Good news for Christmas.
This story was in the Duluth News Tribune, www.duluthnews.com.
Fair warning to any public official who renames a Christmas tree a "holiday tree": You may get a call from one of hundreds of lawyers lined up by Christian legal groups to defend Christmas against those they say are bent on purging it from the holiday season.
Two groups, Liberty Counsel, affiliated with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, and the Alliance Defense Fund, say they have almost 1,600 lawyer-volunteers between them ready to battle what some conservative Christians view as a secular movement against nativity scenes, Christmas trees and even the greeting "Merry Christmas."
Started three years ago, this year's campaign will be the groups' largest effort yet. But the lawyers may have their work cut out for them. According to some people, public use of the phrase "Merry Christmas" is already going the way of the one-horse open sleigh.
"I used to say 'Merry Christmas' but now I don't," said Candice Barrera, a hospital therapist who was admiring the nativity scene in Chicago's Daley Plaza.
"It's drilled into you that you need to be culturally sensitive," she said. "For my family, I still say 'Merry Christmas.' "
I am sorry for all the topics about Christmas but it is one thing that makes my blood boil is always having to be political correct and pandering to the minority groups. It needs to stop not just on Christmas but many other issues as well.
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this has got to be one of the most asinine concepts i have ever heard of. rediculous.
this 'liberal' war on doesn't exist. it's another distraction, a point of division just like gay marriage and social security.
no one's telling you that you or anyone else who observes Christmas that you can't say "Merry Christmas." If you walk down the aisles in Target, Kmart, Walgreens and the rest of them, you'll see Merry Christmas on wrapping paper, cards and decorations.
So far this year, I've heard of no instances of there being a conflict between a group of Christians and their nativity scenes and people who don't want to see it. Please, if this is the case, cite one instance, corroborated by two seperate and independent news sources, of any sort of legal action being raised by this issue.
No one wants to sue Christians over Christmas, no one wants to stop you from celebrating Christmas.
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