When O Lord will your people rise up and speak out against their persecution? The ACLU and other groups have made school districts unwilling partners in their march to remove Christmas from schools and other public venues. The link below describes the over-reacting of a school district in Texas. For fear of offending people with the red and green colors of Christmas, the school board has banned green and red clothing at their winter dance and instructed students to only wear white.
Let me follow the logic for a second. Green and red symbolize Christmas and Christmas could offend people so we must ban green and red from school functions. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I guess the threat of a lawsuit from some liberal, atheist jerk-ass is enough to destroy the sprit of Christmas and lead to banning of colors. Enjoy the article. Later...............
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41955
UPDATE: Follow this link for the latest news on the case, and the Feds have opened a probe into the issue, details here.
Later....................
5 comments:
I agree with the red and green thing... that's going too far. But here's two additional thoughts:
(1) We live in a Christian country. Those who don't celebrate Chirstmas (like myself) may need to just get over it already, and accept that America revolves around Christmas this time of year, and we can just let them enjoy their holiday and not get upset about red and green, or pointsettias, or even a Santa here and there - it's not meant to be dismissive of us...
(2) Religion has no place in public school, and Christmas *is* a religious holiday - that is, a holiday for adheents of a particular religion. Teaching about holidays (all holidays) in school is fine, but the expectation of observance of or participation in religion-related rituals (trimming a tree, singing about Jesus) is NOT. I don't my non-Christian kids participating in the traditions of other religions, as a matter of principle.
Thanks for your comment B2. I respect your principles and commend you for having some unlike others in America. I don't have a problem with schools not having Christmas parties and things of that nature. But when they start banning colors and preventing kids from even saying Merry Christmas (another story, same kind of thing), they have gone to far.
The Mad Tech
Arrgggghhhh! What about all the little red headed girls and boys? What'll they do?
Maybe the time has come to ban all official government holidays. Christmas is obvious. New Years--offensive to those who celebrate Chinese or Jewish New Year at a different time. President's day (Wash/Lincoln birthday) offensive to the Original Settlers (aka Indians). MLK Birthday--obvious. Passover/Easter--Judeo/Christian. Memorial Day/4th of July--offensive to immigrants and Orig. Settlers. Labor Day--offensive to the unemployed. Columbus Day--already half-eliminated. Thanksgiving--obvious.
Okay--so we're left with Arbor Day and Halloween. Make those the only two "official" government holidays and we're home free, right?
The one that really cracked me up was Bay Harbor Islands in Florida ruling that the menorah was not a religious symbol, so it could be displayed, but a nativity scene had to be banned.
Believe it or not, there are some who are reacting to Christmas displays this year as "mean-spirited" displays of Bushitler triumph. The grinch on DU
They should ban red and green outfits. Two colors have never clashed more.
Geez - Even santa doesn't wear red and green together!
Downtown Lad
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