Schools are quick to cave to the complaints of a single parent that is so weak in their own faith (even if that faith is atheism) that they think Christians should not be allowed to celebrate Christmas that it is insane. Some people simply don’t believe that our schools are run by such cowards, but it is true. Just look at the South Orange-Maplewood School District who has taken Christ out of Christmas for just this reason.
A public interest law firm has launched a new attack on what it calls an “anti-Christmas virus” evidenced by a school district that banned even traditional Christmas tunes.
The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Thomas More Law Center says its lawyers filed a brief in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in a case challenging a New Jersey district’s ban on the melodies.
“As so often is the case,” the firm said, “a complaint from one parent resulted in the district’s policy that banned the playing of all Christmas music, including simple instrumentals without words.”
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WND earlier reported on the case brought on behalf of Michael Stratechuk and his two children, who are students in the New Jersey district.
The district had decreed that performances would be limited to selections such as “Winter Wonderland” and “Frosty the Snowman,” with a complete ban on tuns about Jesus and even Santa Claus.
The high school’s brass ensemble had to rebuild its repertoire, the Martin Luther King Gospel Choir was ordered not to perform and “printed programs” were edited to remove any “graphics which refer to the holidays, such as Christmas trees.”
Just a year before the policy was imposed, the school district’s holiday concert had featured “Joy to the World,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and “Silent Night.’
The policy to cleanse the religious holiday of religious music was imposed after a closed-session meeting.
The Center’s brief says the ban “conveys the impermissible, government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion in violation of the Establishment Clause, and it deprives the students of the school district the right to receive information and ideas, an inherent corollary of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and academic freedom.”
“This anti-religious policy is yet another example of the militant hostility that many public schools have towards Christians and Christmas,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center.
I am sorry that one parent is so disgusted by the tenants of Christianity that they feel the need to silence Christians in a public place! But I will ask the same question I asked of the grinches at UNC who decided to remove Christmas Trees from their libraries because of complaints which, dare I say could have probably been counted on one hand. If 50 parents came to you and complained that Christ was taken out of Christmas would the complaints of those 50 outweigh the grievance of the one? A one who is not having any of their rights infringed upon mind you. No, I’m sure that it would not because I am sure that there would be some sort of liberal psychobabble concocted that would justify Christ’s continued ban from the public school on the basis that Christians were insensitive, sexist, racist homophobic bigots because the school said so.
These days, the only people that have the freedom of their religion it seems are people that are any faith other than Christian.
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