Why the left fears Christmas

The American Thinker ^ | 11-19-2005 | Bookworm

[AliVeritas]

As the Christmas season nears, we can anticipate a flurry of news stories about townships here and cities there, all of which are trying their darndest to avoid the idea of Christmas. Some will substitute entirely nondenominational “winter celebrations;” others will invoke Native American or Pagan spirits; others will do an ecumenical melange of celebrations by dressing Santa in a yarmalkah and Kwanza colors; and still others will take the joking way out, and do a Seinfeldian “Festivus.”

Each community, whatever option it chooses, will think it’s properly complying with its First Amendment obligations. And each community, I believe, will be violating both the letter and spirit of the First Amendment’s freedoms of religion and speech.

The First Amendment is not complex. Its entire view on the nexus between religion and government appears in two short clauses:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

That’s it. (And of course, the Fourteenth Amendment extends this Clause’s reach to State governments.)

[AliVeritas]

Excellent piece.

[andyk]

Thanks for the post, although I had to look up both "ukase", and "inchoate"... :)

[Colonial Warrior]

Thank you...definitely a good read.

[ottothedog]

Great Article!

Unfortunately, it is not just the lefties that is diss'ing Christmas

[beyond the sea]

The inchoate, unspoken fear, then, that lurks behind the Left’s relentless attacks on Christmas is that somewhere, somehow, someone is going to see a department store Santa in a city parade or a cheesy creche under a tree by a courthouse, and is then going to rush off screaming to join the nearest church.

LOL

[AlexW]

Thank God, at my 60+ years, I can remember when Christmas was Christmas.
I feel so sorry for the kids and traditional thinking people that have to put up with the Nudows and PC crapers
of the world.

[after dark]

Excellent article. It was good food for thought.

> I am more horrified by the outrageous attempts to our alter culture by a hand full of people.

I think their next step will be the infiltration of all churches.

[goodnesswins]

"I think their next step will be the infiltration of all churches.

They are already doing that.

[bulldozer]

One of the next steps is jail time for preachers because of hate speech.

[Falconspeed]

...fearing a Saudi style theocracy doesn’t mean we have to go the other way and allow the small number of active atheists to remove religion or, as with Santa, icons loosely based on religion, entirely from our world.

Very well said. A small group of atheists should not be allowed to preach and spread their religion on the majority of Americans who are tolerant, fair and respectful of the Bill of Rights.