Thursday, December 16, 2004
Christmas fight back
Political correctness and strong anti-Christian activists have been having a field day in the Western world the last few Christmases. Sydney's Lord Mayor banned the words "Merry Christmas" from the council's festive cards for fear of offending non-Christians; a Scottish hospital refused to distribute a free CD of Christmas songs because it mentioned baby Jesus; public officials are being told to wish people "happy holiday"; and on it goes.
But an article in The Scotsman points to a fight back. For example, The Sun, Britain’s most popular red-top newspaper, launched its own campaign to save Christmas. It lambasted the Red Cross for not allowing staff to put up Advent calendars if they contained pictures of anything connected with Christmas. It scorned Whitehall officials who decreed there should be no decorations in "customer-facing" offices in job centres over concerns that non-Christians might be offended. Sydneysider Peter Rush has become something of a folk hero by defying civic wrath and writing the words "Merry Christmas" in chalk on Sydney Town Hall. His one-man protest has now attracted the support of the Sydney Daily Telegraph which last week urged its readers to buy chalk and scrawl the message all over the city’s municipal buildings.
We need to vigorously oppose the kill-joys!
Political correctness and strong anti-Christian activists have been having a field day in the Western world the last few Christmases. Sydney's Lord Mayor banned the words "Merry Christmas" from the council's festive cards for fear of offending non-Christians; a Scottish hospital refused to distribute a free CD of Christmas songs because it mentioned baby Jesus; public officials are being told to wish people "happy holiday"; and on it goes.
But an article in The Scotsman points to a fight back. For example, The Sun, Britain’s most popular red-top newspaper, launched its own campaign to save Christmas. It lambasted the Red Cross for not allowing staff to put up Advent calendars if they contained pictures of anything connected with Christmas. It scorned Whitehall officials who decreed there should be no decorations in "customer-facing" offices in job centres over concerns that non-Christians might be offended. Sydneysider Peter Rush has become something of a folk hero by defying civic wrath and writing the words "Merry Christmas" in chalk on Sydney Town Hall. His one-man protest has now attracted the support of the Sydney Daily Telegraph which last week urged its readers to buy chalk and scrawl the message all over the city’s municipal buildings.
We need to vigorously oppose the kill-joys!
