If it's OK to mention and teach about Channukah and Kwanzaa, it seems downright wrong to completely forbid any mention of Christmas, regardless of the fact that Christmas is an expression of the dominant culture. Every tradition within our diverse nation deserves recognition and respect.

I absolutely support diversity and, for that matter, secularism, but I feel that much of the effort to recognize alternate and minority viewpoints goes way too far in the other direction, overcompensating way too much and giving "ammunition" to the crackpot fundamentalists.

We don't need to give the neoconservatives anything they can legitimately complain about.