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Dec 15, 2002, 9:02pm

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender
neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable
traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your
choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others,
or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all and a fiscally
successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset
of the generally accepted calendar year 2003, but not without due respect for the
calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make
America great (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country
or is the only "AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the
race, creed, color, age, physical disability, religious faith, choice of computer platform,
or sexual preference of the wishee.

Legal Disclaimer: By accepting this agreement, you are accepting these terms.

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no
alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually
implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by
law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.

This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting,
whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance
of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Sincerely,

(Name withheld for legal, social and cultural considerations.)

Dec 16, 2002, 2:05pm

Its sad that this is true (well most of it). In AWTeen we have to be
careful what to say when we put up a "holiday greetings" IO message. We
can't mention Christmas even though the majority of the people who come to
AWTeen celebrate it, because some don't!

All this politically correctness has been blown way out of proportion in the
last couple of years. We are all individuals and some of us share common
beliefs, however, just because we mention them doesent mean the others don't
matter. The whole world is insane.


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Dec 16, 2002, 4:00pm

Ste... Christmas is an official US Government holiday, and therefore under
the laws of church and state, isn't religious in nature. Otherwise the ACLU
would have had it thrown out years ago! Put it in the IO message. If they
complain, you tell them to take it to the Government.

Chris

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Dec 16, 2002, 5:10pm

Heh the IO message was just an example - it probably will get put up there,
my point is that people will always complain - someone may point out its
anti-jewish or it conflicts with someones belief.

I was just enforcing shred's point - some people take political correctness
too far.


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Dec 16, 2002, 8:19pm

*cough* absolute bull *cough*


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Dec 17, 2002, 6:25am

Then why do you oblige them?

Chris

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Dec 17, 2002, 4:46pm

As I said in an earlier post it was an example to support his view.

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