Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Inhofe, cavalryman in the "War For Jesus Christ-mas"

Inhofe refuses to participate in 'holiday' parade | Tulsa World:

Sen. Inhofe on his high horse.

'I did not do so last year because I'm not going to ride in a Christmas parade that doesn't recognize Christmas,' he said. 'I am hopeful that the good people of Tulsa and the city's leadership will demand a correction to this shameful attempt to take Christ, the true reason for our celebration, out of the parade's title. Until the parade is again named the Christmas Parade of Lights, I will not participate.'
Inhofe once famously criticized Trent Lott for apologizing for his (Lott's) vote against making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday. We know when MLK was born. We know MLK actually existed. MLK was an American hero of the first order. None of these things can be said about Inhofe's favorite zombie demi-god. Yet, Inhofe demands the country celebrate Christmas the entire month of December to the exclusion of all other other religious and secular practices?

Look, I'm an atheist, but we trimmed a tree this past weekend. My kids will get presents on December 25th. Like it or not, Christmas has become a secular holiday. Christians, of course, can and should continue to celebrate Christmas as they see fit; they don't need anybody's permission to do so. Do your thing, have a blast -- nobody is forcing you to do anything you don't want to do. But STFU about how I do my thing. I don't give a shit about what you say the holiday is about, and you can't make me. (And, fuck you for trying.)

When it comes to public, government-sponsored functions, it's important to remember that the public includes many people who don't share your faith, and our government, which represents me as well as you, is not in the Promote Your Religion business despite how much you would clearly like it to be. This insistence that everybody should have to focus on, and presumably believe in, the "Christ" in "Christmas" is exclusionary and makes you look petty and mean. You have churches in which to praise your deity and celebrate his birth; nobody is telling you how to celebrate the holiday with your co-religionists or in your home. Stop telling the rest of us how to celebrate our desire for peace on Earth and goodwill towards all.

There is no "War on Christmas" except in your persecution complex-riddled imaginations. The whining about it makes me wish there really was one.
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