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# "Happy Holidays" is a Smear?
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3268/
- Published: 2005-12-07T11:50:22.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-07T11:50:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Holidays, #wpChunk

I side with the anti-ACLUites in the Christmas Wars, I really do, but they're going to lose if they insist on seeing every generic holiday greeting as a sign of secularism. The phrase "Happy Holidays" isn't always a capituation. In fact, I always thought it referred to the triumverate celebration of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, not the triumverate multi-culturalism of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwaanza.

> This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season."

> Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting inside. But some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings.

> "This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

[*WaPo* Link](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601900.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

I don't always agree with Bush, but he's no secularist and efforts to paint him as one will be mocked.