood, banned red poinsettias from the annual Christmas display at the St. Paul courthouse. 

The Portland Housing Authority in Maine banned all religious symbols from display in public buildings.  The superintendent of schools in Silverton, Oregon ordered all religious symbols removed from students’ lockers. 

Very commonly, Christmas is being deleted from school calendars all over America.  In Frederick County, Maryland, the principal banned Christmas cards from being given out.  He said that those with a Christmas message may not be a legally protected right—while a fourth-grader in Ephrata, Pennsylvania was forbidden to pass out Christmas cards to her classmates. 

Wearing red and green scarves in a Christmas skit was enough to get two middle school students disciplined in Rochester, Minnesota.  A teacher in Plymouth, Illinois was admonished by her principal not to read a book about Christmas to her second graders.

Icicle lights were banned from display by government officials in Northdale, Florida.  A teacher at Sable Point School in Seminole, Florida was threatened with her job if she didn’t remove a pin she was wearing which said, “Jesus Is The Reason For The Season.”

At a school in Oyster Bay, Long Island, Jewish songs were allowed at a holiday concert, but Christmas songs were prohibited.  At Bradley University there was an uproar on campus because there was a Christmas tree set up there.  To defend a tree in the Wisconsin capital of Madison, the governor there renamed the Christmas tree—oh no, he couldn’t use the word “Christmas”, and so he re-named it a “holiday” tree; then it was allowed to stay.

Friends, I just don’t think we should let the rascals win on these things.  When stuff like this happens, I’d say get a posse together of several of you and march in there and simply tell them, “No, we’ve been doing this for 200 years, and you’re not going to stop us now.  And if they really fuss, get some legal advice.  I think we could win most of these cases, if they actually ended up in court.