December 23, 2006
FROM THE ARCHIVES: YET THEY PAID FOR THE BILLBOARD:
'Santa is consumption' say Island couple (Sylvia Yu, December 11, 2002, Canadian Press)An anti-Christmas billboard sign is slowing traffic on the Pat Bay Highway. The bright red sign says: "Gluttony. Envy. Insincerity. Greed. Enjoy your Christmas!" A Victoria couple paid for the $1,200 sign with the money they would have spent on Christmas gifts. Valerie Williams and her husband Trevor say they came up with the idea to attack Christmas on a billboard because the onslaught of consumerism "horrified and disgusted" them. She says she doesn't want to participate in a "white, middle-class, heterosexual, patriarchial, Christian Christmas."Maybe they could celebrate the Nativity of Alice Walker? [originally posted: 2002-12-13] Posted by Orrin Judd at December 23, 2006 11:59 PM
I'm guessing they have a wonderful home life.
Not.
I wonder if they have kids? Imagine what it must be like to grow up in such a household.
Posted by: JasonU at December 13, 2002 4:54 PMIF they have two kids, one will probably kill himself, and the other will wind up taking over Pat Robertson's ministry when Robertson retires.
Posted by: Andrew X at December 13, 2002 5:59 PMI think it's more realistic to think the other kid will become a devoted Satanist.
Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at December 13, 2002 8:11 PMWhat would they think of a white, middle-class, heterosexual, patriarchial, non-Christian Christmas?
Posted by: Henry at December 13, 2002 8:16 PM$1200 could have bought a lot of shoes and coats for poor children.
Or a hundred other helpful things you can think of.
No, it's more important to basically shout "neener-neener nyah-nyah!"
This type of moral superiority borders on the pathological.
What I like about the left is that they are most tolerant of their own intolerance. They demand acceptance for their approved pet causes, while refusing to ever consider accepting anything else.
Leftists have become what they claim to despise most.