Who started the “War on Christmas”?

Christmas is cancelled.

Via dailypress:

In researching his book, “Christmas: A Candid History,” Forbes discovered that major American denominations–Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Methodists and Congregationalists–either ignored the holiday or actively discouraged it until the late 19th century.

That rejection was rooted in the lack of biblical sanction for Dec. 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth, as well as suspicion toward traditions that developed after the earliest days of Christianity. In colonial New England, this disapproval extended to actually making the holiday illegal, with celebration punishable by a fine.

“Some somehow observe the day,” wrote Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall on Christmas Day 1685, “but are vexed, I believe, that the body of people profane it, and blessed be God no authority yet compels them to keep it.”

Some 322 years later, Sewall might be surprised to see his congregation — today known as Old South Church — proudly displaying a decorated Christmas tree outside the church.

In your face, Holmes.

Braaaaaaaains

Via The Independent:

“A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who provoked a public outcry by claiming black Africans were less intelligent than whites has a DNA profile with up to 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European.

“An analysis of the genome of James Watson showed that 16 per cent of his genes were likely to have come from a black ancestor of African descent. By contrast, most people of European descent would have no more than 1 per cent.”

 

Hahahahaha, in yo’ face.

SCHADENFREUDE

I can’t even make stuff like this up:

You might recall the story about the Berkeley Sea Scouts, a Berkeley, California-based Boy Scouts sailing group that was denied the use of a public boat slip by the city because of the nonprofit organization’s policy of rejecting atheist and gay members in its ranks. They sued and argued that Berkeley was punishing the organization for exercising its constitutional freedom of association — the right that the U.S. Supreme Court cited in a 2000 ruling upholding the Boy Scouts’ exclusion of gays.
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After all, the Boy Scouts have defended its policies by citing the phrase “morally straight” to excuse its discrimination.

Now the lead plaintiff in that case is currently “being held in lieu of $1 million on six felony counts of sexual assault, including allegations of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, oral copulation with a minor, penetration with a foreign object of a minor and showing harmful material to minors.”

So this is the guy who’s going to accuse law-abiding people like me of having inferior morals? Wow.