Comments on Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: Christmas and the Constitution

Thank you for your comments John. I responded to s...

2010-12-22T11:00:27.872-05:00

Thank you for your comments John. I responded to some of your points in a new post: http://www.lawfficespace.com/2010/12/is-christmas-federal-holiday.html

Part 2 So, before you all jump on me, unders...

2010-12-19T14:26:08.278-05:00

Part 2

So, before you all jump on me, understand I'm not trying to take away christmas from anybody, just pointing out it shouldn't be rammed down our collective throats by federal mandate, it's bad enough with the commercial advertising onslaught we get year round. Come on, people, with all the advancement in knowledge and technology we have today, with all the really serious issues we face, esp. global degradation of of earth's life sustaining ecology, isn't it time we, as a species, grew up and moved away from basing our lives on our respective collections of fairy tales and superstitions that have proved to be spurious in nature so many times over and, instead, use reason, logic, and compassion to shape our collective future? We could at least start by eliminating the hypocracy of telling our kids not to lie, punishing them when they do, then tell them something that they will eventually be so disappointed to discover is a whopper of one! No wonder so many pre teens and teens think their parents are so full of crap and tune out to anything actually usefull their parents could tell them. And, after that, we could, maybe, start telling them the actual truth about the history of this country instead of the white-wash myths we get in our federal mandated public 'school' (indoctrination) system's American History and Government classes- we could start by making _Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong_ by James Loewen, Ph.D. (a former colloge history professor and currently Visiting Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC) a required textbook in all American schools. Hopefully, if we do this, we will, except fot the facsist and or theocratic control freaks, possibly start to... have a nice life!

Part 1 Yet the fed govt named it 'christ'm...

2010-12-19T14:24:31.959-05:00

Part 1
Yet the fed govt named it 'christ'mas day. So, maybe the problem is not with the fed gov declaring a day off for it's employees at a time when many cultures celebrate their respective mid-winter* holy days, but the fact that they used one particular culture's cult** figurehead to name it after! Doing so implies the christian cult is paramaount and thus smacks of indoctrination: they did in fact pass a law respecting an establishment of religion, to wit, the christian one. That a court undoubtedly primarily composed of christians, who had been indoctrinated all their lives by this religion, ruled in favor of christmas does not neccessarily mean it is a just and constitutional law as they obviously were unable to rise above their lifelong prejudice in the case. Maybe, it should be re-tried before a more ecelectic judge and jury comprised of a single representative from all major cult groups. By this I mean 1 christian (not 1 from each sect of the cult), jew, muslim, buddist, hindu, pagan, atheist, agnostic, etc.. I suspect that the outcome may be a bit different if this were to happen.. If this makes me come accross to the close minded and ignorant of the christian cult as the grinch who stole christmas, then so be it (btw, I'm not namecalling, these are just factual descriptions of the mentality of the people who would do so). I think that the court acted in extremly bad taste by using a silly poem referencing said grinch considering that Theodor Seuss Geisel was a lifelong lutheran christian and he was writing about the christian holyday (is wasn't the grinch who stole hannauka or solstice etc.!). That kind of behavior is the same as the school bullies, backed by their sychophants, calling their outnumbered victem(s) of the momment derogatory names and making other disparaging remarks that have no substantial relevance whatsoever to the matter of disagreement between bully and victem. Isn't one of our most cherished principes of government that, although the majority rules in any vote, the minority should be protected from abuse by said majority, ie. when the facsist minded and acting (look up the deffinition of facsist in a dictionary from 20 years ago, before the corporate mind induced it's subtle change you see in today's dictionaries, and you will see that, again, this is not baseless namecalling but, rather, factual description) republicans controlled all three branches of our government they couldn't then pass legislation outlawing their opposing democratic party?

*a time of extreme significance that goes back through the millions of years of our evolution, long before there were any governments or organised religious groups
**by deffinition ALL religions are cults