Why must we have generic holidays?

In our beautiful and well-organized Haines Library, where all the staff and volunteers are so helpful and knowledgeable, why has no one thought to include the words “Happy Hanukkah” or “Merry Christmas” at the annual Lighting of the Tree ceremony? We all grew up in a Judeo-Christian society, so why must we have generic holidays? I don’t get it. Does anyone have any objections to this, and, if so, why? If we keep striving to be politically correct in every area, we lose all our traditions and rituals, the stuff we carry forward from our childhood memories, so why not be able to cherish them?

To go on being so generic is to render sterile everything we hold dear.

Lizzie Fisher