Happy X-mas!!
December 7th, 2005 by JoshIs it bad that this abolutely delights me?
This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy “holiday season.”
Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting inside. But some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings.
…Wildmon does not give retailers the same benefit of the doubt. This year, he has called for a consumer boycott of Target stores because the chain issued a holiday advertising circular that did not mention Christmas. Last year, he aimed a similar boycott at Macy’s Inc., which averted a repeat this December by proclaiming “Merry Christmas” in its advertising and in-store displays.
“It bothers me that the White House card leaves off any reference to Jesus, while we’ve got Ramadan celebrations in the White House,” Wildmon said. “What’s going on there?”
All I want for Christmas is a conservative Christian boycott of Georgie boy.
December 7th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
From blogger Ron Franscell at http://underthenews.blogspot.com …
As if a lurking bid-flu pandemic, Armageddon in the Middle East, and the hurricane carousel in the Gulf of Mexico weren’t important enough … we now have people who worry that the word “holidays” is murk-ifying the righteous Christian concept of Christmas.
Religious conservatives have their panties bunched tighter than an alcoholic elf on Christmas Eve. Why? Because the White House’s official 2005 Christmas card doesn’t use the word “Christmas” … which is to say, they think George Bush is afraid to use the word “Christ.” “This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture,” said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Humbug!
The President of the United States represents a wide spectrum of beliefs, from atheists to Muslims to Catholics to Budhhists to the most devout evangelical Christians. His personal religious beliefs are hardly a closely guarded secret — just ask the Radical Left. But he leads everyone, and in this case, he’s trying to be inclusive, not exclusive.
“The reality is you have people in Beaumont (Texas) that think the United States is a Christian country; it’s not,” a source recently told my newspaper. “It is a country that is founded on freedom of religion, but the truth is, if you look at what happens at Christmas time, there is very much a sense of Christianity.”
Anybody who’d elevate the pathetic “Christmas-vs-holidays” tiff to a major issue — a “war,” no less — needs to go to church for a time-out.