Dreaming Of A Pink Christmas

by Chris Bodenner
Dan Savage highlights two nutty dispatches from the culture war:

from the left

A Dutch gay group has organized a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys. … The organization Christians for Truth says the idea "mocks the core concepts of Evangelism."

and the right

Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary’s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers’s “We’re Gonna Make It” as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry … gathered six deep around the altar to have their foreheads anointed with consecrated oil.