On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:19:21 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Dec 12, 3:34?pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:49 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:
That's easy, just have Congress change the Christmas holiday date.

And make another 3 day weekend.

Excellent.

Not a bad idea at all, really.

We move Washington's birthday all around the calendar to create a 3-
day weekend in February- and we have a pretty darn good idea exactly
when George Washington was born (don't ask me whether the Georgian or
Gregorian calendar happened to be in use when he was born in the early
1700's.....but there was a switch made probably within 50 or 75 years
of his birthdate).

I think you'd need to look pretty far to find any Christian authority
willing to swear (literally) on a stack of Bibles that Jesus was born
on December 25, so why not move the birthday celebration to make a
three day weekend? There's nothing holy about December 25, it was an
arbitrarily selected day.

In fact, speaking of holidays, Christmas Day was not a holiday in the
United States until 1870 and the same group of people we point to with
pride at Thanksgiving, (The Puritans), would put people in jail for
celebrating Christmas.

It's truly a complicated holiday.

Do you reckon something like the Folsom Street Fair would be more
appropriate than these religious events? Seems like the SP's would love
more of this:

http://tinyurl.com/3djdyg
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John H