It must be the wrong kind of Merry Christmas
In Oklahoma, it's apparently some sort of tradition for the governor to ask schoolchildren to trim a tree which is then plunked down in the state capitol for a certain holiday that the fundies are getting their undergarments all twisted about. This year, a lot of the students decided to make the ornaments from lottery tickets, which had the undesired effect of driving the fundies loopy, which, after what must have been a few screaming sessions, resulted in the tree being pulled from the capitol building.
If you want a good reason to enforce separation of church and state, this is it; christmas trees are a pretty inoffensive violation of church and state, but if you put them there the people who get worked up about them are almost universally not going to be the atheists, but the crazy fundamentalists who want to implement a religious state and who get really worked up when the wrong religious influences creep into the government sphere. If the state of Oklahoma said "no christmas trees in the capitol, sorry" they wouldn't be put into the situation of stomping on the christmas decorations that were made by people the American Taliban considers insufficiently worthy of contaminating the government sphere with.
One of the fundies who complained about this is threatening to go to a school and lecture them about the "true" meaning of christmas. I wonder how many of the students will take the day off for those root canal surgeries they've been putting off?
(via No Capital)
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The irony of the fundie's efforts to preserve the "sanctity" of Christmas is that Christmas is a pagan holiday that was co-opted by the Catholic Church. Many of the traditions of Christmas are rooted in pagan beliefs. And there is no mention in the Bible of celebrating the birth of Jesus.