*sigh*...we multi-cultural societies sure do have a delicate problem....unlike Muslim countries where almost everyone agrees on what to celebrate & how. If we gave religious days off to everyone who might want them, very little work or schooling would get done! What if we were to add Ramadan, etc. to Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah?...and I'm sure I've missed some..

If I were to design the rules, anyone could take time off without penatly for their own religious holidays, but NO religious days would close schools and businesses. Wait....then atheists would say "unfair! We don't get ANY days off". See the problem?

The writer of the article has a vague point, but he sure won't get far just declaring folks traditions to be irrelevant.