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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 1210 Views
Nothing, they are federal holidays still because of strong unions, not religion - 27/05/2012 06:58:52 PM 624 Views
Hypocrisy FTW, eh? - 27/05/2012 11:04:38 PM 766 Views
No. - 27/05/2012 11:16:11 PM 583 Views
Nothing. - 27/05/2012 07:03:07 PM 580 Views
Replacing it with another, secular, holiday seems the responsible thing to do. - 27/05/2012 11:15:11 PM 550 Views
People. Don't. Care. - 27/05/2012 11:29:07 PM 606 Views
Most of them are stolen from heden traditions and have nothing to do with christianity. - 27/05/2012 07:15:55 PM 873 Views
It's all about watching Kalle Anka and Karl-Bertil Jonsson - 27/05/2012 07:40:45 PM 628 Views
YES! *NM* - 27/05/2012 10:48:06 PM 593 Views
Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday. - 27/05/2012 08:43:58 PM 656 Views
That is rather debatable. - 28/05/2012 12:08:53 AM 744 Views
The Distinction - 29/05/2012 07:41:47 PM 670 Views
This succession of two long weekends is rather nice, yes. - 28/05/2012 01:41:05 AM 566 Views
I think Grunnlovsdagen ate Ascension Day. - 28/05/2012 02:57:27 AM 667 Views
It's funny how you use "federal" to mean "mandated by national government". - 28/05/2012 03:49:17 PM 590 Views
I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 28/05/2012 04:26:38 PM 611 Views
Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 28/05/2012 04:50:32 PM 576 Views
Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK. - 01/06/2012 02:03:40 AM 786 Views
I think you've got the Scotland Act backwards. - 01/06/2012 09:48:36 AM 707 Views
I did, though the practical effect is much the same. - 01/06/2012 08:41:03 PM 675 Views
There's a lot of countries that call "devolution" federalism, though. - 01/06/2012 09:52:23 PM 678 Views
What about when most of the country is still under central control? - 02/06/2012 10:25:47 AM 592 Views
I wasn't saying the UK is a normal federal country. - 02/06/2012 10:17:08 PM 636 Views
There is a Campaign for an English Parliament. - 03/06/2012 10:12:21 AM 584 Views

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