I agree, Phil.  This year I made a special effort to say Merry Christmas to
everyone, even if they extended no wishes at all.  You'd be surprised how
many people answered, "You too" with this kind of relieved sound in their
voice, like they wanted to say it but didn't know whether or not it would
offend.  Also many businesses forbid their employees from saying Merry
Christmas,.  I think a majority of citizens don't want this politically
correct junk shoved down our throats, but a minority keeps pushing it.  All
the more reason for each of us to take a stand each year for Christmas.

JulieMelton
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www.heart-and-music.com
Keep smiling!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Christmas or Holidays


> A lot of the talk shows in Denver have been debating the Christmas verses
> Holidays terms.  Last Christmas, our new mayor tried removing Merry
> Christmas from the city and county government building.  The citizens
> threw
> a fit and he decided to leave it the way it is, and has been, for decades.
> Our Christmas parade is called the Parade of Lights.  You certainly would
> not want to call a Christmas parade a Christmas parade, especially when it
> was two nights, back to back, during Christmas.  Last year, the Parade of
> Lights board thought they could band a large mega church here in town, the
> church runs over 5,000 just in their main building and many more in the
> satellite churches scattered around town, because they were afraid their
> float in the parade might have a religious theme.  When this hit the news,
> again, voting citizens came out of the woodwork and they allow the church
> to
> enter a float.  This year, they allowed a lot of Christmas Christian
> floats
> and walking choirs singing Christian Christmas songs about who?  Jesus!
> All
> this has reminded me of the first time I got my own vending stand in the
> state services for the blind program.  This public school administration
> building had been bombed by an Latino activist, although in Denver they
> prefer to be called Hispanic instead, years earlier and blown part of one
> floor out into the street.  So building security went to one and one only
> door entrance, you needed identification given to you by the building
> security, and there was a security guard at that door.  One night, when I
> was cleaning up the shop, I found a lady's purse on one of my tables I was
> washing down.  It freaked me out because it had been a lady's purse placed
> in a lady's bathroom, containing the bomb, that blew half of that floor
> out
> into the street from three stories up.  I quickly called security, he came
> running down, and took the purse.  Nothing blew.  So back to my reason for
> this post.  As I stood at the back door by the security on Christmas eve,
> waiting for the lady I car pooled with and whose husband I led to Christ a
> couple of years later, she was a Christian, by the way, I would guess at
> least half of the building came down the stairs and passed by me before my
> ride came.  Everyone of them said Merry Christmas to me and which I, in
> turn, said the same to each and every one.  So, that night, I must have
> said
> Merry Christmas over 100 times before Cindy came down and we walked to her
> car.  I know this seems ridiculous but I enjoyed doing that more than you
> can imagine.  I was young, only about 21 years old, and Sandy and I had
> only
> been married for about two years or less.  There was something special
> about
> saying Merry Christmas that many times, and hearing it from everyone, that
> felt good.  So, I don't plan on changing regardless if the change it to a
> Holiday Tree verses a Christmas Tree.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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