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In recent years the Christmas wars have subsided, though each year there are some ugly incidents. This year we got involved in what could have been a legal showdown, but ended mostly on our terms. On December 12, we were contacted by a Catholic League member who sought to have a nativity scene displayed in the [...]
In December, the Catholic League was inundated with complaints across the country that public school teachers have been diluting the meaning of Christmas while simultaneously trumpeting the meaning of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. It has become commonplace for public schools to teach about Hanukkah but not about Christmas, to display menorahs but not nativity scenes, and to [...]
A few weeks before Christmas, residents at a Newhall, California senior citizens’ apartment complex were told to remove their Christmas tree. The company in charge of the complex, JB Partners Group Inc., told staff at The Willows residence that the Christmas tree was a religious symbol and must be taken down. Because this is a private [...]
Catholic League president William Donohue spoke today on the way diversity specialists in the corporate world are responding to Christmas: “The Diversity Despots are once again seeking to gut Christmas from the workplace. Fraser Nelson, executive director of the Disability Law Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, is against any religious holiday in the workplace. Nelson, [...]
In Wisconsin, for the first time in years, they reverted back to calling the Capitol Rotunda Christmas tree a Christmas tree: it was called a Christmas tree for 70 years until it was renamed a Holiday tree in the mid-1980s. In Rhode Island, Governor Lincoln Chafee decided to continue the politics of intolerance by calling the [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explained why the Catholic League’s dispute with Lands’ End has been resolved: “On December 1, we issued a news release expressing our displeasure with Lands’ End for contributing to the dumbing-down of Christmas. We did not so much object to the company’s preference for using the term ‘holiday’ over ‘Christmas’ (and [...]
In yesterday’s New York Times, there was an article about White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. In it, reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote: “When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers earlier this year, one participant said, she surprised them by suggesting the Obamas were planning a ‘non-religious Christmas….’” This same participant said [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue talks about the way Christmas foes navigate the holiday: This is a tricky season for those who delight in warring on Christmas. Consider what is happening in Waterbury, Connecticut. Erik Brown is the principal of Walsh Elementary in the Waterbury School District. His staff is under strict orders not to employ [...]
