On the 9th December 2004, a British national paper had the caption: ‘The Most Offensive Picture in Britain’ with the picture of the nativity on its front cover! The newspaper dedicated two full pages to the follies of companies and organisations that banned Christmas tinsel, Christmas calendars, Christmas parties, Christmas cards etc. from their premises, lest they offend those of other faiths. Those who were of other faiths were asked whether they were offended by Christmas celebrations and none of those asked were; in actual fact they thought it was foolishness.

The following year a law firm commissioned a survey; they asked two thousand bosses whether their firms would be allowing Christmas decorations to be displayed in their offices. Two thirds said that they would not allow Christmas trees or decorations to be displayed on their premises. Some bosses stated that under the equal rights terms, they would have to hang decorations celebrating all other religions’ special occasions. For others it was probably a good excuse not to spend extra money.

On the 20th October 2004, a British national newspaper had the caption ‘Christmas Banned in Religious Education’ on its front page – as a fifty-five minute teaching video entitled ‘A Child Eye View of Festivals’ promoting religious festivals had ignored Christmas and Easter! Christian Church leaders alongside education experts condemned the British video which hundreds of schools had already ordered. The video extols the teaching on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the Chinese New Year, the Hindu festival of Divali and the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr. The video is aimed at three to six year olds to promote religious tolerance and to help children understand different cultures, yet ten’s of thousands of children will not be told about the significance of Christmas or Easter which all evolves around the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ – the ‘founder’ of Christianity which is the cornerstone of the Western world, and these celebrations are two of the main festivals in the religious calendar, and not just the Christian calendar. There are 12 million children in the UK, but only 756,000 regularly attend church.

In December 2005 the Breakout Trust, a Christian charity sent every primary school in the UK (25,199) an animated cartoon film, ‘It’s a Boy!’ telling the story of Jesus' birth through the eyes of quails. It was created after a boy asked the question, “Why did Mary and Joseph name their baby after a swear word?” The films aim is to ensure a basic level of teaching in schools.

On the 1st November 2005, a British national newspaper highlighted south London’s Lambeth’s Council political-correctness, who insisted on renaming the Christmas display as ‘Winter Lights’ so as not to offend those of other faiths. In three districts they were called Winter Lights on posters and flyers to publicise the switching-on ceremonies, while in the fourth, they were called Celebrity Lights. Local residents of all faiths were left bemused by the gesture – saying that Christmas could never offend them.