Anger over parade dropping "Christmas"

Nation: Yeah baby! War on Christmas is starting earlier and earlier.

A famed fireworks company is pulling out of a holiday boat parade because "Christmas" was dropped from the event's name. Fireworks by Grucci won't lend its sparkle to Patchogue's Nov. 23 parade — decorated yachts on the Patchogue River — because the organizers have renamed it the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade. It was the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade last year, when the Grucci company donated $5,000 worth of fireworks. The company's vice president, Philip Butler, who has criticized the secularization of Christmas in the past, said parade organizers were "using all the themes of Christmas and plagiarizing all those themes." Organizers in the Long Island town said the parade has had several names over its roughly 15-year existence. The name was changed again this year after complaints that the use of "Christmas" seemed to make the parade less inclusive. "When I think about fireworks, I don't think about Christmas anyway," Mayor Paul Pontieri said. "I think about the Fourth of July."

Is Christmas the only holiday in the world where its not inclusive? It is made to be inclusive without damaging anyone's fragile ego. The whiners and complainers wouldn't think of bitching like this for any other holiday because then it would be discrimination and/or religious bashing. Just another set of multicults pushing their weight around with a weak willed Mayor along to enable them.