My Gawd! Its not even Halloween yet and the war against Christmas has started. Christmas is 2 months away. What ever happened to the 40 days of Christmas? Even 40 days is way too much in my opinion. Christmas Eve and Christmas day should be the only two days anyone should have to hear the words "Merry Christmas"
I will stay out of the stores and buy xmas/soltice gifts online to avoid being constantly reminded I am NOT a Christian.
Fireworks company is pulling out of event word was dropped from event (GOOD)
updated 7:28 p.m. MT, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - 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."
The venerable Grucci company is famous for providing spectacular fireworks displays at major national celebrations. It is based in Brookhaven, not far from Patchogue
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