more on this fake Chistmas controversy
Liberals like Christmas too, at least most of
us
The problem isn't that people celebrate
Christmas, actually, most liberals do to. What many people, including me, object
to is that Christians demand that Christmas be celebrated and that all other
holidays are excluded. It isn't that liberals hate Christmas, its that
Christians hate Chanukah and Kwanza and Eastern Orthodox Christmas and basically
anything that they don't celebrate. You wanna sing Christmas songs in school,
excellent. Whoop de doo, just please don't force the non-Christian children to
sing about how great Christ was. There are about a zillion non-religious
Christmas songs. How about singing them instead? How about tossing in "Dredyl,
Dredyl, Dredyl" while you are at and maybe just some nice winter songs? What
scares me is that the Christian right isn't just demanding that they be allowed
to celebrate their holiday in a government sponsored setting against all
measures of Church/State issues that our country was founded upon. It is that
the right considers anything that isn't Christian to be evil and demands that
their children aren't exposed to it. Remember that flap about the southern
university giving the Koran as reading in their comparative religion class?
This country was founded upon the
belief that all people should be allowed to worship as they please without
government intervention or backlash. You wanna dance with snakes or play loud
gospel music in your church, go for it. More power to you. Just don't force me
to do it if I don't want to. It is in the freaking bible: "Do unto others as you
would have others do unto you." Right now, the religious right is doing a lot
unto me that I don't think they'd be happy me doing onto them.
Posted: Thu - December
23, 2004 at 03:36 PM
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