PrintJanuary 16, 2006
Happy Equality Day!
It is tempting to compare the zealots of political correctness to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm who proclaimed that 'all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.' There seems to be a certain selectivity in their concern for inclusiveness.
A few weeks ago, in their eagerness to avoid offending non—Christians, they campaigned to keep Christ out of Christmas by stratagems such as replacing 'Merry Christmas' with 'Happy Holidays' — a practice that contradicted the preference of almost 70 percent of the American public and angered religious groups who threatened to boycott Sears and Wal—Mart for this secularization.
In vain, we Christians protested (paraphrasing Scrooge), 'keep Christmas in you way and let us keep it in ours.' But the PC police wouldn't let us keep it our way; they persisted in trying to hijack our religious holiday by perverting it into something else. (Selwin Duke recently detailed some of these tricks,...(Read Full Article)
