My Christmas List

Dear Mr. President,

Would you like to know what I want for Christmas?

Understanding.

I am afraid that, recently, things have been shifting in a radically uncomfortable way. Atheists everywhere have been putting up billboards attacking the Christmas season, the Smithsonian has put up an offensive art exhibit during the Christmas season specifically about homosexual erotica, Gay and lesbians everywhere have been desecrating things, that to me and most of America, are sacred, and people get angry at others when they wish them a Merry Christmas, even taking it as far as to sue them. And yet, Christians are not allowed to say anything back.

Why?

I’m afraid that I do not understand this double standard that has been put in place. If others can go so far as to put up an ant-covered picture of my Savior and call it art, should I not at least be able to exercise my freedoms and not have my tax dollars spent to fund something that is unfairly biased towards a group of people?

I am not against freedom of religion. I am not against freedom of speech. I am all for people living their lives the way they want. I am not about to take away someone’s free will.
But I want the same for me and my fellow Christians. If everyone else is allowed to live the way they want, then I should be able to as well. I do not like this double standard of them forcing the way they live down my throat while I cannot even wish someone a Merry Christmas.

If they have the freedom to hate, the freedom to lie, the freedom to abhor, then should I not have the freedom to celebrate Christmas without ten thousand Atheists condemning me?

Please help me to understand why this is the way it is.

That is all I ask for Christmas.