All I want for Christmas is another roll of duct tape

While I quietly groan at the stories of Christians becoming very aggressive in their defense of Christmas and the overtly-consumeristic and secularistic use of the holiday (that's "holy day"), I certainly do defend their wanting to do this. I am as sick of the hijacking of this most precious and sacred of days as anyone.

But just when I think I've come to a peace with all of it and am able to separate the two, an article like this comes along and finds me scrambling for my duct tape in a frantic effort to wrap it around my head to keep the pieces from exploding all over the living room. Such is the case when I read the secularization of the lyrics of Silent Night:

For a performance in its "winter program," a Wisconsin elementary school has changed the beloved Christmas carol "Silent Night," calling the song "Cold in the Night" and secularizing the lyrics.

According to Liberty Counsel, a religious-liberty law firm representing a student's parent, kids who attend Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wis., will sing the following lyrics to the tune of "Silent Night":

Cold in the night, no one in sight,
winter winds whirl and bite,
how I wish I were happy and warm,
safe with my family out of the storm.