Immigrants want to ban Christmas tree

I put my Christmas tree up November 18. (Early? Fuck you - I work in retail)

But. I get where these guys are coming from. I had to go to Youth Court downtown with my son last year and as we waited in the lobby I couldn't help but notice the 'artwork'. A family; heads bowed, hands clasped in prayer. I tried to look away, but it bugged the shit out of me.
As if my day wasn't bad enough, I have to look at this?

So much for separation of Church and State.

Well I believe for the most part in seperation between church and state. I wish people a merry christmas, and I tend not to do business with the happy holidays people, where posible.
As long as other religions are allowed access to streets and parks etc, for celebrations, I see nothing wrong with Christmas symbols. I have a number of friends who are Indo Canadians, and other faiths and they themselves put up Christmas trees, so who has a problem with the this tradition.
Most people don't know either that Christ is the second most important person of faith.
The people who want to ruin celebrations of all kinds are the so called do gooders and they should stay to being cndo nazis. They are the same people who want to ban smoking in bars, and cars, and make all kinds of laws to regulate our lives. If we are going to deport someone deport people who want to regulate society in their own image and likeness.

We used to have jam that had"Golliwogs"on the jar, which was a old fashioned representation of a Black Person. Strangely it was not the Black people that wanted them banned but the White PC crowd.

The thing overlooked about "political correctness" is that it IS political.

It is not a wish to prevent anyone being offended but a means to impose THEIR narrow concept of civilization.....which all to often is merely a concerted attack on western, democratic, christian principles.

How about this: we all show some respect for each other and celebrate our own religion in our own privacy, and if we want to invite others to celebrate with us, then we can do that too.

Then we don't have to have big stupid paranoid fights about who is ruining Christmas or whatever the "you're not celebrating my culture so I'm going to bitch about it till everyone wants to shoot themself in the face" complaint of the week is. Because, frankly, capitalism and Christmas don't actually have anything in common, and not one single person whose family arrived on this continent after 1492 really has any right to be saying whose culture this continent belongs to.

If you want to celebrate whatever you think Christmas is, go ahead and buy a tree and put it in your house and decorate it. If you want to celebrate Hannakuh, buy a minora and light your eight candles. If you want to fast for Eid el Fitr, then do so. If you celebrate Kwanza, do whatever it is you do to celebrate Kwanza.

Just stop bitching that other people are ruining your holiday because some store wouldn't recognise it, because that's not their job. Their job is to sell you stuff while giving you the impression that they care about your dumb customs, but they really don't. They just see an opportunity to make you empty your wallet, and you probably willingly do so.

If you want to celebrate your culture, YOU celebrate YOUR culture. It's pretty fucking simple. "To each his own" is not a phrase I find all that confusing, and I don't see why anyone else should be confused by it either.

i think the fact that they said that they support the celbration of religous holidays but want to ban christmas trees says it all. not to mention that these people do not speak for the vast majority of the sikh faith.

now if we could just get the press too ignore these yahoos instead of furthering their messed up ideas through publicity we could all go on celebrating christmas with trees and all and let them hop on the first plane boat or walk for all care, all the way back to india