More on the Phony “War on Christmas” 2
Ruth Marcus nails it in today’s Washington Post:
The latest alleged perfidy is the failure of the White House Christmas card to mention Christmas, instead expressing “best wishes for a holiday season of hope and happiness” and featuring a verse from Psalms. William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, calls this evidence that the administration has “capitulated to the worst elements in our culture.” I call it a recognition, especially welcome at a time of sectarian violence, that not all the 1.4 million folks on the Christmas list are Christian.
December 10, 2005 at 12:49 pm
Far from hitting any head other than perhaps her own, Marcus has clearly done nothing more than to read my comment on your December 2nd post in which I said:
“The more self-censorship they bully people into, the closer they’ll be to the society they want. And they’ll think they’ve made their point!”
She’s done nothing more than to co-opt my rhetoric and use it for her side, which I find both immature and unhelpful to the furtherance of the discourse. But at least she knows what blogs to read.
December 10, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Gosh, I’d be flattered if a nationally read columnist of any persuasion stole my stuff!