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In my hometown, the local university lit up their "Holiday Tree" this year just like they have done every year for the past several years (BIG ceremony with singing and speeches and hot chocolate, etc.). And they've always called it a "Holiday Tree." However, this year they suddenly made it onto the hit list of the Christmas Soldiers and boycotts were threatened, letters written, television reports filed, and donations pulled back. Next year, they'll have a Christmas Tree, even though nobody really cared (or even noticed) until this year that it was a "Holiday Tree."
Weird.
Now, on the flip side of that, I'm disappointed in businesses that are afraid of the word "Christmas" and they've trained and threatened all their employees to avoid the word at all costs.
It's the same mistake as above, just on a different side of the river.
If a Jewish person made a remark about lighting a menorah, would you jump up his ass and tell him it's a "Holiday Candlestick Holder?" Therefore, if the non-Christians would lighten up a little bit, then the Christian weirdos wouldn't have anything to protest and boycott (in theory). Let Christians have Christmas, let Jews have Hannukah, let Africans have Kwanzaa, and let Muslims have Eid El Fitr.
People always get into trouble when they start trying to ban things that belong to other folks. But then again, some people live for that shit.
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