Christmas
Diversity isn't aided by calling the state spruce a 'holiday tree.'
William McGurn
– Wall Street Journal
I continue to be amazed by the inability of so
many government and media elites to distinguish between upholding religious
pluralism and enforcing anti-religion.
The tolerant and diverse society that liberals
claim to champion is ill-served by a government that reads "no
establishment of religion" as mandating official hostility toward even
innocuous religious expressions of its citizenry.
In an age when the White House quite rightly
holds Diwali and Iftar celebrations, how are tolerance and diversity served by
a governor who forbids acknowledging that a lighted evergreen in his state
capitol is a Christmas tree?
The efforts by atheists to ban religious displays
on city property was not the opportunity to express their own views but to ban
those they disagreed with from expressing theirs. And they succeeded thanks to
foolish government functionaries.
Atheists and secular progressives fail to
remember the famous aphorism attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what
you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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