LAS VEGAS: It may look incongruous but Christmas is well celebrated in this Sin City although it’s noticeably more on the material side.

Christmas is a national holiday in the United States although there’s an increasing number of Americans who don’t want religion to make any incursions in national affairs. I was in Jacksonville, Florida more than a year ago when somebody filed a petition before the courts seeking to stop the conducting by a pastor of prayers before the start of classes every Monday.

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