1.....Shocking! Presumably, a national “equality chief” would be the high potentate of political correctness, his hearing finely tuned to dissonances of inequality, sounds any sector of the populace might experience as offensive. Presumably also, the powers of such a functionary would include frustrating the will of the majority in the justice-interest of the oppressed (that is, offended) minority—a power which, when so exercised, the majority would experience as the tyranny of a minority (all having equal rights except the majority).

2.....But those wondrously weird Brits have this government “equality” watchdog laughing at sober-sided ideological PCs and even calling them “daft”! “Stop it!” he says (in effect), “Let’s have a national show with Jesus Christ as the star in all public celebrations!” Though he puts it in interrogative-rhetorical form, his assertion is clear: “we” Brits have been “too politically correct about Christmas.”

So what about “we” Americans and Christmas? In our pluralist society, we honor diversity but have only one official calendar-occasion for celebration of our historic national UNITY within Christendom. As conscience permits, let's say a hearty "Merry Christmas!" And please, nonChristian minorities and inclusive-language censors, don’t be anti-"Christmas" party-poopers.

1.....While the First Amendment forbids the establishment of any religious institution (“church”), it does not exclude the favoring of America’s primary religion, Christianity. Christmas Day, celebrating the birth of Christianity’s Founder,is a federal holiday. Just before the signatures, our Constitution refers to Jesus as “our Lord” (“in the year of our Lord” as an English translation of A.D., anno domini, literally “[the] year of [the] Lord”). Even if one reads this date-formula as conventional, the convention was acceptable in that all our founders were Christians in heritage & none had converted to any other religion (though a few had become, philosophically, deist). (“A.D.,” by referencing Jesus' birth, affirms that we are living in history's Christian period; its PC secularistic replacement, namely, “C.E.” [common era] uses the same dating but obscures Jesus.)

2.....While “America” is secular (not secularist) in government and pluralist (not multicultural) in society, it is Christian in cultural foundation and (except for small minorities) in population. Of all large societies, we are the most open to diversity and consequently to loss of unity. Our Anglo ethnic foundation continues in many of our customs and in our language and laws; but our public schools are teaching multiculturalism, that “equality” applies to cultures (not just to persons), no culture to be honored more than any other. This extension of “equality” erodes the particularity of the American culture (and the culture of the West), which is Christian in contrast to other particular cultures, such as Muslim.

3.....Two narratives of America—the originalist and the revisionist--are warring for influence on the future, and Dec.25 is an annual battle in the war. What shall we tell the children? The REVISIONISTS (antisupernaturalists, as in the 1933 Humanist Manifesto and sequels) want the children taught the secularist version, that American founders’ intended that this country be post-religious. We ORIGINALISTS want the children taught that America’s genius was and is the co-equality and freedom of “church” and “state,”
not the withering away of “church” (as in communism and secularism).

Central to the revisionist-secularists is the autonomous INDIVIDUAL in the (God-less) universal community. Central to us originalist-theists is GOD, who through the Bible/Renaissance/Reformation/Enlightenment has been and is our “Author of Liberty.” So, in a poem of Ernest Cadman Colwell, a former University of Chicago President, “Tell all the children / to tell the children’s children / to dream this dream for God.” (Colwell, a teacher of mine, was a specialist in the Gospels and had no problem with “Christmas” and “Jesus is the reason for the season.”)