Friday, December 19, 2008

Thank You Jean Charest!

We are not hiding......I still wish people a Merry Christmas and will be attending a Hannukah dinner on Christmas Day.

Theo Caldwell: Christians don't need to hide in the festive bushes
Posted: December 19, 2008, 8:15 AM by Kelly McParland

One recent December, a tour guide on Canada’s Parliament Hill was overheard referring to the “Christmas Trees” in the main hall. When the guide’s heresy was reported to her superiors, she was firmly told that the decorated greenery were most certainly not “Christmas trees,” and a heated debate ensued as to just what to call the arboreal splendour. It was decided that guides would refer only to “Festive Bushes” for the remainder of the holiday season.

But this year, Quebec Premier Jean Charest quickly corrected an overeager staffer who declared that a “Holiday Tree” would be lighted in the provincial capital. Charest’s commonsensical statement that it was, in fact, a “Christmas Tree” was a welcome rebuke to the seasonal game of sensitivity and silly bears that goes on every year.

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