Leave Christmas Alone

As I sit here on this Christmas Eve, I am becoming increasingly more frustrated with all of the efforts by the far left to remove Christ from Christmas, and to remove God from public life all together. They explain the motives for their actions as trying to promote an environment where people of other faiths don't become offended by all the references to Christ and God, they say acknowledging a certain religion violates the 1st Amendment. Bull.

The overwhelming majority of Jews don't feel offended when they hear someone say "Merry Christmas", just as I as a Christian do not feel offended when someone says "Happy Hanukkah". But this goes beyond the efforts to remove Christmas from schools and such, there is a much larger effort out there to remove God from public life altogether. The claim that somehow saying "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance or having "In God We Trust" on our money violates the 1st Amendment is completely off base. The 1st Amendment prevents the government from coercing a certain religion upon the country, it doesn't prohibit the expression of a religious faith. In addition, "under God" or "In God We Trust" does not endorse a certain religion, simply the existence of a higher being. This is a principle that the overwhelming majority of Americans, of all faiths endorse, and it is a key principle upon which our country is built.

This is not an issue over protecting the rights of minorities as those on the far left would have us believe, but rather an attempt by a few to force their anti-religion views upon the rest of the country. As is usually the case, those who claim to be of tolerance and diversity are really the most intolerant of us all.