A place under the tree after all
This just in: Toys for Tots, the annual charitable program run by the Marine Corps Reserve, has reversed its decision not to accept 4,000 talking plastic Jesus action figures from One2Believe, an evangelical Christian group in Los Angeles. The religious right has triumphed. Sure makes up for the Republicans losing the Congress.
I would have loved to have been secretly listening to the arguments that must have gone on yesterday at Toys for Tots headquarters. The initial decision by the group not to accept the Jesus figures for fear of offending non-Christian parents whose kids got the talking Jesuses was the correct one, but obviously there were greater issues at stake here. Just goes to show that these skirmishes in the liberal War on Christmas can turn in a heartbeat.
Now imagine you're the kid who gets the talking Jesus, and your brother gets the soccer ball.