University Responds to Controversial “Hotty Toddy Holiday” Name Change

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   charlie Kemp

   December 10, 2015 at 12:12 am

   Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, hence the name Christmas. It is poor taste and ridiculous to worry about inclusive of other faiths. If anyone wants to participate in Christmas celebration they would be included. My father was Jewish and love the Christmas holidays. Celebrated with great feeling. If someone’s feelings are hurt then it is their problem .Ole Miss needs to prepare these kids for the real world and stop being a nursery.
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   TampaRebel

   December 10, 2015 at 8:37 am

   Oy vey! Christian fascists strike again. Christians need to put more time and effort into putting the “Christ” back into “CHRISTIAN” instead of putting so much of their time and effort into forcing everyone to conform to their narrow and silly un-Christ-like rules. Children are starving, violence and injustice are rampant but the most important issue on some “Christians” minds is whether or not EVERYONE says Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays. It’s enough to make the baby Jesus cry.

   It’s Christian correctness gone mad!

   “I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians. They’re so unlike your Christ” – Mahatma Gandhi

   Happy Hotty Toddy Holidays!
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   TampaRebel

   December 10, 2015 at 8:47 am

   @Charlie Kemp, sorry but your are incorrect. Christmas was a pagan holiday that was stolen by Christians, along with the pagan traditions (e.g. “Christmas” trees, Yule logs, etc.) to celebrate a mythical event (birth of a “son of god) that Christians also stole from numerous other religions (Horace myth, Mythra myth. Osiris myth, Krishna myth, etc.) If you don’t believe me, look them up. They tell the nativity story almost to a word, except a thousand or more years before the Christians claimed it as their very own while disparaging the religions they stole their myths from.

   Likewise Christians stole Easter and other religious holidays from pagan religions that preceded them.

   Merry Mythramas! Happy Horacedays!
4. 

   Carolyn Rains

   December 10, 2015 at 8:53 am

   When you pledge allegiance to this country you will understand our founding fathers who died for the freedom we know formed this nation as “one nation under God” . There is no “other” God. If you can’t live with that, don’t come to this country and don’t pretend to honor those who shed their blood to follow the Lord Jesus Christ when they established this great USA.
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   merl scott

   December 10, 2015 at 9:37 am

   this saa .how many of them are from miss.and how many are on state funded grant. I think we have lost it on trying to please everybody. if we are not careful we will loose our values trying to plese the outsiders. we are going to far
6. 

   Waite Ligon

   December 10, 2015 at 9:52 am

   PC mafia at work on campus again. Disgusting!
7. 

   Sharon

   December 10, 2015 at 10:04 am

   I feel bad for the poor kid that said this. He was clearly trying to express a desire for more inclusivity and a more welcoming holiday celebration, and instead the frothing Fox News crowd attacks him for waging a “war on Christmas.” If you think being tolerant of other beliefs is offensive, you should probably take a hard look at 1.) the Bible and 2.) the values this country was founded on.
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   JW

   December 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm

   Christmas is a Christian holiday. It celebrates the birth of Christ. If you are going to have a Christmas Event, please call it that and don’t worry about those of other faiths…they can celebrate their own holiday because ours is a country with religious freedom (not freedom from religion). This was poorly handled and is an embarrassment. Just gives our haters more ammunition and this time in a national forum. Just don’t have the event at all if you are too PC to give Christ credit for Christmas.
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   John

   December 11, 2015 at 10:31 am

   Very bad PR to try to appease non Christians and atheist. The “holidays” exist because of Christmas.