Newsmax.com by Tammy Bruce (excerpts):  Usually around Christmas time we can count on a variety of stories where bizarre leftist worshipping of political correctness imposes itself on civilization with obsessive efforts to eradicate the word "Christmas" itself and public displays of faith.  You know the drill; it's "Holiday Trees" and "Holiday Season," and "Winter Celebration."  The left is thrilled we are a nation right now where Occupy Wall Street's nihilistic thugs command the public square, while the nativity scene and baby Jesus remain banned as "offensive" to one miserable group or another.  This, of course, has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with the atheistic and narcissistic left trying to impose its hopeless, Godless view of the world on everyone else.  It's one thing for the usual liberal Gestapos or the odd atheist to pull that craven cart through society, but now even more disturbingly it appears President Barack Obama himself isn't even remotely trying to hide his contempt for Christianity and its importance to our great nation.  

Just a few days ago, Obama and the White House went out of its way to issue a special proclamation for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "festival of sacrifice."  In an official White House statement, the president and first lady gushed about Eid and congratulated Muslims involved in the Hajj "pilgrimage."  This very same president deliberately ignored Easter this year, the most holy of Christian holidays, by snubbing Christians here and around the world.  In April, there was disbelief that the White House issued no proclamation about Easter, let alone a personal statement by the president and his wife.  Newsmax noted:

"By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha."  On top of neglecting Easter, the president "also failed to release a statement marking Good Friday."  The White House did, however, "release an eight paragraph statement heralding Earth Day," which fell on Good Friday. 

Most of us recognized a problem with a man whose spiritual leader and father figure (Jeremiah Wright) ran a church where pleading to God to "damn" America was standard, but it now seems Obama's contempt for this nation is personal and isn't even something he bothers to mask.  In addition to gestures by this president indicating a personal contempt for the Christian foundation of this country, in the past 72 hours Americans were dumbfounded by the announcement of a "Christmas Tree Tax" by Obama's Department of Agriculture.  Only after significant outrage was directed at the president and federal government for such an astounding proposal, was a "delay" in the implementation of the tax announced.  

Really, imagine if the federal government even contemplated, let alone announced, a tax on Muslim prayer rugs.  There is a precedent for this type of tax - in the Muslim world it's called the "Jizya - a tax levied on non-Muslim citizens only.

Commentary:  The Word of God has a few things to say about this kind of thing, "As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler (or president) over the poor people" Proverbs 28:15.  "We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians 6:12.