[Porsche-O-Phile]

If I moved to, say, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or Dubai, d'ya think I'd have a problem with people celebrating Ramadan? No. Because its part of the culture of those who settled that area and live there now. So it is with celebrating Christian-influenced holidays in this country. It isn't a government sanction of Christianity to acknowledge celebration of Christmas, (Saint) Valentine's Day or Saint Patrick's Day. It's a simple acknowledgement that those holidays played a role in shaping our culture into what it is today because they were important to some groups,still are to some - religious influence DID play a pivotal role in shaping our nation and culture, much as the P.C. liberal wack-job types (many of whom are in academia/education) want to write that out of history. It must really piss them off to have to acknowledge that religion and the right to celebrate it freely was the very reason the Pilgrims came here almost 400 years ago.

Lordy why can't these perpetually-offended, P.C. hand-wringing ninnies not understand this very basic distinction. CA (extremely P.C.) has many cities and towns named "San" this or "Santa" that. Offensive? Religious? Hardly. Merely an acknowledgement that the Spanish missions that settled those areas originally were often named after religious figures, that (Christian) religious beliefs meant a lot to those people and but for those beliefs, they might not have ever been settled at all.

Some people just need to lighten up. A lot.