CHRISTMAS Tree vs. Holiday Tree (11/21/11)

Now I am not the type of guy who wants to offend others by pushing my beliefs down peoples' throats. I just need to try and grasp the fact that at 50 years old, I am now being told that we no longer call them Christmas trees, we call them Holiday trees.   I DON'T AGREE.  I live in an apartment building and we received a notice about making sure we only put artificial Holiday trees up this year, since real Holiday trees are a fire hazard.  I was truly offended by this.   We live in Oklahoma, the Bible Belt, and I am not a highly religious person, although I was born and raised a Catholic.  I believe in God.  I don't feel that I should be "politically correct" and call the tree a holiday tree - we celebrate many holidays - we don't put a holiday tree up at Easter, or on Thanksgiving, or on the 4th of July.  We put up a Christmas tree for Christmas.   If you don't celebrate Christmas - then why does your right to not celebrate give you the right to dictate to the rest of us that we have to stop saying Christmas tree.   I say Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays.   I don't feel I'm alone in this.   When is the majority of Americans who do celebrate Christmas going to stop bending over to the minority and allowing them to dictate their ways to us?   That is my Thought of the Day.