'Christmas break' may return | Falcon School District 49 board member Anna Bartha, who took office a few weeks ago, is asking the board to consider changing the name of the time off at the end of the year from winter break to its traditional name, Christmas vacation (The Gazette, Colorado Springs)
School holiday shows in state bring threat of suit | Not Christian enough, Florida group warns (Associated Press)
A very wary Christmas | Retailers and governments heed the wrath of Christians who seek recognition of the sanctity of the occasion. Attorneys are standing by (Los Angeles Times)
'Christmas' missing from Bushes' card | Conservatives are rankled that the word "Christmas" doesn't appear anywhere on the official White House card—1.4 million copies of which were mailed to presidential friends and supporters (The Washington Times)
Capitol tree gets Christmas moniker back | Lighting up the chilly night with a resolute flick of a switch, House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Thursday night illuminated this year's Capitol Christmas — not "holiday" — Tree, reinstating its religious title for the first time in years (Associated Press)
Christmas debate at Manhasset tree lighting | When the Rev. Nick Zientarski invoked the name of Jesus Christ during his traditional blessing of the official Christmas tree lighting in Manhasset last week, he had no idea he had signed on as a soldier in the culture wars over Christmas (Newsday)
Christmas wars: Left's fault:
The war on Christmas | Theocracy? Do you really believe that? (Jay Ambrose, Scripps Howard News Service)
Vision America joins war of words in Christmas fray | Rick Scarborough's Vision America, based in East Texas, is launching a bumper sticker (The Lufkin Daily News, Tex.)
Christmas wars: Right's fault:
A threat to Christmas? | Worriers about government and commerce miss the point (Editorial, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
Face it, it's not a 'Merry Christmas' for every American | Personally, I don't want to see figures of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in the midst of a display for KitchenAid mixers (Julie Muhlstein, The Daily Herald, Everett, Wa.)
Unhappy holidays | Christian conservatives have absurdly convinced themselves that they are the leading victims of discrimination and abuse (Tom Teepen)
Can't we all get along?
More cheer, please | The Christmas controversies do raise the possibility that, in the rush to be aggrieved, we'll forget the age-old message of the season: Peace on earth, good will toward men (Editorial, The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
Seasonal replay | We've gotten so picky and prissy about religion in the public square that no one really knows what to say and do at times like Christmas (William Murchison, The Washington Times)
Can we return to Christmas past? | It's supposed to be a time of peace, after all (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
Christmas:
Take it from a college prof: 'I believe in Santa' | The reformed naysayer says the tradition represents love (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Rivalry rings the bell for kettle drive | Wal-Mart touts charity on TV, while Target solicits online (Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
What would the Druids do? | I thought religion was supposed to remind us that there's a separation between pew and marketplace (Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe)
Carols still defy secularism | Jesus may be absent from commercial television and movies today, but you can hear of him through the holiday songs played on the radio this month (Paul Davis, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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