the war on Christmas

Have you noticed every year about this time, the "political correctness" people try to take the “Christ” out of “Christmas”.

Denny Hastart, the speaker of the House in Washington finally put his foot down and decided the holiday tree would again be called the Christmas tree in our nation’s capital. The tree was changed to the "holiday tree" sometime the 1990’s.

The news article below was regarding a Wisconsin public school came from citizenlink.com -

Think you've heard it all when it comes to the war on
Christmas? Not if you haven't heard what a Wisconsin
public school has done to "Silent Night."

The powers that be at Ridgeway Elementary, it seems, were
so offended by the lyrics to the song, which detail the
miracle of Christ's birth, that they rewrote them. The
version to be performed by children during this year's
"winter program" is called "Cold in the Night" and goes
something like this:

"Cold in the night, no one in sight/winter winds whirl and
bite/How I wish I were happy and warm/safe with my family,
out of the storm."

Here in Jax, the cities of Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach had refused to allow a nativity scene to be displayed beside the Christmas tree and the menorah. A citizen took the cities to court over this, and the cities decided yesterday to change their mind and will now allow the nativity scene.

Along this line, most retail stores are only advertising “holiday” sales this year. The American Family Association announced yesterday that they are lifting the boycott of Target since Target has changed their ad policy and will be using “Christmas” in their ads for the next two weeks. Target, you remember, refused to allow the Salvation Army bell ringers at their stores last year. This year they have a link on their website to let you donate to the Salvation Army on line. Congrats to Dillards on being the first store in our area to advertise “Christmas” sales this week. Maybe that is where we will do most of our gift shopping this season…