By R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee recently incited a controversy in his state over an unlikely issue — what to call the large decorated evergreen tree in the Statehouse. Mr. Chafee insists that the blue spruce is a “holiday tree,” suggesting that calling the official tree a “Christmas tree” would be akin to requiring schoolchildren to pray.

The governor’s dictate flies in the face of his state’s House of Representatives, which passed a resolution requiring the tree to be known as a Christmas tree “and not as a ‘holiday tree’ or other non-traditional terms.”

Regardless of the governor’s concern, the people of Rhode Island are not likely to follow his dictate. The decorated evergreen tree is now so commonly associated with Christmas that no amount of political correctness can convince Americans that the tree is merely about generic winter holidays.

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