War On Christmas
Customers booed when a post office manager in Silver Spring, MD threw out a group of carolers. A spokesperson for the postal service explained, "Public assembly and public address, except when conducted or sponsored by the Postal Service, are prohibited in lobbies and other interior areas open to the public.“ But one customer, J.P. Duffy of the conservative advocacy group Family Research Council, says this is the first year the carolers have ever been ejected, arguing that the incident is part of a growing backlash against Christian traditions in public: "Over the last several years, we have watched militant secularists team up with federal bureaucrats in the effort to sterilize the public square of anything remotely connected to anything religious… This postal manager has clearly received the memo which has led him to stamp out Christmas caroling. But I have my own memo to all the Christmas carolers out there. Let’s not surrender to the secularist version of Christmas future.” What do you think? Were the carolers violating the separation of church and state? Or is this another example of the Secular War on Christmas?
Customers booed when a post office manager in Silver Spring, MD threw out a group of carolers. A spokesperson for the postal service explained, "Public assembly and public address, except when conducted or sponsored by the Postal Service, are prohibited in lobbies and other interior areas open to the public.“ But one customer, J.P. Duffy of the conservative advocacy group Family Research Council, says this is the first year the carolers have ever been ejected, arguing that the incident is part of a growing backlash against Christian traditions in public: "Over the last several years, we have watched militant secularists team up with federal bureaucrats in the effort to sterilize the public square of anything remotely connected to anything religious… This postal manager has clearly received the memo which has led him to stamp out Christmas caroling. But I have my own memo to all the Christmas carolers out there. Let’s not surrender to the secularist version of Christmas future.” What do you think? Were the carolers violating the separation of church and state? Or is this another example of the Secular War on Christmas?
