"Winter Closure"

Thomas Sowell made recent mention of what a lot of us noticed a long time ago: the heathen determination to purge any mention of or reference to, no matter how oblique or tangential, Jesus Christ in or for several months either side of the Christmas season:

It was just a small thing but I was taken aback when I received a memo saying that the offices at work would be shut down during "winter closure." Then it dawned on me that "winter closure" was what we used to call "Christmas vacation."

Various colleges and universities have long since stopped calling it the Christmas vacation. A large shopping mall in San Francisco was decked out in all sorts of holiday decorations, including a huge tree, with Santa Claus sitting next to it - but nowhere was there that now-controversial phrase, "Merry Christmas."

The idea is that any mention of Christmas might offend people who are not Christians - and that this should be avoided at all costs. ...

Christmas is now one of many things that make us walk on eggshells during this supposedly liberated era. Are we all wimps?

No, we're just fine. All we're doing is exercising our First Amendment right to free expression and religious liberty. It is "they" who demand that we accept their cultural rot, celebrity idolatry, rampant immorality, and now homosexual "marriage" who are themselves so bigoted against and intolerant of us that they cannot bear to even listen to people wish each other a "merry Christmas."

I expounded on the topic at length a full ten years ago. Amazing how so little has changed in all that time.

Senators McCain and Feingold banned political speech within sixty days of elections and the SCOTUS declared that evisceration of the First Amendment "constitutional." Maybe they'll do the same thing vis-a-vie Christmas and save the ACLU all the trouble.

Talk about making the book of Acts come alive.