Give us back Christmas
By John Horgan
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 at 4:33 pm in Uncategorized.
It’s getting to the point where Christmas references aren’t just avoided like a bad case of herpes on the Peninsula, they are positively shunned. Officials bend over backwards not to give even a hint of cultural offense. Christmas displays have morphed into “winter celebrations.” Christmas trees are “holiday trees.” Manger scenes are definitely out of favor. And Santa Claus isn’t welcome on many public school campuses. St. Nick is treated like some vile denizen of the Megan’s Law Web site, a sort of neighborhood pervert in a red suit. His unfortunate reindeer have no animal rights cachet whatsoever. And you can forget about the height-challenged elves. They are barely mentioned any more even though you could argue that at least they can claim to be a rather unique minority group all on their own. Fortunately, kids don’t seem to be all that confused. They still have a clue. Usually, that’s courtesy of their parents who take such matters into their own hands. Thank goodness.
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December 19th, 2007 at 9:33 am
John - I totally agree with you. CHRISTmas is alive and well at my house. We have a beautiful CHRISTmas tree and we will leave cookies by it for SANTA. All this ‘to-do’ in my house
is in celebration of the birth of JESUS CHRIST. Thats for our family. Our neighbors
just celebrate but are not of any particular faith. Thats o.k. by me. Many of my other friends
and neigbhbors celebrate other “winter holidays” some along with CHRISTmas, some without
CHRISTmas. Thats o.k. by me - I still abide by the Freedoms we’ve been given and have nearly
been given back.
John,sometimes, don’t you look at this beautiful Peninsula and wonder what’s going on?
MERRY CHRISTMAS, JOHN AND READERS
December 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Public officials are simply paranoid about protests, gripes, whining and lawsuits from the cultural left in these parts. Professional agnostics, atheists and others who can’t stand even a hint of religion are among the most intolerant people on the planet. That’s why you can make an argument that the Peninsula and Bay Area generally are among the most biased and blatantly close-minded regions extant. And most people in this liberal bastion see themselves as precisely the opposite. Strange, and ironic, to say the least.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Are our public officials laying low and declining the opportunity to weigh in on this?
Well John, to you I wish a blessed Christmas and to them happy frigid Tudsday.
December 24th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Peg is being nice.
John, you are a right wing nutcase and blowhard.
I also think you are an idiot spending Christmas Eve in a very un-Christ like manner. He taught forgiveness, love, and getting along.
You are the one destroying Christmas, you freak!
I want Jerry Fuchs back.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Thank you for making the case for me. Could not have summed up the unhappy other side of the debate more succinctly.