If you'd like to enter into the Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays debate, the L.A. Times has enough scary quotes in "School Yuletide Observances Shift Into Neutral" (link) (2nd link) to fill your stocking to the brim.

The ironic thing about all this is that in their urge to strike against displays of Christianity, the secularists/multiculturalists/"liberals"/a-holes have brought the pagan part of Christmas to the fore. Mangers are verboten, but gift giving and Christmas trees are OK. Perhaps those in favor of a (real) holiday season could sue to stop all such favoritism towards paganism.

Even the word "yule", as used in the title of the L.A. Times article, is derived from a pre-conversion Germanic pagan festival. And, the word "holiday" is derived the Old English for "holy day". That formulation may have appeared in Germanic languages before the conversion to Christianity. In that case, a "holiday" would have meant a pagan festival and it now literally means a holy day.

There's more on the past history of the Winter Fest in the following:

Puritans disdained holiday
seacoastonline . com/news/exeter/12172004/news/54421.htm

Pagan Origins of Modern Christmas Traditions
paganwiccan.about . com/cs/aboutyule/a/paganxmas.htm

When did Christmas become a political statement?
edmondsun.teamemagine . com/story.php?story_id=51673&c=24

'Tis the time to feel offended, tra-la-la-la
fortwayne . com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/10448901.htm

Public Schools: Are They Missing the Baby Jesus?
headlines.agapepress . org/archive/12/132004mc.asp

Anthony Browne: Unholy war on Christmas
theaustralian.news . com . au/common/story_page/0,5744,11762484%5E7583,00.html

Generic greeting doesn't leave Christians feeling merry
lancasteronline . com/pages/news/local/4/10484

Bill White: A Merry Pagan Christmas And The Search For The True Meaning Of Christ
english.pravda . ru/main/2001/12/28/24666.html

Pagan Claus
locksley . com/6696/xmas2.htm

AntiChristmas
dogeatdogma.sed . ca/antixmas/antichristmas.htm