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Why? Maybe the owner knows that all of the employees really need those extra wages to make sure that there are presents under the Too Busy Frolicking Shirt for Christmas morning. Maybe all of the employees bought the presents days ago … using money for the utility bill that means a dark house before New Year’s Eve without some extra hours. Due to location (e.g., next to a very popular mall) it might mean that staying open on Christmas Eve is one of the biggest nights for waitstaff tipping the entire year. Most important of all. What business (in every sense of the word) is it of yours whether a dining establishment remains open on Christmas Eve? Are you a Christian theocrat? Do you advocate government control over commercial enterprises for the purpose of enforcing a given religion’s canonical dictates? If a business owner is paying employees their proper wages for that specific evening (or even holiday), you may wish to simply butt out and find something else to worry about.

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I adore the world of Christmas traditions, which vary from Too Busy Frolicking Shirt to country … I also enjoy the ancient pre-Christian traditions behind most Christmas customs. Diwali is a lovely tradition that coincides with autumn and shares a lot of imagery (IMO) with Hanukkah, the tradition of my own ancestors. (We made a bigger deal of Christmas at home.) I am all for the human impulse to fill the winter months with light and celebration. I’ve always considered them “the holidays,” and I have no personal desire to put Christ in Christmas. I also don’t want my government to do so. I’ll gladly wish you “Merry Christmas” if I know it’s your tradition. But it’s not mine. That’s not persecution, and it’s only traditionalism if it’s your tradition. Christmas presents have nothing to do with Christianity. Neither do almost all of the Christmas customs of hanging holly and mistletoe, decorating trees, drinking egg nog, Santa Claus, jingling sleigh bells. etc. In the religiously strict Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrating Christmas was illegal, as their leaders recognized that almost all of the festivities were continuations of pagan practices. Merchandisers have gotten rich by popularizing the giving of gifts at Christmas and they spend heavily every year to promote this secular mania. So feel free to give Christmas presents to any of your friends and relations regardless of race, religion age or sexual orientation.

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