LMAO! No, I don't want my holidays elevated at all. They are very meanigful to me. I unlike you, do not need the federal approval of my days.
But you never answered me earlier...are you going to be one of the posters with their panties in a bunch when you see the President's card this year? The last 4 years they have all read, "Happy Holidays". I look foward to your spittle laced thread about it this year.
No spittle. Just a sad recognition that even the Head of the Government that bestows the Holy Day Christmas with designation as one of ten federal Holidays has fallen prey to our PC times.
The designation of the Holy Day Christmas as a Holiday was done by the democratic process of a law passed by the Congress and signed by the President. This designation is the law of the land and the will of the people. If people like you don't like that law; or if you don't like uttering the official name of the Holiday that falls on December 25th, I suggest a letter-writing campaign to your Representatives and Senators. But, until you get the law reversed I suggest you honor the nation and the democratic institutions that have chosen to honor December 25th as Christmas Day. I can assure you that if Purim were to ever get a similar designation I would never, ever call it anything but P-U-R-I-M.
Blogs like this one help to expose the prejudices of people like you. Perhaps some future President, energized by a populace who gets to read your undemocratic and prejudicial words, will return to the words that were good enough for all Presidents from Washington to Nixon: Merry Christmas.