I saw the controversy a week or two
ago wherein some Muslims complained that Christmas was listed on some school
board's annual calendar and they wanted their holidays added. So I went and
checked our local school board's calendar and Christmas isn't there either -
and hasn't been for years, or so I'm told.
Are you telling me we can't even
acknowledge our official state and federal holidays anymore? Are you guys okay
with that?
Oklahoma was the last state to make
Christmas an official state holiday in 1907. Of course, Alaska and Hawaii
didn't become states until the late 1950s but as territories they had already
made Christmas an official holiday even before 1907. Congress made Christmas an
official federal holiday in 1870.
For my entire 12 years of public
education up through 1976 we were always out of school for the "Christmas
Holiday," not a winter break or a "holiday for all."
There really is something wrong with
the PC belief that we have to scrub our calendars, offices and government
institutions of all references to our state and federal "Christmas
Holiday" in order to be inclusive...isn't that pretty exclusive and
discriminatory of Christians as well as our American history, traditions,
heritage and culture. If "being inclusive" means denying who and what
we are then I want no part of it.
And including Christmas would not mean
we have to include religious holidays from other religions and Associate
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story told us why in 1833: