Mollie Hemingway has a report from the Christian holiday war front .
Ours is a strange culture. Wasn’t it five minutes ago that Wal-Mart and Best Buy were banning “Merry Christmas” for fear of the pitter-patter of little ACLU jack-booties? But give a Christian holiday an ethnic twist, and all is calm, all is bright.
How long before other religions want expanded shopping acknowledgement of their calendars?
I eagerly await the day when K-mart has special sales events in commemoration of Incident II .
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