In 2005 there was a great deal of controversy over the use of “Happy Holidays.” As if not saying “Merry Christmas” was somehow anti-Christian. It’s interesting that “Christmas” was once considered as a secular, if not pagan, celebration by some of the same churches raising a fuss today.
Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanza, Hanuka, or just a day off, I said “Happy Holidays” and I mean it.
Christmas was outlawed in the USA for a couple hundred years, IIRC. You could actually be fined for celebrating. American Christians (specifically the Puritans whose ideals still run through US culture today) strongly disapproved of the holiday.
Um… The USA is only a little over 200 years old, the bi-centennial was in 1976. I think you mean that in SOME of the American colonies (specifically the puritanical ones you mentioned) it was illegal.
Once USA formed it was unconstitutional to have laws like that.
You’ve confused America, the location, with the USA, a country (government) AT that location.
I’m not confused, but I am willing to use the name of a country as it currently exists to describe the place, even if we’re discussing something that happened a little before and a little after a particular piece of paperwork was signed.
Also the USA does “unconstitutional” shit and breaks its own laws all the time. It’s not like bad stuff miraculously stopped happening when the “magic paper” was written. Frankly, there’s plenty of nigh-undefendable bad stuff IN the US constitutional to begin with.