For 20 years, they have put up a Christmas tree in the Orange County Superior Courthouse. I’m talkin’ California — Bob Dornan country (at least it used to be that).
The tree is part of “Operation Santa Claus,” which gives gifts to poor children. This year, a member of the public complained about the tree, and, on the basis of that one person’s complaint, the court ditched the tree.
Said a spokeswoman, “It’s a public building and we have to serve the diversity of our community.”
But other people were not willing to accept that view of American life and law.
Court employees petitioned for the reinstatement of the tree; citizens at large gave the court an earful, too. Long story short: The court’s powers-that-be brought back the tree.
Who said every one of these “War on Christmas” stories has to have an unhappy ending?
And who said that, on hearing the word “diversity,” every Christmas tree must wilt?
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