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During each Christmas season, our desks are loaded with stories on Christmas vandalism. This year was no different. Here is a list of incidents that came to our attention: • Vandals burned the City of Birmingham’s Christmas tree in Alabama. • The police chief in Middleboro, Massachusetts said he received more reports of theft and vandalism [...]
The annual "War on Christmas" continued in 2014 with both sides having achieved roughly the same number of wins and losses. This is certainly an improvement over the days when the anti-Christmas side appeared to be winning this battle in the culture war. The good news is that the pro-Christmas side has been pushing back, even [...]
Every year, the Catholic League comes across stories of atheist groups and their attempts to neuter or eliminate Christmas. The following is a partial list of campaigns orchestrated by such organizations during Christmas 2012. In Niles, Illinois, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) placed a Winter Solstice sign in the Village of Niles Plaza to protest [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on the censoring of Christmas parties this year at the University of Colorado: “According to a recent news story in the Rocky Mountain News, a state audit released last year barred the University of Colorado from holding Christmas parties; the university has now notified all employees that a ‘holiday party [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the displacement of Christmas trees: “The following venues have replaced Christmas trees with ‘Holiday Trees’: Hagerstown, Maryland; Duffy Square in Times Square, New York; Overland Park, Kansas; Roanoke, Virginia; Bangor, Maine; Westminster, Maryland; and Auburn University (a vote by the Student Senate to change the name to ‘Christmas [...]
Had it not been for Pope John Paul II, the Cuban people would still be barred from publicly celebrating Christmas. Now he needs to bring his message of tolerance to Israel as well. This past Christmas all crucifixes and Christmas trees were banned from Israeli hotel lobbies because they were deemed offensive to Jews. It wasn’t [...]
The following examples show how Christians are defending Christmas: Last year, a Glenview, Illinois firehouse was told it could not display Christmas decorations. This year they won approval. Last year, an 8-year-old boy from Plano, Texas was forbidden from giving his friends candy canes in school. This year he could. Last year, a crèche in Cranston, [...]
Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on some disturbing responses to Christmas: “In San Francisco, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a band of characters the Los Angeles Times affectionately calls a group of ‘queer nuns,’ has been bashing Christmas all month. In Minneapolis, gay-themed Christmas bashing has been happening at the Hennepin Center for the Arts and [...]
