Texas
has passed a new law that ensures its residents are free to use the holiday
greeting of their choice- “merry Christmas,” “happy Hanukkah” or “happy
holidays.” Amazing.
According
to a report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the legislature wanted to make sure
that students can exchange traditional holiday greetings- and display Christmas
trees, menorahs and Nativity scenes at school as long as more than one religion and a secular symbol are included-
without fear of sparking a lawsuit. Those crazy, right-wing zealots! How do
they get away with this stuff- in America of all places?
Why the
need for the law? State Representative Matt Krause said, “It’s unfortunate we
got to a place where we had to have a law that says it’s ok to say, ‘Merry
Christmas’, but we started to see no Christmas trees, instead holiday trees,
and people couldn’t sing ‘Silent Night’, changing the words to ‘cold night.’”
‘Cold night’ isn’t a neutered,
unemotional, ‘inoffensive’ replacement of ‘Silent Night’, in this case it is very nearly the antithesis of it.
A
winter party held last year at a Frisco elementary school banned any mention of
Christmas and prohibited Christmas trees as
well as the colors red and green.
You banned those ultra-religious colors red and green? That should have
made everyone see red. What if black
was included, or yellow? Would that have been ok? What if the green was meant
in tribute to Islam? Banned colors?!
Colors? What’s next, we ban the numbers 9 and 7?
Many
say the law wasn’t needed. “I think it’s stupid,” said Terri Burke, executive
director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Texas. “There is no ‘war on
Christmas.’ There’s no need for this law.
“It is
just such frivolity,” she said. “There are important
things for the Legislature to work on, and this isn’t it.”
Like
what, Terri? Making sure abortion is legal? “There is no ‘war on abortion’,
Terri.”
And,
by-the-way, God had a choice. He
chose a birth…that we all may live.
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