Tis the season and the Grinch is afoot
I went to a "Holiday Season Event" last night. To those of you more than 20 years old it would be the yearly Christmas Caroling at a
local Junior High School I will not use the schools name in order to protect the guilty. I can say guilty because, oh my $#@, they sang X-mas Carols.
Not exclusively X-mas carols, but now in King County "that just won't do!" to quote Pink Floyd.
So this morning, as I was waiting for the bus, I talked to one of my co-workers and I remarked how it was a nice show.
But on the way home, I got into a discussion with another co-worker about how much things have changed in regards to Christmas.
In 1984, by now, you would have CHRISTMAS decorations down Main Street, there would be flyers for Caroling,
Christmas shows and other events. As a kid, this was the busiest part of the year. If I wasn't in Choir, I was helping run the back stage equipment.
This is suppose to be the happy time of the year for EVERYONE but some people have other ideas.

Take Steven Sunborg's, Seattle PI Op-Ed piece.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/203722_sundborg15.html

In it, he states" The courts have decided that Christmas crib (or manger) displays in state-sponsored places violate
the constitutional separation of church and state. It is right that it should do so in order to protect the freedom of, and
from, religion for all Americans." Somehow, I managed to miss those rulings.
There is a US Supreme Court Rulings to that effect?
Especially the "and from, religion" part of his quote.

So just in case anyone has forgotten.
This country was started by people fleeing religious persecution.
They did not want a state religion like the "Church of England".
These people wanted the freedom to practice their own religion without persecution.
The Founding Fathers were very adamant that the peoples right to practice their traditions were sancrosant.
As in "NOT TO BE MESSED WITH."

But this was before the PC years of the 1990's.
Where you have to take away everyone's right to do something, if anyone complains about it.
So because of the PC NAZI's, there is a concerted effort to erase the traditions of America.
I can only hope that the trend will reverse itself in time. But until then I find it odd, that I saw
more Christmas spirit in Japan last year than here.


- posted by Mike @ 7:13 PM