Ethics

Teabaggers and the War on Christmas

By Ed Brayton

As if the tea party movement needed to get any more ridiculous, a teabagger from Redding, California named Merry Hyatt wants to make the singing of Christmas carols mandatory in public schools. Seriously.

Merry Hyatt has found allies in her quest to put an initiative on the ballot next year requiring public schools to play Christmas carols.

Hyatt, who moved to Redding four months ago, said she joined the Redding Tea Party Patriots and recruited several members to help her collect the 433,971 signatures needed by March 29.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).