If all retailers stay open on Christmas, so that it's just like a regular shopping day - like it was any Monday or any Saturday in the middle of August - of COURSE IT WILL DIMINISH THE SPECIALNESS AND REVERENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRISTMAS.
If you allow someone else to determine the "specialness" and reverence and significance of Christmas for you then is it truly special for you?
Thanks for your efforts to get through to the culturally challenged here.
I give up. One of my daughters just called and wants me to go with her and her boys to cut the Christmas tree. That sounds like more fun than trying to get through to these moroons.
The thing that disturbs me more than anything else is that half or more of the people on this, supposedly, conservative forum just don't get it. What does it mean anymore to be conservative?
BTW, my wife is a nurse and unfortunately for us, has to work about every other Christmas. That's just our tiny cross to bear, but has NOTHING to do with issue at hand.
You seem awfully attached to the world.