Wed Nov 14, 11:04 PM ET

Political correctness sinks to a new low.

“Santas in Australia’s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas’s traditional “ho ho ho” greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.

Sydney’s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say “ha ha ha” instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

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I discovered this blog comment at a site called Emerging Africa and it is one of the best I’ve read regarding the call for Evangelical Churches to be “inclusive”:

Inclusion is their choice

I believe we ought to be inclusive people, but the choice to be included is the choice of those who are currently not a part of us. We go looking for them, in the sense that we offer them the ability to be included. Why not invite a Muslim friend to a prayer meeting? Why not allow gay people to be in our church?

I’ll tell you why they won’t come : because if the church is to be an inclusive community, it is also to be a relational one. Here’s why. Well, we call it a ‘community.’ Communities are about relationship. If you said ’should the church be an inclusive institution’ I would say that’s a little impossible, because ‘church’ (as we know) means in itself a ‘called out people’ and implies a community of people.

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