Comments on: The War on Christmas

By: Suldog

Suldog — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:00 +0000

This article is now featured at:

http://bah-humbug.blogspot.com/2006/
12/carnival-of-hijacked-holidays-iv.html

Thank you for your submission!

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:31:00 +0000

Y’all have way too much time on your hands. Enjoy.

By: Sporty

Sporty — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:03:00 +0000

Don't believe Santa! His blog is satirical!

It's my blog which is the TRUE War on Christmas blog!!

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:36:00 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe that Santa visited me on my blog : ) I don’t know that anyone would be offended by anything you wrote (at least I certainly wasn’t). But it is, well, a little suspect.

Either way, I’ll check in on you and have fun with it.

Happy Holidays! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

By: Santa

Santa — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the mention. Just for the record…

We actually wanted to start a Christmas blog early last month. We installed Wordpress for the blog here
http://www.bloggingman2007.com/war-on-christmas/

You can check Google Cache to confirm the date the URL was created and the date the blog went live, even though it’s blank.

When I launched ConservaBlogs.com I decided that the Christmas blog would be more fitting on the CB domain instead of the BloggingMan domain. It just so happens that I found the post you speak of when I first went looking for things to blog. Hence the coincidence.

Oh! And I went back to read the first post and I can see where you’re coming from on saying that I kind of spoke down to some readers. I didn’t at all mean for it to sound that way. I’m no pro writer so sometimes that kind of thing happens without me knowing it.

Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to offend anyone.

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:29:00 +0000

I don’t know that I’d call it a “loophole.” It seems the very nature of the law. If you allow one group, you allow them all. I’d have to do a bit more research on it, but I don’t believe Falwell is necessarily the driving force here. There have been numerous cases which have been decided similarly in several states. To me, there is a marked difference between students handing out religious material and organizations simply handing over the materials to the school to be distributed to students.

Either way, it doesn’t really matter. This is a natural consequence of the decision. And it will be the same result with the faith-based initiatives, eventually. There is nothing stopping this organization from applying for federal funds for whatever it is they may be involved with to help with literacy issues, etc.

But on a very basic level, I don’t view the public education system as a community bulletin board. It really is an all or nothing issue…which means that we let the KKK in, too, I suppose. Or just stop sending this stuff home with students.

By: Kempis

Kempis — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:25:00 +0000

It’s important to note - which the WND article does not- that previously two elementary students at this school district tried to distribute fliers to their class to promote their church’s vacation bible school by way of the schools’ “backpack mail” process, used to send information home to kids’ parents. They weren’t allowed to, because of the schools’ prohibition on sending home “partisan, sectarian, religious, or political” fliers. The kids’ father got Jerry Falwell to go after the county, and facing an expensive lawsuit they knew they would lose the school board agreed to let religious groups distribute materials through the system.

So the pagan group is just taking advantage of a loophole that Jerry Falwell’s Christian organization opened up. Fair is fair.