Posted on 11/26/2007 8:25:29 AM PST by Dukes Travels
Now that the 2007 end-of-year holiday season is officially underway, I want to offer some heart-felt politically insensitive expressions of happiness and well wishes. Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
It seems that each year another distortion or misinterpretation of the First Amendment generates another attack on our end-of-year season for thanks to God, celebration and hope. These attacks are intended to put the rest of us on the defensive about our faith, culture and history, and claim a victory for political correctness.
The latest? A Washington state school district issued a memo to its teachers instructing them to tone down the “happy” in Happy Thanksgiving. Why? It was not a happy occasion for everyone when the Pilgrims paused to give thanks, so let’s not offend those who were not so happy on that first Thanksgiving.
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LOL!
Very witty essay! Merry Merry Christmas, Herman!
Every now and then there is a slight glimmer of hope.
I don't know...already, the advertisements this year have adopted the word "Holiday" as their catch-all, as in "What do YOU want for your Holiday gift this year?" or, "it's little Jimmy's first Holiday..."
Some hope though, is also mixed in. Radio Shack has a commerical in which children are singing a Christmas carol to their neighbor--albeit through a remote-controlled iPod-like device--I forget the exact carol, but it's religious in nature, and even has the word "God" in it.
Not real fond of that title and the "constitutional quacks" comment. The people trying to take the Christ out of Christmas believe the constitution is an "evolving, living and breathing document" that they only refer to when they can read something into it that desecrates America.
HAPPY! HAPPY! HAPPY! HAPPY! DAMN HAPPY!!! THANKSGIVING to all!!
I wonder if the war on Christmas will be abandoned early again this year. I have yet to hear a Christmas Warrior attack the Godless NCAA and its Holiday Bowl. It should be called the Christmas Bowl since it is played while we are still basking in the afterglow of celebrating our Lord’s birth. Not fighting for a name change makes Touchdown Jesus cry.
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