[lit-ideas] Re: Christmas Trees

  • From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:57:51 -0500

Eric Yost writes:

: Andreas quoted the NY Times: Religious
: conservatives are using Christmas for a political
: purpose: as a cudgel to push the prayers and
: displays of their own form of Christianity into
: public spaces, including public schools, and to
: make America more like a theocracy.
: 
: ________
: 
: That may well be, but it's still no reason to
: embrace the global corporate generic "holiday."

Right.  The solution is to say "Skoal Yule" or "Io
Saturnalia".

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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