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From: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Christmas Celebration
Keywords: Religious intolerance or significant groups included?
Message-ID: <7715@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Dec 87 13:23:21 GMT
References: <3445@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <7706@eddie.MIT.EDU> <5409@sol.ARPA> <7712@eddie.MIT.EDU> <2288@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <2288@dasys1.UUCP> patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes:
>of course, you only hear what it is you want to hear;  Christmas
>is a "NATIONAL HOLIDAY* here in the USA and probably in Canda and the
>U.K., Sweden, Holland, etc., are you purposefully ignoring what
>we are saying or do you want to crucify one of us to prove your
>point?
>
>If you were working for a Fortune 500 company would you then consider it
>insignificant and silly that they would pay you for holidays?

Um, excuse me.  Please go and reread the 100 or so lines which you so
carefully edited.  Nobody is talking about paying for the holiday.  We are
talking about using company funds/facilities/time for a party which
promotes one religion over others.

Why are people getting so damn bent out of shape at changing the name
of a stinking party?  Is it that somehow the word *christmas* has so
much significance to them that they have to have it said in relation to
workplace parties?  I really don't understand why including onon-christians
in office celebrations (and giving *their* holidays a bit of validity as well)
is such a big deal to you.

Oh, and by the way.  Your daughter is prejudiced.  Everyone raised in
country is.  Anyone who thinks differently should re-examine their
motivation  Frankly, however, I couldn't see the point of the rest of your
article.

Mikki Barry