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Anyone who truly thinks that the recognition of Christmas by the government is the same thing as the government establishing a state religion should have a look at the circumstances that caused us to leave England in the first place.
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The first thing that comes to mind, reading that, is the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony and all that.
They didn't celebrate Christmas. As a matter of fact, when they were in charge, they outlawed Christmas.....they actually enforced it, too. They came here to do their own thing....and make sure everyone else would not deviate. That's why Boston became the destination of choice rather than Plymouth. Half the towns in New England were established by people wanting to move away from the oppression they lived under, not in Europe, but maybe 30 or 40 miles away, in Country.
The founding fathers saw this first hand and wrote the constitution to stop that kind of thing. The Feds jumped in when they made Christmas a federal holiday.
12-21-2005, 11:55 PM
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