The American Princess on "Christmas for Christians"

The American Princess makes too much sense. It won't be long before Reasonable Christmas-haters kick in her door and drag her from the keyboard kicking and screaming. After all, she refuses to accept the Agenda. She will not bow down before the Absolute Individual and recognize that all there is is Nothing. She won't admit that Reasonable people can decide right from wrong based on their own criteria. They won't suffer Fools like her gladly.

That's why I join my laughter at their absurdity with hers:

No suprise, really. Leftism hates religion because your religion is your government. There is no God but the State, and you are its people. Why rely on something so simplistic as religion, the opiate of the people? All it does is make you self-reliant, hopeful, and unfortunately, adherent to a proscribed set of morals and values. Damn you, religion. You are standing in the way of all kinds of "tolerant" liberal values, from gay marriage, to abortion rights, to Universal health care. None of which happen to be very "relgious."

So they're out to banish it.

But still, without fail, every year, retailers are squeamish about putting Merry Christmas on sign, teacher rethink the holiday choir concert to exclude any mention of a holiday season, towns debate about putting a creche up in the town square. And it looks like Christians have no way out.

But...you do have a way out. And here are a few pointers*:

--There are rules in this country about private property. If its on private property, it is private property. Nobody can make you take down your own Christmas diplay if its on...get it...your property. If anyone tells you otherwise, and you do not live in a "housing community" (like an apartment, condo, etc where you have part-ownership agreements), you have every right to plaster your lawn with a giant Nativity scene, the three Wise Men, and a chorus of angels and saints, two Santas and an Easter Bunny for good measure.

--You have rights, and you should exercise them. You also have power. Accepting a banishment of Christmas from your local retailer is all in your court. It worked with Wal-Mart, it'll work with any national chain of retailers in the country. The last thing that is acceptable is acceptance: letter writing and calling might seem a little nitpicky, but if enough people do it, it not only grabs attention, it gets change. This works for most school districts, city governments, and town councils, and neighborhood watch programs.

--As the majority, its awful nice of you to include the minority, but you don't have to destroy your own life to appease it. In this country, we have a democracy (okay, its more of a republic than anything but you get what I mean), and that generally means that majority wins with minority rights, as in, they don't get to be oppressed (darn it). They can sue for those rights to a degree, as in, they can sue to be included. They can't sue to make you take the gosh darn thing down, or make you wipe Christmas from the calendar.

--The Supreme Court has ruled hundreds of times on exactly this problem, and every time, even the most religious of displays has been able to stand, so long as the minority is at least represented, or the religious display is counteracted by secular symbols of the holidays, as little as three reindeer and a plastic Santa. Relgious displays are definitely allowed.

--The NEA, and your childs teacher know what they are doing. So does your school. Call them on it.

--Your faith isn't shameful. And you have every right under the First Amendment to express it. Anyone who tells you otherwise risks a lawsuit.

--There are groups out there that will file those lawsuits FOR FREE. As in, no cost to you. You don't have to pay legal fees, lawyer expenses, or even give then a "holiday gift." They just do it. To protect you. FOR FREE.

And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Watch the Reasonable Christmas-haters sputter and mouth-foam as Fools demand their rights be respected. Oh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth as Christians call for Christmas to come out of the closet of "tolerance." Oh, the denial once again of their Absolute Individualist: Oh, the humanity!

Keep laughing, Fools! Keep laughing! Remember the famous words again of Robert Duvall:

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning...it smells like victory!"