UNC Bans Christmas Trees At Libraries

Dr. Mike Adams is a gadfly ... on the side of right. In a sea of leftism, he has become what many of us wish we could be: an irritant to the academic establishment.

Unfortunately, the rest of us don't have tenure.

Here he writes about the decision by associate provost of university libraries, Sarah Michalak, to remove Christmas tree from the UNC libraries.

The anti-Christmas lunacy that has been sweeping the nation has made its latest stop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Wilson and Davis libraries at UNC-Chapel Hill have for years been adorned with Christmas trees. But thanks to the associate provost of university libraries, Sarah Michalak, that tradition is about to be broken – you guessed it, all in the name of tolerance. Who was it that said the provost of university libraries doesn’t do important things!?

Michalak is claiming that her decision is based on several years’ worth of complaints made by people who were offended by the Christmas display. In other words, the Christophobic bigots that have made UNC-CH their home have pestered Michalak into removing the tree. They made life just hard enough for her to capitulate and order the removal of a simple Christmas tree.

There’s only one way to deal with university administrators like Michalak who make decisions based on convenience, not principle. We need to make things very inconvenient for them when they act in unprincipled ways. That’s why I sent Michalak a fax and email this morning saying “Christophobia is a Social Disease.” And I’m asking the hundreds of thousands of people who will read this column today to do the same with the following information:

Fax: 919-843-8936
Email: smichala@email.unc.edu

I decided to do my part and sent her this e-mail:

I read with interest Dr. Mike Adams’ article about your decision to remove Christmas trees from the UNC libraries. I recognize that minders of modern culture are interested in finding new ways to show their “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” by being intolerant of Christian traditions and excluding Christian symbols. Yours is simply another way of slapping Christians in the face, knowing that you will not be slapped back.

But in a way, it may be the proper thing to do. You may not be worthy of keeping Christmas in your institution. In the season when the Christian world celebrates the birth of Christ with displays of all kinds, it may be proper that UNC should be a dark island of nihilism in a sea of faith brightened by the one we call “The Light of the World.”

There is symbolism in a lack of symbols, isn’t there?