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The Telegraph ^ | December 21, 2004 | Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/20/2004 2:43:56 PM PST by quidnunc
One December a few years back, I was in Santa Claus, Indiana, and went to the Post Office — a popular destination thanks to its seasonal postmark.
'Merry Christmas!' I said provocatively.
But Postmistress Sandy Colyon was ready for me. 'A week ago,' she said, 'I'd have had to say 'Happy Holidays', but we've been given a special dispensation from the Postmaster-General allowing us to say 'Merry Christmas'. So Merry Christmas!' That's 'Christmas' at the dawn of the third millennium — a word you have to get a special memo from head office authorising the use thereof. In America, most executive honchos would rather not take the risk, instructing the staff to eschew any mention of the C-word in favour of 'Happy Holidays!' — the all-purpose inoffensive greeting that covers Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Eid, the Third Wednesday after Ramadan, hippy-dippy solstice worship, West Bank Suicide Bomber Appreciation Day and any other festive occasion you've lined up for the general vicinity of late 2004/early 2005.
For US columnists, the end-of-year column bemoaning the fanatical efforts to expunge all Christmas traditions from public life has become an annual Christmas tradition in itself. This year, there's no shortage of contenders for silliest Santa suit. In one New Jersey school district, the annual trip to see Dickens's A Christmas Carol has been cancelled after threats of legal action. At another New Jersey school, the policy on not singing any songs mentioning God, Christ, angels, etc, has been expanded to prohibit instrumental performances of music that would mention God if any singers were around to sing the words. So you can't do Silent Night as a piano solo or Handel's Messiah even if you junk the hallelujahs.
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I just got home from shopping at WalMart, a local grocery chain, and the library. We're in the heart of a blue state, and this is what happened when I wished people 'Merry Christmas': Every single person reacted with a big smile, I mean a really big smile.
So, my unscientific poll says that columnists hate CHRISTmas, but the people love it.
I have a special dispensation
for the Postmaster-General.
Merry Christmas All!
Even our friendly Chinese waitress and resturant manager said Merry Christmas to me and my wife saturday. They seem to think it is still acceptable and proper. The anti-Christ-ian left-wing liberal nut cases are the ones trying to take Christ out of Christmas. It all started with the stupid practice of using 'x-mas' instead of Christmas.
One December a few years back, I was in Santa Claus, Indiana, and went to the Post Office - a popular destination thanks to its seasonal postmark.
'Merry Christmas!' I said provocatively.
But Postmistress Sandy Colyon was ready for me. 'A week ago,' she said, 'I'd have had to say 'Happy Holidays', but we've been given a special dispensation from the Postmaster-General allowing us to say 'Merry Christmas'. So Merry Christmas!' That's 'Christmas' at the dawn of the third millennium - a word you have to get a special memo from head office authorising the use thereof. In America, most executive honchos would rather not take the risk, instructing the staff to eschew any mention of the C-word in favour of 'Happy Holidays!' - the all-purpose inoffensive greeting that covers Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Eid, the Third Wednesday after Ramadan, hippy-dippy solstice worship, West Bank Suicide Bomber Appreciation Day and any other festive occasion you've lined up for the general vicinity of late 2004/early 2005.
For US columnists, the end-of-year column bemoaning the fanatical efforts to expunge all Christmas traditions from public life has become an annual Christmas tradition in itself. This year, there's no shortage of contenders for silliest Santa suit. In one New Jersey school district, the annual trip to see Dickens's A Christmas Carol has been cancelled after threats of legal action. At another New Jersey school, the policy on not singing any songs mentioning God, Christ, angels, etc, has been expanded to prohibit instrumental performances of music that would mention God if any singers were around to sing the words. So you can't do Silent Night as a piano solo or Handel's Messiah even if you junk the hallelujahs.
But let's not obsess on New Jersey's litigious secularists. In Plano, Texas, in the heart of God-fearin' Bush country, parents were instructed not to bring red and green plates and napkins for the school's 'winter' parties, as red and green are colours with strong Christmas connotations and thus culturally oppressive. In Massachusetts, in the heart of Bush-fearin' country, the mayor of Somerville issued an apology for accidentally referring to the town 'holiday party' as a C
Jesus, Mary and Joseph long ago got the heave-ho from the schoolhouse, but the great secular trinity of Santa, Rudolph and Frosty aren't faring much better. Frosty The Snowman and Jingle Bells are offensive to those of a non-Frosty or non-jingly persuasion: they're code for traditional notions of Christmas. The basic rule of thumb is: anything you enjoy singing will probably get you sued. At my little girl's school, the holiday concert is a mélange of multicultural dirges that are parcelled out entirely randomly: she seems to have got stuck with the H's - last year she wound up with a Hannukah song, this year she's landed some Hispanic thing; next year, no doubt, a traditional Hutu disembowelling chant. It would be offensive to inflict Deck the Halls or God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen on any hypothetical Hutu in attendance, but it's not offensive to inflict hot Hutu hits on bewildered moppets.
Philip Roth famously observed that, with Easter Parade and White Christmas, Irving Berlin had taken the two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ and 'de-Christed' them both, turning Easter 'into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow'. But Berlin found an angle on Christmas that anyone can get into. The new school of 'de-Christers' seems to deny the possibility of any common culture, so that the holiday concert winds up a celebration of hermetically sealed cultural ghettos.
And yet this year I'm disinclined to join in the general bemoaning. Flipping the dial on my car radio, I notice more stations than ever have been playing non-stop 24-hour 'holiday music' for the month before C-day - not just Winter Wonderland and Jingle Bell Rock but Bing and Frank doing Go Tell it on the Mountain and Andy Williams singing O Holy Night. And not just the old guys, but all the current fellows, especially the country singers: Garth Brooks's new album - The Magic of Christmas - includes Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! but also Baby Jesus is Born and O Little Town of Bethlehem.
The seasonally litigious rest their fanatical devotion to the deChristification of Christmas on the separation of church and state. America's founders were opposed to the 'establishment' of religion, whose meaning is clear enough to any Englishman: the new republic did not want President Washington serving simultaneously as Supreme Governor of the Church of America, or the Bishop of Virginia sitting in the US Senate. Two centuries on, these possibilities are so remote that the 'separation' of church and state has dwindled down to threats of legal action over red-and-green party napkins.
But every time some sensitive flower pulls off a legal victory over the school board, who really wins? For the answer to that, look no further than last month's election results. Forty years of effort by the American Civil Liberties Union to eliminate God from the public square have led to a resurgent, evangelical and politicised Christianity in America. By 'politicised', I don't mean that anyone who feels his kid should be allowed to sing Silent Night if he wants to is perforce a Republican, but only that year in, year out it becomes harder for such folks to support a secular Democratic Party closely allied with the anti-Christmas militants. American liberals need to rethink their priorities: what's more important? Winning a victory over the kindergarten teacher's holiday concert, or winning back Congress and the White House?
In Britain, by contrast, the formal symbols remain in place: the Queen is still Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and the Archbishop of York still sits in the House of Lords. But, underneath all that, Christianity has collapsed, the churches are empty and the new Europe is as officious about public expressions of faith but without the countervailing balance of America's First Amendment protections. In Italy this Christmas, towns and schools have banned public displays of the Nativity on the grounds that they 'may' offend Muslims.
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But who cares? The elevation of the right not to be offended into the bedrock principle of democratic society will, in the end, tear it apart. That goes for atheists threatening suits against New Jersey schools and for Muslim lobby groups threatening fatwas against The Telegraph. On which cheery note, Merry Christmas to all.I think there's a lot of truth to this column. Maybe in the schools and other institutions people are panicky about openly acknowledging that we celebrate the birth of our savior at Christmas (while at the same time accepting that Jews celebrate lamp oil and Muslims celebrate ... what? killing people?), but in our hearts and homes we are reaffirming what we believe and if the ACLU keeps it up we'll eventually win back America from the secularists.
Besides, the schools are complicit not because they fear a lawsuit but because they've been overrun by communist plants left over from the Soviet Union.
Mark Steyn rules.
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Wow. That's probably the dumbest (and possibly the funniest) thing I've read all day. I'm Jewish, and I find a ban on Christmas songs (or possibly Christmas-related tunes) offensive. I thought we had that 'free exercise' thingy here in the US of A?
I never heard about this case. What makes this so bizarre is that despite its long-standing appeal during this season, Dickens' work is distinctly secular in its outlook and contains nary a mention of the true meaning of Christmas. In fact, I've seen it described as one of the defining 'manifestos' of secular humanism in western literature.
Steyn raises an excellent point here. I noticed the same thing myself . . . and even get occasionally annoyed when I hear the same tunes repeatedly over the course of the month.
That town should have known how idiotic they looked when radical Marxist/atheist lawyer Ron Kuby (of all people) harshly criticized them for their stand on instrumental holiday tunes.
I've been reporting on our public school 5th and 6th grade (I know from experience the younger grades do the same) also play Christmas music and plenty of it.
In addition, the 1st graders get letters from Santa straight from the North Pole.
Were I one of the politicians in that town, I would still be laughing. In fact, I'm still laughing anyway. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Pretty soon Bach and Beethoven will be banned, and all that will be left is for the school choral to sing those favorite Ozzy Osbourne songs.
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'What kind of country do we live in,' one of them said, 'when you have to meet with the school district's lawyers to determine which songs you can play?'
Tiny Tim mentions being glad to be seen in church so that those in attendance could look upon him and recall 'Who it was that made lame beggars walk and blind men see'.
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