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December dilemma news (U.S.):

• Evangelicals use courts to fight restrictions on Christmas tidings | After years of legal assaults on municipal displays of Nativity scenes and Christmas observances in public schools, Christian groups are now mounting court challenges in the other direction (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Parade of Lights satisfies pastor | Organizers agree that religious themes will be allowed in the event next year after a church float was excluded this month. Details are expected by March (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Also: Parade okays religious entries | Rules to be changed to allow Christian themes in annual holiday event (The Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Does Christmas need to be saved? | The debate over how to celebrate Christmas without promoting religion centers on whether or not the country has gone too far in its quest to be inclusive of all faiths (The New York Times)
  
  
• Christians fight limits on Christmas tidings | After years of legal assaults on municipal displays of Nativity scenes and Christmas observances in public schools, Christian groups are mounting court challenges in the other direction. (Record Searchlight, Redding, Calif.)
  
  
• Away with the manger | To many, it seems Christ has been removed from Christmas (Lawrence Journal-World, Kan.)
  
  
• Generic greeting doesn't leave Christians feeling merry | Wish Peggie Miller a happy holiday, and she'll gently correct you (Sunday News, Lancaster, Pa.)
  
  
• Christians, atheists face off on town green | Hundreds of counter protesters who say they want to "keep Christ in Christmas," dwarfed a handful of atheists who gathered on the Green Sunday to protest a Nativity display (Middletown Press, Conn.)
  
  
• Taking Christ out of Christmas | The black lettering below the Marconi's Auto Sales sign at First Street and Rood Avenue in Grand Junction sums up what the 35-year-old Grand Junction man wants so much for the world to embrace. (The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Co.)
  
  
• Also: Business wants 'Xmas' out of 'Merry Christmas' | Marcus Marconi feels so strongly about stamping out a popular Christmas abbreviation that he has taken his campaign to the streets with a sign outside his business that reads: "IT'S CHRISTMAS NOT XMAS" (Associated Press)
  
  
• Should Jesus be left out of public holiday celebration? | If you greet a friend or a stranger this time of year - do you say "Merry Christmas," or do you stick with the more generic "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings?" (The Joplin Globe, Mo.)
  
  
• 'Christmas is taboo in America, but now people are fighting back' | If you think celebrations in Britain are becoming too politically correct then don't go to the US (The Telegraph, London)
  
  

December dilemma news (non-U.S.):

• City celebrates with Christian message | Lord Mayor John So has put to rest any fears that the City of Melbourne was averse to the Christian celebration of Christmas (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

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December (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48