The sad part is that those of us defending traditions, and Christmas in particular, never take to the streets, perform geurilla theater, protest, or picket those who want to take away our right to freely assemble as we wish however we wish to freely exercise our right to religion.
We had a guy at our school who wanted to take away the Christmas tree and put up a “peace tree” instead, because, he said, there are people who don’t celebrate Christmas. He was flooded with e-mails from those of us who told him (using the values of the enemy against him, as Alinsky told us) that he had no right to impose his morality on us, that he had no right to oppress the beliefs of others, and that he had no right to prevent freedom of speech and expression and religion. Then we put up the tree.
If conservatives actually defended themselves, we’d be surrounding the homes of anti-Christmas lawyers and politicians singing carols at 2 a.m. and throwing candy canes on their lawns in protest. We’d be handing out the Christmas story from the Bible to crowds at city council meetings. We’d be publishing cartoons showing caricatured liberals as Mao and Pol Pot and Castro kicking the manger over with the Christ child in the mud, crying. We’d hand out little trees as signs of our protests. Instead of a pink ribbon for AIDS research, how about a little Christmas wreath for the lapel? Why not have roving gangs of activists shouting “Merry Christmas!” to boards and commissions and businesses which ban the practice?
I mean, c’mon. Defend yourselves.
Militant Christmas activists....
I like it! What’s the ACLU going to do, say “That’s not what we meant when we defend the First Amendment right to protest!!”
Of course, throw candy canes on a atheist gay liberal’s lawn and we’re all guilty of “hate crimes”.
Or how about, “Merry Christmas! You got a problem with that?”
No, I only wish a Merry Christmas to those whom I know will welcome and appreciate it. Some are Jewish. One remarked, “So what does a Nativity scene depict? A nice Jewish family of the House of David!”