WoC

Adam Cohen:

Religious conservatives are using Christmas for a political purpose: as a cudgel to push the prayers and displays of their own form of Christianity into public spaces, including public schools, and to make America more like a theocracy.

The Christmas defenders' real enemy is not secularism, but inclusiveness. Department stores have been using phrases like "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" because they want to make themselves appealing to as many customers as possible — including the nearly one-quarter of Americans who do not call themselves Christians — not because they hate Christmas. Governments walk a careful line regarding holidays because they don't want to fall afoul of the First Amendment, and because they want to make all of their constituents feel included in holiday celebrations.

Falwell even is offering free legal help to those "persecuted for celebrating Christmas." And of couse its those damn Jews fault, who according to O'Leilly "gotta go to Israel" if they don't want to proselytized to in school.

The Bush's sent out generic Christmas cards to supporters, which stated have a happy Holiday season instead of Merry Christmas. The horrors.

The response from the kooks:

"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 A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Covert you hell-bound Jews and Muslims, or ship out.

Happy Holidays.