For many reasons. But this is his latest episode of dumbassery:
Senator Won’t Ride Horse in ‘Holiday’ Parade
He’s not that interested in aviation safety matters such as reading Notices to Airmen, either.
It gets better:
Don’t expect any action to be taken against him, obviously. Different spanks for different ranks, ya know.
Ah. The annual ‘War on Christmas.’ It never fails to warm the cockles of my black icy heart. I figure at the rate that we secular-humanist-God-hating-atheistic-fascist bastards are removing Christ from the public sphere … we’ll be rid of Christianity as a whole by the 52nd or 53rd century. I can’t wait.
What holiday is the parade for?
The word “holiday” connotes a false sense of inclusion. Certainly there are several holidays celebrated this time of year, yet “holiday” serves to obscure them all rather them bring any of them to the fore.
Even the plural “holidays” is preferable to the singular “holiday” in this context.
Boy, you can barely see that hair, it’s been split so fine, Moto.
The holidays encompass everything from Thanksgiving to New Years. This isn’t a difficult concept to understand. Holiday when used as an adjective does not require a plural to refer to multiple holidays. I can go on a winter holiday vacation that spans Christmas and New Years and nobody would bat an eye.
A holiday event acknowledges and celebrates other religions while not excluding Christmas. That’s the kicker that cracks me up; he’s pissing about because Christmas doesn’t have the spotlight, not because it’s being excluded.
Were it something specific to Christmas, I might agree. I don’t think December 25th should be renamed Holiday Day or a tree should be called a Holiday Bush or anything. But a parade is just an event that doesn’t have any specific ties to Christmas, it’s just a winter celebration. Why not include the Jews and Muslims in the festivities?
How ever will the parade continue without the Senator?
We certainly can, and should. But wouldn’t it be better to do so by calling things by their actual names, like Islamic New Year, al-Adha, Hanukkah and 10 Tevet?
Especially since these holidays are considerably different from each other?
Are you suggesting they call it “The Tulsa Christmas, Hanukah and Islamic New Year Parade of Lights?” Because I think the signage alone would cost a fortune.
No, it wouldn’t be better. It’d be unwieldy. That’s why one word suffices.
What do all those things have in common? You got it. They are all holidays. Ergo, a parade that encompasses any and/or all seasonal holidays is appropriately a Holiday Parade.
Are you suggesting multiple, faith-specific parades, or just one parade with a really long name?
No. But calling it the Parade of Lights seems like it would be fine - in a similar fashion Pittsburgh has been marking the start of the season with a Light Up Night for fifty years without any controversy at all.
Yes, that would be fine. Holiday Parade of Lights is also fine. So what’s the problem again?
But then Jim Inhofe would rather curse the darkness. This is what gets called “the culture of victimhood” when conservatives are mocking liberals.
(And let’s not forget Tết Nguyên Đán, people.)
The Holiday Parade of Lights - Featuring Jesus, savior of retail business.
Well, there wasn’t anything inherently wrong with holiday or holidays - until a bunch of risk-averse bureaucrats started applying this term to Christmas even in places where this was inappropriate. For several years the Christmas tree in Washington DC was officially a “holiday tree” until someone with sense officially named it a Christmas tree again.
Certain members of the public, by no means restricted to conservatives or Christians, found this fairly ridiculous. Many did not care for it. And this distaste has unfortunately affected the use of the word “holiday” in general.
At this point were I doing marketing for the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, I would just call it the (Tulsa) Parade of Lights for the reasons I stated above.
Parade of Lights is too close to Festival of Lights, total non-starter.
I suggest Parade for December.
Unnecessarily discriminates against November and January. 
The word “lights” connotes a false sense of illumination. Certainly there are several people celebrating that aren’t lighting any sort of lights this time of year, yet “lights” serves to obscure these folks.
In other words: either Inhofe is too stupid to figure out that the term is being applied properly in this case, or he’s an asshole who knows the term is perfectly appropriate here, but doesn’t care because he believes Christmas is the only one that counts or is pandering to voters who believe the same.
By the way, the Tulsa parade is on December 11th. So it’s closer to the Islamic New Year and the start of Hannukah than it is to Christmas. That’s one more reason it makes sense to call it a holiday parade.