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Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday. Tom Send a noteboard - 27/05/2012 08:43:58 PM
As far as I'm aware, the United States has only one religious holiday that is a Federal holiday - Christmas Day. You get Milk Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. The mailmen get a few other days off as well, like Veterans' Day and Columbus Day, but that's about it.

However, don't forget that the US may be religious as a nation, but our government is rabidly secular (perhaps for that reason). If they tried to make Easter Monday a holiday you would see a massive outcry among other groups, though of course no one bats an eyelash here in NY if Jewish people are just absent on Jewish holidays (which usually comes out to half the month of September, a few days in December and then a few more days around Easter - I don't think they take off for Shavuot or Purim, though).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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For Our Nordmenn: What Happens to Federal Religious Holidays in the Absence of a State Church? - 27/05/2012 01:33:20 PM 1032 Views
Nothing, they are federal holidays still because of strong unions, not religion - 27/05/2012 06:58:52 PM 456 Views
Hypocrisy FTW, eh? - 27/05/2012 11:04:38 PM 602 Views
No. - 27/05/2012 11:16:11 PM 425 Views
Nothing. - 27/05/2012 07:03:07 PM 416 Views
Replacing it with another, secular, holiday seems the responsible thing to do. - 27/05/2012 11:15:11 PM 381 Views
People. Don't. Care. - 27/05/2012 11:29:07 PM 448 Views
Most of them are stolen from heden traditions and have nothing to do with christianity. - 27/05/2012 07:15:55 PM 623 Views
It's all about watching Kalle Anka and Karl-Bertil Jonsson - 27/05/2012 07:40:45 PM 465 Views
YES! *NM* - 27/05/2012 10:48:06 PM 438 Views
Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday. - 27/05/2012 08:43:58 PM 493 Views
That is rather debatable. - 28/05/2012 12:08:53 AM 541 Views
The Distinction - 29/05/2012 07:41:47 PM 503 Views
This succession of two long weekends is rather nice, yes. - 28/05/2012 01:41:05 AM 411 Views
I think Grunnlovsdagen ate Ascension Day. - 28/05/2012 02:57:27 AM 514 Views
It's funny how you use "federal" to mean "mandated by national government". - 28/05/2012 03:49:17 PM 422 Views
I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 28/05/2012 04:26:38 PM 453 Views
Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 28/05/2012 04:50:32 PM 420 Views
Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 01/06/2012 02:03:40 AM 607 Views
I think you've got the Scotland Act backwards. - 01/06/2012 09:48:36 AM 530 Views
I did, though the practical effect is much the same. - 01/06/2012 08:41:03 PM 520 Views
There's a lot of countries that call "devolution" federalism, though. - 01/06/2012 09:52:23 PM 519 Views
What about when most of the country is still under central control? - 02/06/2012 10:25:47 AM 423 Views
I wasn't saying the UK is a normal federal country. - 02/06/2012 10:17:08 PM 471 Views
There is a Campaign for an English Parliament. - 03/06/2012 10:12:21 AM 403 Views

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