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A Blue Christmas for the ACLU

Have you wondered why the American Civil Liberties Union hasn't been carrying out its usual war on Christmas this season? There is a one-word explanation: money.

In a letter to ACLU supporters, its chief writes, "The ACLU was recently notified that our largest individual donor, David Gelbaum, who contributed over $20 million to the organization in 2009, will not be able to continue his support due to a change in his financial circumstances."

Mr. Gelbaum, an investor in "clean" technology, told the New York Times that "my investments in alternative clean energy companies have placed me in a highly illiquid position as a result of the general credit crisis in the American and world financial systems."

Thus, the ACLU is deprived of the money with which to mount its usual spate of threats and lawsuits against towns that have the temerity to have Christmas parades or Nativity scenes. Many of the latter have been accompanied in recent years by symbols of other religions, too, but that makes no difference to the ACLU. It's Christianity they're after.

All this leaves the ACLU with just enough money to continue its campaign for terrorists' rights.

If you thought their glee at Khalid Sheik Mohammed and some of his friends being sent to New York City for trial was over the top, just wait until Obama & Co. send those Guantanamo detainees to the prison in Thompson, Illinois.

Meanwhile, celebrate Christmas as much as you like, if Christmas is your wont. While Christians across the land will celebrate the birth of Christ on December 25, it is likely he was born in mid-summer, not December. The Book of Luke (2.8) states, "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." Shepherds would have been in the fields in summer, but in December, when it is cold in that part of the world, the sheep would have been tucked into their pens the shepherds home by the fire.

The December dating may have been chosen by early church leaders to take advantage of the fact that in many societies the Winter Solstice was a time of celebration. That is when the sun is lowest in the sky, thus reminding and one and all that the days would be getting longer and spring was ahead. With Christianity spreading rapidly, it must have seemed entirely logical and fortuitous to celebrate the birth of Jesus on a day of year already considered to a happy time by many people. Even though Orthodox churchgoers celebrate Christmas on our January 7, that is only because they use a different calendar. 

Santa Claus, in his fur-trimmed red suit, snowy beard and jolly look, didn't always look that way. His ancestor was St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra (now part of Turkey). Nicholas earned a reputation as a generous giver of secret gifts. For example, he put coins in the shoes of those who left them on the front step for him. His most famous gesture involved three daughters of a man who hadn't enough money for marriage dowries for them. He was overwrought that this might mean they would be consigned to a life of prostitution. Hearing of the family's plight, Nicholas, under cover of darkness one night, tossed three bags of gold coins through the family's window so the daughters could be married.

Santa Claus is, of course, a benefactor on a much larger scale, when you consider that he must slide down millions of chimneys and deposit gifts, then clamber up again and ride off through the sky with his reindeer -- all in one night. Santa apparently long ago conquered the speed of light. 

As is well known, Santa keeps a list of who has been naughty and nice during the rear. On good authority we have been told that, despite its current penurious condition, the ACLU is still on the Naughty list and will get a lump of coal again this Christmas. Perhaps they will send carolers out, hats in hands, singing "I'm Dreaming of a Blue Christmas."

(Mr. Hannaford will retire at 9 on Christmas Eve, not staying up for Santa Claus.) 

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Santa Claus, Christmas, ACLU

Peter Hannaford was closely associated with the late President Ronald Reagan for a number of years. After nearly three decades in Washington, D.C., he now writes from California.

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brigid| 12.23.09 @ 6:47AM

As a senior citizen, Imust admit I love the tradition of Santa. When I was growing up we never knew that Santa provided free. We were always told he had to buy food for his family, elves and reindeers and pay for heat and electricity. So we were told that our parents had to pay towards Santa and therefore had to limit what we wanted and also provide substitutes in case Santa ran out.

Unfortunately I only realised when I was older that our parents were teaching us that nothing is free, everyone has to earn a living even Santa.

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Appleby| 12.23.09 @ 7:42AM

Santa at our house brought only two gifts to each girl; there was no explanation of this save that this was his limit. And Santa brought gifts suitable to your age and station; hence my best friend who was the daughter of a doctor got the popular Ginny Doll and her wardrobe, and I did not. (I bought one when I grew up and they came back on the market for such as me.) And the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogues were Wish Books and until we were teenagers we really believed that nobody got the things that were in those catalogues.

In later years we found out that our rich uncle Jules provided $20 to Mama each year which was a fortune in those days (half a weeks wages for most people) with which she and Daddy made Christmas.

As for the ACLU, perhaps they will learn something from this detour of the gravy train. Personally I hope everybody does.

Ret. Marine| 12.23.09 @ 7:46AM

Personally, I'd like to see the members of the ACLU, anti christian league united on the unemployement lines, maybe then they would have a larger appreciation of what is means to be as dis-spirited as they have made many of my fellow Countrymen/ladies in their efforts to undermine our values, moral compass, and heritage.
But, as a Christian man I can only pray they do what is right for theirs and others as I do with little resources. I don't have multi-millionaires who support me nor do I wish for them. I can only guess a little humility is in order for them today as they too slug their way out of their own making.

Henry F. Smith Jr MD| 12.23.09 @ 8:38AM

Luzerne County Pa, is a county beset by financial and particularly, coruption problems. The latter have led to the resignation of three of our Judges; two of whom were involved in the "cash for kids" scandal that made it into the national news outlets.
Christmas has been pretty depressing for our courthouse, which has seen many of managers that have worked there fall to federal indictments on corruption charges. Morale stinks, to say the least.
This year on schedule, a Menorrah and Nativity Scene was erected on the courthouse lawn. Within days came a threat from the ACLU to sue the cash strapped municipality were the religious items not removed. Given circumstances and lacking the will to fight, the county removed the items.
Then something remarkable happened. Local people, not wishing to give up commemeration of the two holidays, set up living memorials (said to be protected as "free speech"). The complaintent was outed as a Kings College student (yes a Catholic College) and quickly became the most despised person in the region (hard to accomplish here). A local law firm offered to defend the county for free. The ACLU backed down (perhaps we now know why).
The Creche, and the Menorrah, along with more decorations, are back in place.
Merry Christmas to all.

Occam's Tool| 12.24.09 @ 6:39PM

It is good to see the loathsome scum of the ACLU starve. I will be happiest when their lawyers are dumpster diving.

wes in mt| 12.23.09 @ 10:02AM

Bravo! That is what it will take to restore the traditions and values of this still great land and people. Standing up to these imbecilic, petty little tyrant wanna'bes has been long overdue. Oh that more americans will get in their face and say "bring it on!" This is our country and we will not be dictated to be a pathetic minority of killjoys.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Sheryl| 12.23.09 @ 10:06AM

This is the best news I've heard in a very long time! May the ACLU continue to run out of money, and may you all have a very Merry Christmas!

Tony in Central PA| 12.23.09 @ 10:17AM

The date for Christmas being chosen to offset ancient Druidic or Celtic solstice festivals is oft repeated, but may not hold up under scrutiny. The ancient Armenian church celebrated Christmas January 6 and I believe has been the historically longest Christmas observation. Presumably, there weren't too many Druids or Celts in this part of the world when people started celebrating Christmas.

I can't comment on whether the midwinter date for celebrating Christmas is accurate, just that the pagan solstice festivals may be somewhat more coincidental than the current popular explanations.

ken (Old Texican)| 12.23.09 @ 6:38PM

DUH...Tony et al:
Decemer 24th is the longest night of the year...northern hemisphere.

Some neat monk decided that it would be cool, symbolicly, (sic) to have the "coming of the light of the world" celebrated on the winter solstice...when the days begin to grow longer.
I'm cool with that.

Occam's Tool| 12.24.09 @ 6:40PM

Have a marvelous Christmas Old Texican, defender of what is right...

Barbarian Heretic| 12.23.09 @ 11:16AM

ahhh... nothing warms the heart like a bit of Christmas Shadenfreude... Merry Christmas, ACLU!

KyMouse| 12.23.09 @ 11:48AM

Whenever Jesus actually was born doesn't matter much to me -- the dark, cold days of winter are transformed by strings of Christmas lights and candles in windows. I get a warm feeling when I see them. It just wouldn't be the same in the spring.

Besides, every believer in Jesus knows that He transforms every aspect of our lives. Turn a pagan solstice celebration into a time to rejoice in His sacrifice for all who trust in Him? Certainly -- why not? Changing whatever (and whoever) is unholy into what is holy is what He loves to do, all year 'round.

brigid| 12.23.09 @ 1:01PM

We all have stories Thanks be to God. But most important is that we have to fight against the most evil of evil. In the meantime let,s praise God that we can still fight. If we do not fight this evil we will have a sorry time explaining to JESUS CHRIST the Lord why not.

May the LORD JESUS CHRIST Bless you all and give you the Grace and Fortitude to keep up the good fight.

Merry CHRISTMAS and a happy and Blessed New Year.

LandmanSA| 12.23.09 @ 1:03PM

The irony is to much. The ACLU's top financier, an investor , in "clean" technology to reduce global warming has become illiquid.

Have a very Merry Christmas!!!

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Akaky| 12.23.09 @ 2:10PM

There are twelve days of Christmas, and I’m sure if you’ve somehow managed to forget that fact over the course of the year retailers from one end of this our Great Republic to the other will forcibly refresh your memory for the next few weeks. Whether you want to or no, you will hear in great detail about lords leaping and laying ladies while pipers pipe and voyeuristic geese pay five gold rings just to watch. I’ve always wondered why just about every picture of Times Square before its current incarnation as Disney World North had a goose or two in the background. There were just too many of them for this to be some sort of odd ornithological coincidence.

But avian porn is not the subject of this screed, so let us move on before the police arrive. The subject of today’s lecture is the twelve days of Christmas and what they mean to me in five easy lessons. For the better part of the late and deeply unlamented twentieth century it was the fashion among a certain set of people to bemoan the commercialization of Christmas, that the demands of Mammon were stifling the essentially religious nature of the holiday, even to the point where that great philosopher and theologian Linus Van Pelt had to explain to Charlie Brown what Christmas was all about by quoting the Gospel according to Luke. Charlie Brown did not seem impressed by this argument, falling, as it did, between commercials for Benson & Hedges cigarettes and the new 1967 Ford Mustangs.

The fact of the matter is that Christmas has always been a commercial bonanza, a state of affairs that began when the Roman Emperor Constantine decided that maybe Christianity wasn’t such a bad idea after all. Constantine came to this conclusion after he’d had a dream the night before the battle of the Milvian Bridge in which he saw a shield emblazoned with a Christian cross bearing the words IN HOC SIGNO VINCES (in this sign you shall conquer). After the alarm slave went off the next morning, clocks being fairly scarce in those days, Constantine put Christian crosses on his soldiers’ shields; as the enemy army outnumbered by about four to one, Constantine figured any edge he could get was a good one; and then proceeded to march out and stomp on the competition big time.

Having won the crown in a pretty convincing fashion—Constantine didn’t have to dangle Chad over a cliff or anything—the new emperor decided to return the favor God did him and make Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. Once a faith exclusively practiced by the most rejected and despised elements of Roman society, the Christian faith became the most inclusive faith in the Mediterranean world since now everyone and their Uncle Bob had to join whether they wanted to or not, everyone, that is, except Constantine himself. Unlike, for example, Marshal Feng, the twentieth century Chinese warlord who converted to Methodism and then decided that his army should come to the Lord as well, and sped up his army’s salvation by having them stand in formation while he baptized them with holy water sprayed from a fire hose, Constantine chose to exempt himself from the revival, correctly figuring that if he stayed a pagan he could go on doing all the fun stuff that pagans got to do like murdering his political opponents, seizing their property, and selling their families into slavery without this sort of thing bothering his conscience all that much. If he was still a pagan, after all, who could blame him for acting like one?

Our current holiday problem started when Constantine decided that a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus would be just the thing to make himself look good on The O’Reilly Factor. There was, however, one small problem: no one knew when Jesus was born. The Gospels simply say that the birth occurred when Quirinius was the governor of Syria. This might have been enough information in the hands of a competent archivist to pinpoint a likely date, but competent archivists were hard to find in ancient Rome due to the Roman mob’s insatiable appetite for watching overweight, middle-aged clerical types with the wife, the 2.7 kids, the dog, and a thirty year mortgage on a house in the suburbs try to stab each other to death with quill pens in the Coliseum.

Constantine, having no solid information to work with, asked the Senate and the people of Rome what they thought of July 15th as the date for Christmas. The Senate and the people of Rome, mindful of the fact that Constantine had the bad habit of feeding people who disagreed with him to lions and tigers and bears, oh my, for the entertainment of the people in the cheap seats, told Constantine that July 15th was a wonderful idea. Roman retailers, on the other hand, mindful of losing the 4th of July and Bastille Day sales, told him that while his idea was wonderful, it would be even more wonderful at some other time of the year. One clever gent who owned a shoe store on the Appian Way suggested, after giving the matter some thought, that the Emperor make December 25th the date for his new holiday.

Now it was Constantine’s turn to object. At a meeting of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, he quite rightly pointed out that December 25th was already a holiday, the feast of Invictus Sol and his brother Herschel, the inventors of the pneumatic Roman army chariot wheel and can opener, a device upon which the good fortune of the Roman Empire did not rely in the slightest. Then Constantine had the Pope read the relevant portions of the Gospel of Luke. The Pope stumbled through the text, His Holiness being unused to reading anything longer than an address; he had come to Rome to get a job in the Post Office in Gaul and wound up as Pope for lack any other available employment; and after he finished reading Constantine asked the retailers how they proposed to get around the Gospel’s clearly pointing to a summer date for Christ’s birth. After all, first century Judean shepherds did not keep flocks of sheep out on barren hillsides by night in the middle of winter just on the off chance that a passing heavenly host with some free time on their hands would wander by belting out their rendition of Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ in digitally remastered stereophonic sound. Clearly, December 25th did not meet the high burden of theological and historical proof required for such an august feast day.

Then someone, possibly the shoemaker who first suggested the idea of the 25th, or maybe his twin brother—no one could really tell them apart—told the Emperor something that emperors, as a class, love to hear: he was emperor, therefore he could put the holiday anywhere he felt like putting it. And so he did, on the 25th day of December, the high burden of historical and theological proof bending slightly in deference to Constantine’s need for campaign contributions; not everyone in the Roman Empire thought that Constantine’s being emperor was such a good idea and he needed money fast; armies, then and now, don’t come cheaply.

Well, over the centuries more and more days got added to Christmas; travel was slow in those days and most people had to use oxcarts that only got twelve miles to the dry gallon of oats, despite the best efforts of the ruminant companies to meet new government mileage standards. The retailers, however, loved the ever-lengthening Christmas season and did their level best to stretch the season out even more. Matters came to a head in 800 A.D., when on the first day of Christmas the Pope crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor and Charlemagne discovered that he and his entourage were stuck in Rome until the end of Christmas, which occurred sometime in the middle of April. This was a major source of annoyance for Charlemagne, who wanted to go home for the holidays, and so in his third official act, the first two being an announcement that alternate side of the street parking rules were in effect and the world’s first pooper scooper law, Charlemagne decreed that Christmas would only last for twelve days.

Retailers throughout Europe objected, which seems to be a theme here, saying that a twelve day Christmas season would drive them out of business; there wasn’t enough time for the scribes to pump out advertising copy in a twelve day season. Charlemagne said, tough luck, pal, in Latin and French, and doesn't almost everything sound better in Latin and French, and then left town with the imperial crown in his luggage, as well as a couple of counterfeit Rolexes he’d bought from a Senegalese immigrant who’d set up his blanket in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The retailers, of course, did not go down without a fight. They’ve been pushing the seasonal envelope ever since Charlemagne rode Out of Town for a second place finish in the fifth race at the Roman Aqueduct. This explains why today, in our modern postindustrial information society, the official Christmas season begins with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and why we still have an annoying carol about the twelve days of Christmas. The unofficial Christmas season, of course, begins near the end of August. This may be why everyone is so happy when Christmas finally arrives—it means that we won’t hear about the damn day again for at least another eight months, something for which we should all shout, Hallelujah and Happy Holidays to all and to all, a good night!

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.23.09 @ 6:44PM

AKAKY,
Did you actually write that stupid post...or paste it from somewhere?

Lord, if he actually wrote that idiocy from scratch, please give him a quiet exit. heh

Akaky| 12.23.09 @ 11:20PM

The good news is I pasted it. The bad news is I wrote it from scratch. Ken, you're not actually taking this seriously, are you? ;-)

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djn| 12.23.09 @ 2:47PM

The commies at the ACLU should be deported. The ACLU is as dangerous to the future of our country as any of our other enemies.

Margie| 12.23.09 @ 3:11PM

Mr. Hannaford,
You mean like this kind of a Blue Christmas? Though I wouldn't wish the ACLU even the pleasure of enjoying it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KK6sMo8NBY

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digitalis| 12.23.09 @ 3:31PM

Ever notice that behind every assault on Christianity there is someone with a Jewish name?? Why?

Margie| 12.23.09 @ 7:36PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

Occam's Tool| 12.24.09 @ 6:45PM

You mean like Osama Bin Laden? Or the House of Saud?

And don't forget all those terrible Christmas songs that are so revolting to the ear like "White Christmas" written by Irving Berlin.

Digitalis, why don't you go to the Pat Buchanan or Joe Sobran website and leave us Conservative Jews alone?

Daisy| 12.26.09 @ 1:34AM

Jesus was a Jew, dope. Nice try, though.

Mike Y| 12.23.09 @ 4:33PM

I wish you a Happy Christmas and a warm celabration of the Feast of Christ (Christ's Mass).

Enjoy your retirement, your writing will be missed.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.23.09 @ 4:56PM

Hey, digitalis...
...because you are sooooo ignorant that you think "Jones" is a Jewish name.

digitalis| 12.23.09 @ 7:02PM

No idiot. Can't read? Poor baby. Try the name David GELBAUM. Now. Does that look like J-o-n-e-s to you? Take your time.

Occam's Tool| 12.24.09 @ 6:49PM

This Jew has gotten into tangles fighting the ACLU. Now, there are a lot of Jews that are Liberals, just like there are a lot of antisemites who support Palestinian terrorists (Rachel Corrie comes to mind). But Digitalis, just because you are a bigoted scumbag doesn't mean that I should suppose that you believe in murdering Jewish babies by blowing them up...

Mitch| 12.23.09 @ 6:11PM

Merry Christmas to the bolsheviki at the aclu. See you folks next year.

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Anastasia Mather | 12.23.09 @ 11:28PM

The news that they're broke is pure joy.

Celebrate Christ's birth in Heavenly Peace, everyone!!

crookedwren| 12.24.09 @ 1:08AM

I sent the ACLU two Christmas cards this year. After trying to put Pace, FL high school administration and coach in JAIL, I figured they could use the boost. Now I find they've lost out on funding.

Perhaps next year, I'll send three Christmas cards. ALL saying Merry Christmas, of course.

About 11 - 12 years ago, I was celebrating Christmas morning with friends at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. We had gone to the Christmas Eve service the night before, and still I wanted to return Christmas morning. The streets in Manhattan -- uptown -- were quiet and cold. Two ladies were out walking their dogs. They may not have been celebrating the holy day, but were cheerful, wishing us a Merry Christmas.

And now, to all of you, although you have probably headed for bed, Merry Christmas. May the Lord Bless and Keep us all.

Joyous Noel!

Earl| 12.24.09 @ 8:02AM

My story is perhaps very different from most of the others, but I'm overjoyed that the aclu got a slap in the teeth.
The first Christmas tree I ever saw was in our living room, when I was a year and a half old. It stood in the corner of our living room, and was covered with not often seen "bubble lights". Every tree I've had since has had those same lights. Christmas is a very special time of year, to me, but not for religious reasons. You see, my family is Jewish, but there is a special place in our hearts, not for ourselves, but for our Christian friends. And that extends to the whole of Christianity. As Jews we're not threatened by the celebrating of Christians, or any other religious holiday.. This year, like last, our tree is one of the nicest in our neighborhood, and our house is lit up "like a Christmas tree". It's my favorite time of year. Perhaps the "anti civil liberty union" should just change their name to Against All Civil Liberties.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Margie| 12.24.09 @ 12:33PM

Earl,
Your story and ~you~ put a smile on my face.
Jesus said~ "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any one whom I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives him who sent Me." Jn. 13:20.
You are more blessed than you know!
God bless you, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

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Barb| 12.24.09 @ 10:36AM

Can it be that the Church chose december because it is the beginning of the liturgical calendar?

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…Main | December 24, 2009 ACLUs War on Christmas on Hold Due to Economy   (Read WP posts from Warner Todd Huston) | (Read MT posts from Warner Todd Huston) Peter Hannaford of the American Spectator reports that the ACLU has suddenly found some tight budgeting times with the announcement that one of its long time patrons said he couldn't donate the tall cash he usually donates because of his own harsh…

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Funding for ACLU on hard times. HOORAH
NGOs across the USA are also suffering. The NE NGOs in particular are finding it difficult to garner thier usual Christmas Or Xmas offerings. HOORAY.
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We have all suffered far too long from the deliberate Anti Christian efforts from the ACLU, seems like the balance is finally taking effect.
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