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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I'd be fine with getting rid of Christmas as a Federal holiday. Why are we pandering to one group? Why don't we have Eid as a Federal holiday? Why not Yom Kippur? Why not Beltane? Every religion has its "big deal Holy days" but only Christians get an automatic paid day off or bonus pay for working it, and don't have to use up personal time for the privilege.

When I worked as a patent attorney at Eastman Kodak, the Jewish attorneys in our department were given some of the Jewish holidays off as paid holidays in addition to Christmas so they ended up with more holidays than the rest of us. Don't have a clue to how it was handled throughout the rest of the company. The same practice went on elsewhere I worked as well.