And now comes another aggrieved soul on the righteous side of the War on ChristmasTM, this one dubbed "Wiggins" and posting on behalf of that bastion of purposeless protestations, StopTheACLU.com. Wiggins is upset that a youth choir group was not permitted to sing its carols at the Corringham Winter Festival in England (where the American Civil Liberties Union is notoriously influential) because organizers judged the selections to be overly religious.
This is indeed stupid. These kids practiced for six weeks to sing Christmas Carols at a "winter festival." Whether or not the festival was intended to be Christmas-themed or not shouldn't matter; there was music and dancing aplenty, and no right-thinking person, no matter how little use he might have for the LORD, would be offended by listening to these children strut their stuff. Unless they really sucked.
Yet one wonders why people go looking for trouble when they could safely ignore such isolated events. With all of their supposed love of the Christmas season, you would think that people like Wiggins would be focused on making the most out of their own Christmas experience--church services, family gatherings, egg nog, presents under a spectacularly decorated tree, theme music; it's available to all--rather than look all the way across the Atlantic Ocean for evidence of anti-Christian malfeasance. But this is a war, after all, and Wiggins knows just how it's going to play out:
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