So many busybodies "offended" by Christmas, with nothing better to do than run to the Courthouse shrieking "separation of chuch and state". Here's Mark Steyn:
The seasonally litigious rest their fanatical devotion to the de-Christification of Christmas on the separation of church and state. America's founders were certainly opposed to the "establishment" of religion, whose meaning is clear enough to any Englishman: The new republic did not want President George Washington serving simultaneously as supreme governor of the Church of America, as the queen today is simultaneously head of the Church of England, or the bishop of Virginia sitting in the U.S. Senate, as today the archbishop of York sits in the House of Lords. Two centuries on, these possibilities are so remote to Americans that the "separation" of church and state has dwindled down to threats of legal action over red and green party napkins.Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the Federal Review regulars (even the atheists), and to anyone else who happens by this page.. . . .
In Britain and Europe, by contrast, the formal and informal symbols of religious faith remained in place in national life and there were no local equivalent to America's militant litigants, and the result is the total collapse of Christianity: Across the continent, the churches are empty. In attempting to sue God out of public life, American liberals demonstrate yet again that they're great on tactics, lousy on long-term strategy.
