Putting the [Blank] Back In [Blank]mas 5

All is not lost in Massachusetts. There's some real sense in this editorial from the Lowell Sun, which starts by reciting some of the bizarre PC anti-Christmas efforts around the country:

• Macy's and Bloomingdale's, caving in to protests from secular fanatics, pulled the words "Christmas sale" from all advertising catalogs, substituting "holiday sale" instead.
• The mayor of Somerville [MA], responding to a single secular critic, apologized for using the word "Christmas party" in a letter sent to citizens.
• A Pennsylvania public-school teacher, reacting to ACLU warnings, confiscated a student's holiday cards, to be given to classmates, because the salutation "Merry Christmas" was written on them.

The editorial concludes:

This anti-Christmas sentiment has gone too far. Sensible people are acting hysterically to the ACLU's disinformation campaign about the "separation of church and state." The ACLU uses it like a hammer to scare public officials into submission. The words, however, don't appear in the U.S. Constitution. Instead, they form a constitutional principle, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, that government won't promote or establish a national religion.

Americans should realize that no court has ever ruled that public schools must ban the singing of religious Christmas carols. Also, no court has ever held that celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday requires recognition of all other religious holidays.

That's all ACLU and secularist poppycock. So the next time a school administrator acts like an ACLU censor, or a store removes a "Christmas" display to be politically correct, Christians must fight back. Challenge the school with a good ol' traditional lawsuit. Organize a boycott of stores that diminish the Christmas spirit.

Christmas isn't a threat to anyone, and it's high time Christians defend it with the same fervor as those working to take it away.

Amen.