Bigots find their place in the sun

The amount of times I hear people say "It's true - it was in the papers" Then you ask "which paper?" only to hear "The Sun" and they are being serious. My god.

Little Anecdote. The Sun printed a story in the build up to Christmas the Eden Project had banned Christmas from even being mentioned. All parties who were booking to have Christmas family fun there were being told that it was a "none denominational festival" that was called the "time of giving gifts". There would be no symbolism that was specific to Christmas used in any of the literature circulating about the Eden project.

This was "PC gone mad" once more and had to be stopped - and Muslims were probably to blame. SO SAYETH THE SUN!

Anyway, I rang their press office posing as a local journo - So pissed off I was at the bigots in the office mumbling "bloody muslims" and "it's PC gone mad" over their packed lunches - and got told the following.

"off the record? It's absolute bullshit! On the record - and please use this quote - it has been referred tot he festival of giving gifts because it runs from the start of December until Easter time. To use just the word 'Christmas' in our literature would be bad for business because people wouldn't think to come and visit us after Christmas had finished. It is not none denomintaional - it is multi denominational - and, of course, this includes Christianity. If you look at our current leaflets promoting Christmas parties, not only are they called Christmas parties, they have all sorts of traditional imagery on the leaflets... At no point have we received complaints asking us to "ban" Christmas" (the phrase "Sorry, Christmas is banned" appeared as the headline)

When I asked what they would be doing the press officer just said "We have seen the report, it has only appeared in the Sun that we know of, and we will be passing it to our legal team". I never knew what come of it.