Inclusion- Tis the Season

photo from bbs website


Ya gotta love it.

We in the early 21st century US really do try to get it right. Aside from bashing Muslims' heads in as opportunities arise, we really do make an official effort not to hurt people's religious feelings. Inclusion is the buzz word.

I promise I won't go into the jihad that the US has against those of the Islamic persuasion- carried out by media hacks and pols alike. I promise that. (Even though Mitt Romney did put himself on the turkey stump when he said he wouldn't appoint a Muslim to a major cabinet post because there just weren't enough Muslims in the voting population to justify it- like there is a huge enough Mormon population to justify a president...) But I digress....

(What the hell- it's my blog...)

Breathe.

OK. So here we are trying to be all sensitive and inclusive in public life on public property. Only somehow the electorate doesn't always get the full impact of the theory behind this.

Let's talk about Green Bay, WI, for example. Now there's a town that theoretically had it all packed in like peanut butter. Their town hall had an uber-inclusive winter holiday display. Creche on the roof of the town hall, Wiccan wreath (surrounding a pentangle) on the peak of the overhang, and, like the three magi, representatives from the Unitarian, Hindu and Buddhist communities came bearing symbols to be hung by the manger with care.

But vandals transhed the wreath and the town council chose to drop the whole thing, except, of course, for the creche. The whole town's in a soup of name-calling and jousting believers now because of it. And the councilman who started the fray made a statement- “I’m trying to take this fight to the people who need to be fought. I’ll keep going on this until this group imposing Madison (liberal town in WI) values crawls back into its hole and never crawls out.”

Merry Christmas