View this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#Reformation_into_the_19th_century

To celebrate this year’s continued secularization of Christ-mas at the hands of gay fascists and half-breed Muslins, here’s some Christmas history:

During the Reformation, some Puritans condemned Christmas celebration as “trappings of popery” and the “rags of the Beast.” The Roman Catholic Church responded by promoting the festival in a more religiously oriented form. Following the Parliamentarian victory over King Charles I during the English Civil War, England’s Puritan rulers banned Christmas, in 1647. Pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities, and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans. The Restoration of Charles II in 1660 ended the ban, but many clergymen still disapproved of Christmas celebration.

That’s right, you Monarchists. (Via 3QD.)