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A new article by Austin Cline, a regional director for the Council for Secular Humanism, attempts to dismiss the idea that Christmas is being stripped of its religious meaning in modern times by proving that such secularization began ages ago. Cline, who published “Secularizing Christmas Holidays” on About.com, argues that a number of holidays, from…

The Catholic League, a group that is famously active in the annual holiday culture wars, has released a list of early offenders in what League president Bill Donohue calls efforts “to censor Christmas.” Among those he lists are: — The Los Angeles City Council, which renamed the annual “Hollywood Christmas Parade” the “Hollywood Santa Parade”…

The conservative group American Family Association also is continuing to call out companies that it believes are undermining the public celebration of Christmas. A recent action alert has urged members to write to the department store chain Kohl’s for “taking a misleading, in-your-face attitude when it comes to Christmas.” Specifically, the group alleges that Kohl’s…

Santas across Australia have thrown their jolliness by the wayside in protest of a new instruction that they say “ha, ha, ha” instead of the traditional “ho, ho, ho.” According to The Daily Telegraph, Santa is “a rebel with a ‘claus.'” Westaff, a Santa training agency that supplies Santas to hundreds of stores across Australia,…
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