I like Michelle Malkin's Christmas crusade idea:
I am hereby launching the Lump of Coal campaign. Later today, I will box up a lump of charcoal, mark the package "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and send it to the Denver Mayor in protest of his idiotic policy. Please join me in doing the same (and if you take a photo of your creatively designed package, I will link/post).
You know, that ought to be an initiative from either one of those groups already in place to work to preserve our Christian heritage or a new group. (I notice that lumpofcoal.com is still available.) As Michelle's follow up reveals, the nascent movement has already met with success.
The only thing I'd worry about is that the organization would come under investigation for terrorism. After all, the Post Office asks, with every package, "Anything breakable, flammable...?"
Posted by Justin Katz at December 6, 2004 7:13 PMDo unto others as you would have them do unto you, not as they have done to you. Sending a lump of coal with the marking "Merry Christmas" isn't within the Christmas spirit no matter how justified a protest it might otherwise be.
Posted by: Joel Thomas at December 7, 2004 2:24 AMSomeone needs to write a parody in which the ACLU discovers to its shock and horror that the word 'holiday' is a contraction for 'holy day'.
It's hard to know how far the militant secularists will go. Should governments stop shutting down on days designated as special only by a religious calendar? Should government employees be dicouraged from saying 'goodbye' because it's a contraction of 'God be with ye'?
Posted by: Ben Bateman at December 7, 2004 1:48 PMI received a lump of coal in my stocking one Christmas. I thought it was hilarious! I think I still have it.
Posted by: smmtheory at December 9, 2004 8:10 PM
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