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Fed up of all the political pap spewing out of the tabs on a daily basis? Fear not: the Daily Star comes to our rescue.
For roughly the 137th day in a row, the esteemed publication delivers the oh-so-original news that Christmas has been labelled...too Christian.
We’ve had the ban on Xmas lights, and now comes the ban on Christmas carol services.
But not just any old Away In The Manger festive singalongs. For added pull-on-the-heartstrings effect, the paper reports that a service "for families of murder victims has been branded 'too Christian' by the politically correct brigade".
Hindus are demanding that Royal Mail withdraws one of this year's Christmas stamps, claiming the mother and child image it represents is insulting to their religion.
The 68p Christmas stamp, which would be used to send mail to India, features a man and woman with Hindu markings worshipping the infant Christ.
The image is one of a series of six mother and child stamps that go on sale today.
Ramesh Kallidai, secretary general of the Hindu Forum of Britain, said the image was insensitive, because it showed people who were clearly Hindu worshipping Christ.
were wrote:my god..i can see it..
that 68 on that stamp..it offends there pet cow..
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i dont know man..getting a bit ridicious at this point..
Zep wrote:yes, i am drunk, but did I loot? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
According to a report of Waveney District Council in Suffolk, it is felt that the Christmas illuminations are not politically correct. The report says that Christmas lighting "does not fit well with the council's core values of equality and diversity."
Now, the council is proposing to slash its £10,000 donation by to fund lights in 13 towns and villages by half next year and stop it completely in 2007. A final decision will be taken on Thursday.
However, the language used came in for a lot of flak. Even the Waveney District Council leader Mark Bee admitted that the language used in the report was "unfortunate" and apologised. He added that the proposal was being made purely for "economic reasons." "I am concerned about the wording in the report and I have taken it up with the chief executive this morning and we will be withdrawing that part from the report," he said.
The report, per se, did not please all of the town folk that led to remarks that the council had gone "PC crazy".
"Our whole culture is being affected by the vague possibility that the things we do might be upsetting people from another religion," said Frank Jones, an independent councillor on the authority.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the decision by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) to ban Christmas music from this year’s Christmas concert:
“Four years after it was founded in 1997, FGCU made big news when its head librarian banned stickers saying, ‘Proud to be an American’; this occurred in the wake of 9-11. Now it will be known as the school that banned Christmas songs from its Christmas concert.
“Naturally, they call the Christmas concert the ‘winter concert.’ But it is pure fiction. Christmas decorations are all over the campus, and the student union is adorned with bows, garland and lights. Nevertheless, there will be no Christmas carols sung this year: the choir director pulled a song from the concert because it mentioned the word Christmas.
“The decision to treat the word Christmas as an obscenity is defended by the administration. Susan Evans is Special Assistant to the President and the University Spokeswoman, and it is her belief that Christmas should be banned from the campus. ‘We just think people can celebrate in their homes with their families in ways that they may not celebrate on campus,’ she said. This is rather bizarre given that FGCU lists diversity in its Mission statement. Moreover, one of its ‘Guiding Principles’ commits the university to ‘individual, social, cultural, and intellectual diversity.’ But this is obviously a lie: it is precisely because it abhors diversity that it seeks to censor Christmas.
“On December 3, FGCU will have a ‘Coca-Cola Holiday Party’; on December 12, there will be a ‘Holiday Party’ for the College of Health Professions; the Library Staff will hold its ‘Holiday Party’ on December 14; and the Administrative Services ‘Holiday Party’ will be held the next day. What holiday they are celebrating is never acknowledged, though we suspect that even the dumbest diversity despot on campus has a hunch.â€
A WELSH Labour Eid party, three weeks after the Muslim festival was celebrated, has sparked a row.
Muslims across the city were divided yesterday as to whether the event was too late and whether it was insulting to other minority faiths to use the term Eid at all.
AIMING to put Christ back into Christmas is Worcester Park vicar Robin Harvey who fears the season is turning into "a self-indulgent winter celebration".
With the backing of his parochial church council and the deanery synod, the Rev Robin Harvey and his church are moving to oppose those bent on the downgrading of one of the most important days on the Christian calendar.
PASTA POWER wrote:You want to know the true meaning of Christmas? It is not that important of a holiday. It wasn't till a 19th century American Christmas carol iirc before it was on the road to where it is now. The reverence shown for Christmas should be reserved for Easter which is the single most important Christian holiday but since Easter is no more than a candy holiday for retailers and people like Class continue to fight their culture war the significance of Christmas has been blown way out of proportion. Though without the holiday season and people stupid enough to risk financial ruin to celebrate Christmas retail as we know it wouldn't exist.
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