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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristmas = illegal???
I did a search and found this from 2005, so thought in honor of our "friends" at Faux News I would post again. Could that be the sound of heads popping???!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5555469
From 1659 to 1681, showcasing one's holiday spirit in Boston could cost you a fine of as much as five shillings. Yes that's right Christmas used to be illegal.
Christmas was so inconsequential in early America that after the Revolutionary War, Congress didn't even bother taking the day off to celebrate the holiday, deciding instead to hold its first session on Christmas Day, 1789. It took almost a century for Congress to proclaim it a federal holiday.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)CFLDem
(2,083 posts)Conservative heads = exploded
TexasTowelie
(116,257 posts)The War on Christmas by Christians: Luckily Christmas is Winning
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101681034
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)That is great info.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)It's not like they could pull him over back then. They'd have to get him on the ground. That's probably why he's so elusive.
msongs
(69,912 posts)you die unless you are a believer