christmas-health-monitor.jpgWe’ve been reading a lot of anxious seasonal handwringing over the last few years about the impending demise of Christmas at the hands of God-hating secular humanists, atheistic MSM, and devious multicultural forces who hate all that is Good and True About Our Civilization.

It’s funny, because I haven’t noticed it. I usually say Merry Christmas to people, and not once has anyone ever snapped at me “It’s KWANZA, honkey mufuh!” Last year I attended two school pageants, one here in Ottawa and one in Northern Ontario. The Ottawa one was called a Christmas pageant, and had Jesus and Mangers and sheperds and all that good stuff: the northern Ontario one combined Christian, Aboriginal and Hanukkah images and songs (reflecting the makeup of the school).

However, last year many of the Christian Hyperconservative blogs (you know, the kind with piglets on them) were frothing with rage. Some school in California had forbidden some little kid from singing Christmas carols. Entire districts were being forced at gunpoint to chant Islamic Psalms and don burkhas. Pretty scary stuff. Obvious evidence of the triumph of the secular demons over God Fearing believers.

Well, here at SL, we like the idea of people of any religion celebrating their beliefs, and we don’t have a problem with Christians calling Christmas “Christmas” at all.

So we’re instituting the the Official Stageleft Christmas Health Monitor this year. To all those folks who feel that their right to celebrate Christmas as they see fit is being crushed: let us know. We’ll collect your evidence for the persecution of Christmas.

Here are a couple of guidelines, though.
- You don’t get to complain when an institution decides to recognize or celebrate other festivals in addition to Christmas.
- Provide a source.
- It doesn’t count if public tax dollars are denied in funding xmas activities or displays; the public purse belongs to the public and is secular.

But otherwise, go nuts. If Christians are actually being denied their right to celebrate Christmas, we want to know.


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