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Christmas should be downgraded in favour of festivals from other religions to improve race relations, says an explosive report.
Labour's favourite think-tank says that because it would be hard to 'expunge' Christmas from the national calendar, 'even-handedness' means public organisations must start giving other religions equal footing.
Christmas should be 'downgraded' to help race relations says Labour think tank
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Oh I wish we could, I used to go to Bangkok for xmas, No santa there, Just the Kings birthday and Tet :) But avoiding xmas is harder than you might think these days, everywhere you can buy Coca-Cola you see santa now :(
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#1 - Thu Nov 1, 2007 2:30 AM EDTThere is precedent in the UK for totally stopping the celebration of Christmas. Oliver Cromwell and his government outlawed Christmas in 1645. It was restored when Charles II ascended the throne in 1660.
From 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was actually outlawed in Boston. Oklahoma was the last state to make Christmas a holiday in 1907. Ulysses Grant declared it a national holiday in 1870. Alabama is credited with being the first state to do so in 1836. Tennessee and Kentucky did so about the same time.
The "tradition" of Christmas as holiday in the US is not as long as people would like to believe. Just reaching 100 years in every state and 137 as a federal holiday.
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#2 - Thu Nov 1, 2007 2:38 AM EDTI wonder what poor atheists and agnostics deserve in all this fairy tale of religious multiculturalism? Imagine those holidays becoming pervasive and feeling any gap in country calendar. What then a&a club gets?
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