Lewd and immoral
2019-12-19 18:37:00.146309+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Let's talk about the War on Christmas, shall we? 'Lewd and immoral': Inside the centuries-long war to sanitise Christmas carols:
The Puritans famously tried to ban Christmas precisely because it was not solemn enough. In 1643, UK parliament passed an ordinance requiring citizens to observe Christmas day with “the more solemn humiliation because it may call to remembrance our sins, and the sins of our forefathers who have turned this Feast, pretending the memory of Christ, into an extreme forgetfulness of him, by giving liberty to carnal and sensual delights’.