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So Many Slights, So Little Time
10 December 2004'Tis the season for hysterical op-eds, like Deborah Simmons' Christ-our-of-Christmas lament in The Washington Times. It's a popular opinion-page topic this holiday season, but one almost uniformly argued by hacks like Simmons, who blends misinformation (Christmas carols were not banned in the Chicago public school she mentions) with fear-mongering (the word "holiday" may soon be banned too), and fashions a list of hot-button conservative issues into a cause-and-effect history lesson (removing school prayer leads to Roe v. Wade leads to Target barring the Salvation Army). Meanwhile, in "So We're Oppressed?," Linda Campbell, of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, is puzzled that her fellow Christians are so easily offended. Beyond offense though, Campbell wonders at the sense of persecution that led the Catholic League to call for "religion-friendly" business decals, indentifying stores where Christians are welcome. Mentioning a handful of the countries where Christians are routinely harassed, detained or worse by their governments, Campbell suggests, "'Perhaps instead of imagining oppression, we should envision solutions.'"
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