Perhaps you’ve seen this 2012 YouTube video, capturing a Christmas-caroling flash mob. Distracted shoppers busily scurry through a large metropolitan mall when suddenly one shopper begins singing “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.” At first the regular shoppers notice the planned singers with confusion and curiosity, but before long many join in with the litany…
“The month of December does not just belong to religion or Christianity.” Those were the words of Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation—the organization responsible for erecting the letter A next to the nativity scene and Menorah in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza this Christmas. Even though the Plaza’s…