Christmas without the boycotts wouldn't be Christmas  The
Cocklebur  Another Christmas season. Another boycott. Christians
sure know how to make the most of their best PR opportunity of
the year don't they?  By now everyone's aware of the controversy
over the anti-religious message behind the book trilogy of
British author Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy
and how that was softened (for good or ill depending on how
paranoid you are) for translation to the big screen.  Although
I'm not surprised, I'm wondering why Christian pastors seem to
fall into the traps set for them by secular journalists looking
for this chestnut to roast by the fire every December?  It would
be easy to criticize people for commenting without reading the
book or seeing the movie, but it wouldn't have prevented the
story when there's always going to be a loudmouth rent-a-quote
from the Christian fringes more than willing to play the outrage
game.  No, I think I'm just disappointed that the question of
how Christian's consume