Doubly Stupid Christmas

A city in Washington displays a Christmas tree in front of its city hall. The tree is decorated with, among other things, requests for gifts from needy families. Passersby can donate to this surely worthy cause. The tree typically generates about $25,000. So far so good.

Here's where the wierd stuff starts. The town, in amazing PC fashion, does not refer to the tree as a "Christmas Tree" but as a "Giving Tree." This is statement I suppose about the universal nature of Christmas.

Now a story like this might get you to shake your head, but it gets better. Apparently the "Giving Tree" isn't enough. Two athiests in the community have complained that the tree offends them. The city so far is sticking by its guns. Think the ACLU will sue?

The thing that makes this doubly funny though is that the above events take place in the town of Bellevue.

Read the whole story.

Via Drudge.
- posted by Base10 @ 3:36 PM