According to Fox News, famed fireworks company Grucci will not be donating fireworks during the town's annual Christmas Parade as they've changed the name to Holiday Parade.
Sounds petty, right? But
"The company's vice president, Philip Butler, who has criticized the secularization of Christmas in the past, said parade organizers were "using all the themes of Christmas and plagiarizing all those themes."I think that's a rather reasonable concern since the Grucci company is making a donation to a Christmas celebration, not a holiday one.
This news story has inspired me to suggest that perhaps we should put Christmas to a vote.
The name of this parade event was changed "after complaints that the use of "Christmas" seemed to make the parade less inclusive.".
I am all for freedom of religion. My daughter is the only Christian in an all Muslim Girl Scout Troop. But no one's religious freedom is imposed upon when one religious group has a public holiday celebration - as far as I am aware anyone can submit a proposal to their local government to organize, say, a Hanukkah parade.
The folks who complain use either the "inclusive" tactic which is always bogus because they do not hold other religions to the same "inclusive" standards that they do Christians.
Or we get complaints about the separation of church and state needing to be maintained. Which is also a bogus argument because our Founding Fathers separated the two to keep the STATE OUT of the church, not the other way around.
As we need to be reminded every once in a while, America is a democracy. Majority rules. Next time someone complains about a MAJOR religious holiday in this country, let's let the locals vote on it.
Perhaps in communities where Christianity is not the majority, public Christmas events will not occur (they probably weren't anyways). But in other communities, Christmas events can happen publicly because the majority of the people voted to celebrate Christmas publically.
Like that dedicated atheist who tried to get God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, this kind of rule by "I'm offended" is a trend that must be squelched. I'm offended by lots of stuff but I tolerate it because I also believe in Free Speech (not in my house from my kids but in every other way).
So next time someone at the town hall meeting complains about public Christmas displays, suggest that the town put it to a vote. "It's a Wonderful Life" we have here in America. Maybe "A Miracle on 34th Street" will happen and "Santa Clause is Coming to Town."
(I know, I know)
Vote, YES for Christmas.
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