Originally Posted by mikepwagner

I would like you to name one serious lawsuit where to "stop the celebration of Christmas" - except where the celebration of Christmas did not involve the expenditure of public money or the use of a facilities constructed with those funds.

Since those public monies are collected from Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Wiccans and atheists (among others), it seems incorrect to require non-Christians to subsidize Christian celebrations.

Just to be clear, I am also opposed to using public funds and/or facilities built with public funds to celebrate Eid Al Milad, or Yom Kippur, or Vesak, or a myriad of other religious holidays.

I am quite happy to see these celebrated on private property at private expense (churches, malls, etc).

This is one that the Constitution got absolutely correct - that a religion is dominant in the United States does not imply that the state endorses or supports that religion above others (or no religion at all).

Having lived in two Moslem coutries (North Yemen and Somalia), I am very grateful for those provisions of the United States Constitution. I regard the subsidization of state organized religion in both of those countries (and in Israel, and Great Britain, etc) as a weakness.

Mike