By Connie Kaplan, RegainAmerica Staff Writer, December 18, 2006

Has Christmas in America become so "Politically Incorrect" it has gone underground for good?

Christmas in America.  For many, many years, a joyous, happy, and even exuberant time of year for millions of Americans.  Those of us old enough to remember the holiday season in the 40's, 50's, 60's, and even the 70's can remember a time when light poles were garlanded with greenery, when store windows showcased displays of cheery holiday scenes, when you could hear Christmas carols on the radio, and when the TV stations ran “It’s a Wonderful Life” no less than 137 times by Christmas Eve.

Christmas.  A holiday celebrated by millions and, moreover, an OFFICIAL federal holiday for the United States of America, although the ACLU, the secularists, and assorted atheists, would very much like us to forget. 

And now, each year brings with it the yearly Winter Break vs. Christmas showdown, as the anti-Christmas advocates kick off their anti-Christmas Season with their annual call to arms.  Each year the anti-Christmas advocates sally forth to do battle under the aegis of "Separation of Church and State".  Inevitably, lawsuits are filed and injunctions are requested as the season gets underway.  Injunctions that demand that creches and trees be taken down.  Lawsuits that demand that a Kwanzaa display be put up.  Lawsuits that say that it's permissible for a menorah and a Kwanzaa display to be on public property - as long as there is no tree.  Or injunctions that say vice versa.  Or lawsuits demanding that every single solitary item of any symbolic significance whatsoever be removed from any public building of any kind.

But in recent years the purist ideals of secularism, combined with the ever advancing behemoth of "Political Correctness" have led us down an ever more absurd path.

Yes.  Absurd.

You remember Christmas 2005.  This miserably memorable Christmas season was the Christmas that the Polically Correct pinheads succeeded in persuading the management of some major retail store chains that their customers, might, might, conceivably, be offended by the stores' employees wishing them a "Merry Christmas".  So, in a misguided but Politically Correct effort to avoid having even ONE individual take offense at being wished a "Merry Christmas" by a store employee, the employees of these stores were told that they absolutely were NOT to wish ANYONE a "Merry Christmas.  This last is so ridiculous that I feel compelled to say it again.

The employees of some large retail stores were told that they absolutely were NOT to wish anyone a “Merry Christmas”

But Christmas 2005 was just a warm-up for Christmas 2006.

Christmas 2006 found the students at Windmill Point Elementary School in Port St. Lucie Florida going without their Christmas play "A Penguin Christmas" altogether when their august principal, one Bernadette Floyd, "axed any mention of the word 'Christmas' in holiday festivals."  The district spokeswoman explained that Principal Floyd had decided to take a more "generic" approach to holidays.  Principal Floyd's "generic" approach also resulted in a Windmill Point parent reporting that her child had been told that he should not bring "Santa cupcakes, candy canes or other Christmas-themed treats to a 'holiday party'". 

And, that even donations of canned goods to the needy had to be wrapped in NEWSPAPER instead of traditional wrapping paper.

But as laughable as Principal Floyd's actions are, we can't afford to laugh.  That's because this kind of thing is happening more and more - and if those of us who want to be allowed to celebrate Christmas in at least some manner stop being vigilant - well, Christmas might disappear when we're not looking.

Those of us who want Christmas to continue being celebrated in America need to take firm, decisive and EFFECTIVE action when the kind of Politically Correct buffoonery described above occurs.  When Christmas 2007 arrives, we advocates of the Christmas season should be forewarned and forearmed.  Stores can be boycotted, as was the case with several of the stores affected in 2005 (The boycotts resulted in at least a partial reversal on the policies.)  We should pick up the shared power of the pen in the form of emails and letters to those who are in control.  School Boards.  PTA Officers.  Mall Management.  Store Management.  And of course our Elected Representatives.

In the meantime, we should all remember the following: 

• Christmas is STILL a federal American Holiday.
• There is still a National Christmas Tree in Washington.
• The word “God” still appears (for the moment) on our currency.

Separation of Church and State.

A hallmark of American jurisprudence?

Absolutely!

But shouldn't all the people of the United States feel free to celebrate, or not celebrate, the CHRISTMAS SEASON however they choose?

Absolutely!

That's the American way!

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