Michelle Malkin points out that Denver's mayor is missing the point about Christmas and proposes a "Lump of Coal campaign" to try and edimacate him.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase "Merry Christmas" will be removed from the city building and replaced with "Happy Holidays."
And now a church group who wants to march in the Parade of Lights and sing Christmas carols will not be allowed to participate in the parade. Organizers say the parade is about the holidays, not Christmas, but leaders of the Faith Bible Chapel say that's ridiculous.
"We can't pretend that Christ didn't exist and Christmas wasn't about his birthday, so we felt we could sing it and apparently that is not in social vogue anymore," said Pastor Gary Beasley, with the Faith Bible Chapel.
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I am hereby launching the Lump of Coal campaign. Later today, I will box up a lump of charcoal, mark the package "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and send it to the Denver Mayor in protest of his idiotic policy.
Denver's mayor is in great company. The Mayor of Sydney, New South Wales seems to have caught the same affliction:
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sydney Mayor Clover Moore has been cast as the Grinch who stole Christmas after decorating her city's town hall with just one meager Christmas tree out of fear of offending non-Christians.
Moore has been accused of political correctness gone mad after residents in Australia's largest city woke to newspaper headlines demanding "Where's Our Christmas?" and complaints the city had not done enough to celebrate the festive season.
Mayor Clover shows even more s00pidity than Mayor Hickenlooper (boy I bet he got picked on in class with a name like that) because Christmas trees are in fact a pagan custom and therefore really Christians ought to be annoyed at them. However somehow despite them being a modern newfangled thing popularised, like Christmas cards, by Queen Victoria's hubby Christians still seem quite happy with them. Unfortunately the PC morons seem unhappy with the idea.
Finally in old south Wales - the land where Men are Real Men and Sheep are Real Nervous - is this:
A Father Christmas will have a webcam in his grotto to overcome parents' concerns after a number of high-profile pedophile cases in Britain in the past few years.
The St Elli shopping center in Llanelli, south Wales, said children taking part in the traditional Christmas ritual of telling Santa their gift wishes would also sit beside him rather than on his knee.
Excuse me for a second here. How the bleep is a man with a pillow up his shirt and a glued-on cottonwool beard going to cop a feel of a kid in the 20 seconds that said kid is on his lap and the parent is taking a photo of it?