“How the religious right stole Christmas”

Sandhya Bathija, Communications Associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, writes at AlterNet: “The bombastic Fox News host declared that Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire had ‘insulted Christians all over the world’ when she ‘allowed’ a Winter Solstice display to stand next to a Christmas tree and a Nativity scene in the state’s capitol building. But what O’Reilly failed to acknowledge in his op-ed for The Washington Times was that Gregoire was just doing her job. She was enforcing a court order that stemmed from a case between the state and O’Reilly’s friends at the Alliance Defense Fund.