http://risaaratyr.com/blog/2008/12/28/church-and-state/ risa's writerly life Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://risaaratyr.com/blog/2008/12/28/church-and-state/comment-page-1/#comment-168 aratyr Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:43:11 +0000 http://risaaratyr.com/blog/?p=228#comment-168 Good point, and yes, it's despicable of the "Merry Christmas" movement to claim its proponents are victims of social discrimination when their intent is to practice social discrimination under the guise of seasonal goodwill. But I expect racism out of racists; I expect sexism out of misogynists. The "Merry Christmas" stuff that blind-sides me is the "Santa Claus isn't religious, Christmas trees aren't Christian" statements made by egalitarian humanists, like my own husband. Good point, and yes, it’s despicable of the “Merry Christmas” movement to claim its proponents are victims of social discrimination when their intent is to practice social discrimination under the guise of seasonal goodwill. But I expect racism out of racists; I expect sexism out of misogynists. The “Merry Christmas” stuff that blind-sides me is the “Santa Claus isn’t religious, Christmas trees aren’t Christian” statements made by egalitarian humanists, like my own husband.

]]> http://risaaratyr.com/blog/2008/12/28/church-and-state/comment-page-1/#comment-167 blairza Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:53:31 +0000 http://risaaratyr.com/blog/?p=228#comment-167 Well it's also an attack on the efforts of many to make this country welcoming to all. The society that insisted that every one "enjoy a Merry Christmas" is one that regularly employed covenants to discriminate against Jews and Blacks in housing and employment. The "happy holidays" that some find so offensive is just the corperate community recognizing the multi-cultural nature of it's market. What might really be offending the folks who want "merry Christmas" to reign is the obvious fact that there's no seperate and unequal line that they can stand in. Well it’s also an attack on the efforts of many to make this country welcoming to all. The society that insisted that every one “enjoy a Merry Christmas” is one that regularly employed covenants to discriminate against Jews and Blacks in housing and employment. The “happy holidays” that some find so offensive is just the corperate community recognizing the multi-cultural nature of it’s market. What might really be offending the folks who want “merry Christmas” to reign is the obvious fact that there’s no seperate and unequal line that they can stand in.

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