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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [QB] [QUOTE]While it's certainly true that fifty years ago, no one would question a public nativity scene, you can bet someone would have burned down a minorah.[/QUOTE]A few years back, the Nativity scene set up in Balboa Park in San Diego was viciously defaced. Even Christians and their religious imagery don't get a free pass. [QUOTE]Though that did not preven religous right wingers from strongarming Target and Sears into promising to use the word "Christmas" this year instead of the more inclusive "Holiday Season".[/QUOTE]The whole Happy Holidays thing doesn't seem inclusive to me, it seems like studious avoidance of the phrase Merry Christmas. In my own personal experience, I've seen the phrase "Happy Hanukkah" on a store or public building more frequently than the phrase "Merry Christmas", although "Happy Holidays" is certainly the most common. I take absolutely no offense to practitioners of the Jewish faith being wished a Happy Hanukkah. Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing a "Happy Yom Kippur" sign this coming October. However, I do take offense that the very name of the holiday celebrated by the majority of Americans has somehow become "The Holiday that Shall Not Be Named". A good example of this occurred this past Christmas with the increasing tendency to call a Christmas Tree a "Holiday Tree". This is simply absurd. Neither Hanukkah nor Kwanzaa use trees, so why try to stuff a tree into their celebrations? I, and I believe many other Christians, would be infinitely happier to see a menorah and a Christams tree side-by-side rather than some watered-down, secularized "Holiday Tree". An example of the inclusiveness I'm referring to is President Bush's approach this past December. Rather than giving some general 'Holiday Address', President Bush gave separate Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa messages, with special references to the main points of each holiday. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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