Although this has been going on for 15 years, why did they have to wait until, what is recognized by many Christians as a high Christian day, to actually make the proclamation? Why have many other steps also made to down play the day in a Christian manner? No short of being a taunt. It is to instigate the right to cause the swing that leads to a moral enforcement that is coming. "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:12).