Merry Christmas! There. I said it. It felt good. With the assault upon all things Christmas during the past few years, including the very greeting itself, I’ve determined that the phrase “Happy Holidays” is to be stricken from my vocabulary forever. Anyone who might be offended by the wish of good tidings from someone else’s religious celebration has a serious problem. I said, anyone who feels offended has a serious problem.
My Jewish friends have often wished me Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah and I have happily replied in kind. Some of my Jewish friends even have Christmas Trees of their own and the family exchanges gifts. My friend Noah calls his tree a “Hanukah Bush” but not a “Holiday Tree”. That’s the latest anti-Christmas attack; people are decorating “Holiday Trees”. Sorry atheists, agnostics and loony P.C. Leftists…it is, was and always will be a “Christmas Tree”. Hanukah Bush is okay too, in the caring context of my good friend Noah…not the result of some politically motivated judicial decree. I would proudly display a Menorah, if the occasion arose, as long as no one insisted I call it a Holiday Candle Receptacle.
Santa Claus lives for all of us…and may be the only one who actually knows what and when Kwanza is. A wish for a “Happy Kwanza” [or whatever the appropriate phrasing] is as valid as glad tidings from anyone of any religious persuasion. We’re a nation founded upon religious principle and offering religious freedom. Nowhere is it written that four nutjobs have the right to ruin a holiday…any holiday…for four million.
If they don’t like the Creche on my front lawn, let them avert their eyes. If they don’t like Christmas music, I’ll buy them ear plugs. If they need therapy because their lobotomies are leaking, I’m afraid they’re on their own. Just don’t go trying to jam your minority view down my throat with some American Criminal Liberties Union slip ‘n fall lawyer, don’t anyone tell me I can’t say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah or Happy New Year…and don’t make me push “two” to hear any of it back in English. Not in my country. Not in America! That I do find offensive.
Whichever holiday you happen to celebrate at this marvelous time of year, make tolerance a part of the magic and carry the feeling with you always.
From our home to your home, God bless you and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
– Roger Scott Francis and Family
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