Same story here :
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/12/memo_your_chris.php
Your Christmas Tree May Be Offending Someone Right Now
By Jen Doll
EXCERPT:
Today in over-the-top political correctness seemingly supported by science: Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada have undertaken a study to see how Christmas trees hurt the feelings of impact people who aren’t Christian. They asked 77 Christians and 57 non-Christians to fill out a survey both when a 12-inch Christmas tree was in the room and when it was not. The people who didn’t celebrate Christmas “reported fewer positive feelings and less self-assurance in the Christmas room. Christians were mostly cheered by the tree.”
Of course, all of this assumes an actual connection between Christmas trees and Christianity, which a sampling of our immediate group of diversely religious peers would indicate is tenuous at best. Some even argue that the origin of the decorated evergreen is actually pagan! (Personally, we’re more offended by the hiring of Christmas tree stylists and the outright obesity of Santa these days.)
Michael Schmitt, the psychologist behind the research, said:
“We’re not suggesting ‘no Christmas’ or ‘no Christmas displays at all,’ but in contexts where we really do value respecting and including diversity in terms of religion, the safest option is not to have these kinds of displays.”
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Also here :
TITLE : Christmas trees ‘make non-Christians feel excluded’
Christmas trees should be removed from public places to avoid making non-Christians feel “excluded”, scientists have suggested.
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Oh wahhhhhhh. People can chose to be offended or not. We’re not some bag of helpless brain chemicals with no control over our emotions. We’ve got to stop ordering our society to please people who CHOSE to be offended at things where no offense was intended.
The solution is obvious. They should learn about Christmas and start celebrating it so they won't feel excluded.
And more particularly...How many were foreigners who brought their old pagan religion with them? IT doesn't mean anything. If the foreigners feel out of place in North America...it is because THEY ARE and should leave if they don't assimilate.
F’em!
How’s that for being ‘offended’?
I.
Don’t.
Care.