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12/21/2004 Archived Entry: "Christmas Catfights"

Posted by antle @ 12:07 AM EST [Link]

CHRISTMAS CATFIGHTS: Terry Mattingly, over at GetReligion, has more on the holiday cheer he calls "Christmas culture war skirmishes." He also characterizes the annual creche tug-of-wars as "cat fights between armies of liberal fundamentalists and conservative fundamentalists."

More promisingly, he urges church leaders to bypass some of these controversies by putting "glowing decorations wherever they wished on church properties and private land" and organizing "choirs of carollers to sing on public sidewalks and in other acceptable open-air environments."

It's a constructive suggestion, though there is something about letting the anti-Christmas brigades decide what constitutes an "acceptable open-air environment" that makes me say bah, humbug.

Read on.