Secular Left's intolerance of religious freedom

With Advent underway, get ready for the annual debate over whether stores should say “Merry Christmas” (offensive to non-Christians, critics say) or “Season’s greetings” (a capitulation to political correctness, many Christians say).

This is a silly flap (I say let the hypercommercialized, secularized holiday take on its own name, like “Holiday Sale,” and use “Christmas” when celebrating our savior’s birth). More importantly, the argument over nomenclature distracts from a far more serious threat: the U.S. government’s war on the freedom of conscience.