CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

Entry 12/26

Blogging Contest Prompt:





"Birdsboro, PA receives one resident's complaint to change the name of their "Christmas in Birdsboro" event, citing "it's an endorsement of Christianity to the exclusion of other religious holidays," according to The Reading Eagle -- Nov 23. 2009





Your take on the "political correctness" of using the term "Christmas."











I've already posted on my reaction to the holiday, which is completely divergent, I must express, from the religious nature of the celebration. What I object to is the gift-giving portion, and that is based on


a) personal history


b) commercialization


c) my dismay that the Joys of the Season never manage to extend beyond Dec. 26, nor to begin before, say Oct. 31 of the following year.





All that stated, my personal take on the above is:





This is so wrong. How is "Christmas in -XYZ" violating the religious and or sociocultural holiday commemmorations of any other ethnicity/nationality/race/species/culture/planet? Well, it's not. My personal ideas on Christmas don't affect others who love gift-giving (except when I holler too loudly, "Bah! HUMBUG!) and anyone who embraces multicultural diversity (as do I) ought to be able to handle "Christmas" as well as any other holiday/commemmoration/celebration.





"Christmas in-XYZ Community" should not violate anyone else's sensibilities or civil rights or sociocultural diversity any more than "Fourth of July Celebrations" ought to violate the personal / nationalistic sensibilities of Canadian or British visitors. Please! There is a continuum of political correctness. Let us-correctly-not violate either extreme. Moderation in all things, indeed.