Political Correctness Clashes with Christmas - Again

And Other New "Intolerances for the Sake of Tolerance"

Well, it looks like the "PC" Grinch is declaring war on Christmas once again. This Christmas season, The American Humanist Association has plastered negative ads about God on metro buses in Washington DC. The "Godless Holiday Campaign" ad states: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness sake." The slogan will appear on Washington, D.C., buses through the month of December, with a picture of a lady in a Santa costume. The AHA is using the reason that agnostics and atheists are lonely during the holidays.

Lots of people are lonely during the holidays, even religious people. Surely there is another way to help those who have no religious affiliation besides insulting those who do.

Within the last decade or so, children have been incorrectly prohibited from singing Christmas songs (as well as songs at other times of year) with the word "God" or "Christ" even though their whole class has been told to "pick whatever song they want". Choirs have refrained from singing Christmas carols that mention the Christ child. Wal-Mart, Target and other stores have refused to use the word "Christmas" and then, in the face of boycotts, reclaimed the word. This year, Costco (a membership retail chain with over 520 stores) is refusing to use the word because it "may insult those who don't observe Christmas".

Well, how about the people that DO observe Christmas? Don't they have the right to be insulted? Plus, at the cost of not mentioning Christmas, in order to appear "unbiased", many of these stores have done away with mentioning Hanukkah, too.

This is all due to a gross misunderstanding of the phrase "separation of church and state" which doesn't even exist in the First Amendment but in the decisions of renegade judges since the 1950's who have been convincing people of its new meaning. And many believe what they hear.