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“Cancel Christmas” says “Favourite” British Labour Think Tank (It “Offends” Immigrants)

LONDON, November 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Like the wicked Sherriff of Nottingham in the 1991 film “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves”, a Labour party think tank wants to cancel Christmas on the grounds that it is a “white” holiday which offends Britain’s immigrants. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), described as the ruling party’s “favourite” policy office that has shaped many Labour policies, says Christmas “should be downgraded to help race relations.”
The IPPR also proposes secularised “birth ceremonies” in which the state and parents agree on the best way to rear children; the abolition of sitting Anglican bishops in the House of Lords; an end to “sectarian” religious education and flying flags other than the Union flag.
The report says that the state should “recast the civic oaths and national ceremonies” such as the coronation of the monarch and the ceremonies surrounding the opening of Parliament, “in a more “multi-religious or secular form and make religious education less sectarian.”

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