What’s so funny is that, even with all the alleged “slights” against Christians during this time, people say Merry Christmas all the time!

Liberals, conservatives…everybody.

The lady on the phone at GEICO said “Merry Christmas” to me a little while ago. The lady who checked me out at the grocery store in my little liberal oasis in the middle of the South said “Merry Christmas.”

The only ones that are fun to screw with are the ones that play victim. There’s this western-wear store out in the suburbs that runs a ridiculous commercial every year where a clown bitches and moans about how “people aren’t allowed to say Merry Christmas anymore” and then offers a discount to anyone who says it before the transaction is rung up.

Western store? Asking for it. Hopefully my best friend and I will have time to do a little last minute Christmas shopping there later today, wherein we accumulate a gigantic purchase of cowboy boots and other hootenanny gear, then suddenly realize once at the check-out that this is “that store that does those ads.” When they say “yip yip that’s us all raht!”, we plan to simply get a disappointed look on our faces and explain that “we don’t have any problem with Christmas, but my boyfriend here and I are Jewish [we are both gay dudes, though not boyfriends] and we celebrate Christmas, but found that really offensive so I’m sorry, we can’t make this $5,000 purchase, anyway bye.”

If we have time, I think it’s worth the hilarity.

If there is a casualty in the “War on Christmas,” it is neither peace on earth, nor goodwill to men, but only Christianity’s perceived right to be the exclusive bringer of these emotions. The “War on Christmas” isn’t about values, Christian or otherwise: it’s just a new way to couch simpering whines about the loss of Christian hegemony in the rhetoric of discrimination.

moving and fun to read!