The Christmas Kerfuffle.

I haven’t said much about the repeated and persistet efforts by some to remove Christmas from the public vocabulary on the grounds of “separating church and state”. That’s generally been for a couple reasons.

1) According to the first amendment, Congress can’t make a law respecting an establishment of religion. To date, none of the anti-Christmas crew has managed to tell me how a creche on a local government property or a Christmas Carol being sung in school is an act of Congress nor which establishment of religion is being respected by this. Until they do, their opinions holds no weight with me at all. They’re just showing themselves to be Constitutional illiterates as far as I’m concerned.

2) I’m honestly baffled by how someone can contend that a child in a school hearing a Christmas Carol can have their psyche damaged to any extent whatsoever. It’s not, after all, like we’re telling them that their own “holiday” celebration is invalid, or even unwelcome. In fact, most school programs of which I’m aware, take great pains to include Hanukah songs (which, I’m told is looked upon fairly humorously by serious adherenst to Judaism considering that of all the Jewish holidays, Hanukah’s probably the least important), non-sectarian winter songs (to celebrate, I suppose, snow and cold weather), and even Kwaanza songs (which all seem to include African folk songs which strikes me as odd since Kwanzaa is an American invention and most folks in Africa have no idea what it is). So most school systems are being as inclusive as possible, yet the complaining parties are not because of some perceived horrible damage that hearing “Away in a Manger” could do to the delicate sensibilities of a 7 year-old.

To those points Charles Krauthammer speaks pretty eloquently today. His column is well worth reading.

Oh yes.

Merry Christmas.

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