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“Yes, Virginia, there is a war on Christmas. It’s the secularization of America’s favorite holiday and the ever-stronger push toward a neutered ‘holiday’ season so that non-Christians won’t be even the slightest bit offended.

“That is certainly not what the founders intended when they wrote, ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’

“John Gibson, a popular anchor for the Fox News Channel, … reveals that the situation is worse than you can imagine. For instance:

“• In Illinois, state government workers were forbidden from saying the words “Merry Christmas” while at work
• In Rhode Island, local officials banned Christians from participating in a public project to decorate the lawn of City Hall
• A New Jersey school banned even instrumental versions of traditional Christmas carols
• Arizona school officials ruled it unconstitutional for a student to make any reference to the religious history of Christmas in a class project

“John Gibson is the host of The Big Story on Fox News Channel, which airs daily at 5:00 p.m. and is currently the sixth highest rated show in all of cable news. Before joining Fox News Channel, he was an anchor and reporter for MSNBC, CNBC, and NBC News.”

John Gibson has been unable to get television shows to interview him about his new book. These are the reviews that Amazon has chosen for “Spotlight Reviews”:

Offensive and Unreadable I sat down with this book and was unable to finish it. The notion that anyone interested in enforcing the idea of the separation of church and state is therefore “anti-Christmas” is ludicrous and patently offensive. Gibson is tacitly approving cultural McCarthyism in this book. If you are liberal and hate America so much that you see the wisdom behind not forcing non-Christian children to participate in the Passion Play, then according to this book you are anti-Christmas and therefore part of the problem.