Irony Becomes the Latest Casualty in the ‘War on Christmas’

Every year, a handful of conservative pundits and Religious Right activists launch a “war on Christmas” to pressure retailers to use the word “Christmas” in their advertising and displays instead of phrases like “happy holidays” on the grounds that not mentioning Christmas is wildly offensive to Christians.

So it is more than a little ironic to see Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel, one of the leaders of this annual “war on Christmas” crusade, complaining about companies and municipalities that bow to the “tyranny of the minority” by changing their holiday displays “in order to not offend a kind of obnoxious few people who are looking around every corner to find some reason to be offended”: