Stop That Singing in Whoville!
Fri, 07 Dec 2007
As Jordan explains in his post, the ACLU and its allies have a new spin on their anti-Christmas bias: “Christmas defenders should just shut up.” That’s right, those bastions of free and open public debate have started a marketing campaign to repair their tarnished image, not by defending their attempts to expel religion from the public square, but by telling America that there is no war on Christmas and that Christians should just shut their traps.
The ACLU’s website is stuffed full like santa’s bag with their latest Madison Avenue talking points, which explain that it spoils their “Christmas cheer” when people actually challenge the anti-Christmas culture. This is like the Grinch telling the residents of Whoville: “stop that singing, I have a headache!”
When nativity scenes are banned from public spaces, when school children can’t sing “Silent Night,” and when stores expunge all references to Christmas from their catalogs, the ACLU and its allies tell Americans to just shut up, there is no war on Christmas.
Actually, the secularists have never used the word “Christmas” so many times before, it must be painful for them. No wonder they are so grumpy. But to you Americans who are tired of thinking twice about whether you can say “Merry Christmas,” the secularists just want you to go away. Their Christmas message to you is “Marvin K. Mooney Will You PLEASE GO NOW!”
Secularists are not used to people challenging them or their radical interpretation of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. In court or on campus, their “tolerance” is dogmatically intolerant of open religious expression. But when people challenge them with common sense, common sense prevails. So they would rather you just keep a very silent night, and day, every day, during this Christmas season. Then they will have something to cheer about.