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12/03/2005
Notes from Abroad: Merry Christmas from Singapore, from the Senator
The streets are aglow here with holiday signs, lights and such. The word Christ has not been taken out of Christmas, here in a country that is about one-third Christian. No one minds, protests or files lawsuits. Each religion gets to fully and publicly display its holidays. There was a very large Christmas sign and cross in the Indian restaurant where we dined today. Each culture allows the others to enjoy their holidays, and the gummint foots the bill for lots of it. A very pretty site, here.
Back home it's still the same rag-tag group trying to do away with any references to religion, saying it's about freedom from religion, which of course stops freedom of religion. Singapore, full of "strict laws," allows more religious freedom than our own, formerly freedom-loving, country. Increasingly I see more personal freedom in countries outside the US, a stronger distrust of government, a passionate hatred of communism: something I have rarely seen stateside.
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