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To: mwollstonecraft

Secular?

You call a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God “Secular”?


9 posted on 11/19/2007 5:18:38 AM PST by Wil H
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To: Wil H
Here's the proof:

FDR declared Thanksgiving to extend the shopping season:

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/thanksg.html

So thanksgiving is a secular holiday. You may, of course, celebrate it any way you choose.

13 posted on 11/19/2007 7:14:48 PM PST by mwollstonecraft
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