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As I bring this year’s December Dilemma Watch to a close, I have to say that 2007 will not go down as a banner year in the history of the Christmas wars. There were no freedom-of-religion (or freedom-from-religion) lawsuits that grabbed national headlines, no flood of boycotts of major retailers because those stores wished people…

Yesterday, CNN.com published this column by commentator Roland Wilson, in which he makes the argument that Americans should “return to traditional values, and end this ridiculous charade” of stripping Christmas of its religious meaning. To longtime observers of the December Dilemma, Wilson’s essay appears to conflate two classic problems that many conservative Christians assert. One…

This week, at least 12 residents of Santa Clarita, California discovered something missing from the nativity scenes they had put up in their front yards–the baby Jesus. In place of the baby, according to Los Angeles’ KNBC News, the thieves left a note that read, “Do not worry for baby Jesus is not gone, yet…

According to Catholic World News, the Vatican has changed its tradition of erecting a Nativity scene of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in a manger in Bethlehem, instead putting up a scene of the holy family in their home in Nazareth. The Vatican has put up a creche since Pope John Paul II instituted the tradition…
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