Tuesday, December 11, 2007

City changes 'Christmas' festival to 'holiday' festival

The Alliance Defense Fund suggests that a Michigan city has taken political correctness -- not to mention ignorance of the Constitution -- to new heights by renaming a popular festival based on a classic Christmas book.

In Mount Pleasant, Michigan, "Christmas" is evidently a bad word. City officials, influenced by a school district policy that bans the word, have changed the name of the local "Dickens Christmas Festival" to "Dickens Holiday Festival." The festival is based on the popular Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol.

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1 comment:

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