Spanish province of Asturias says goodbye to “Christmas” and hello to “winter holidays”

La Stampa ^ | 5/21/2013 | Marco Tosatti

[markomalley]

The Asturian government has decided to do its bit to help eradicate Spain’s Christian cultural roots. The regional government’s education minister, Doña Ana González Rodríguez, sent a circular round to all schools under her jurisdiction, asking them to remove the terms “Christmas” and “Holy Week” from the school calendar.

Mrs. Gonzalez wants all references to Christianity to be replaced with equivalents such as “winter holidays” and “end of second term holidays” that are acceptable to everyone, including non Christians.

There’s just one problem though. The decision was taken without consulting the schools in question or the parents. Naturally, the Observatory for Religious Freedom and Freedom of Conscience (OLRC) asked Mrs. Gonzalez to take into account common sentiment and respect for tradition and urged her to work towards ensuring young people get the rounded education they are so in need of at the moment. ORLC spokeswoman Maria Garcia criticised Mrs. Gonzalez’s brilliant attempt at trying to get people to forget Spain’s Christian roots.

According to the Socialist government of the Principate of Asturias, this decision was taken so as “not to hurt peoples’ sensitivities.” Celebrations “have always been called Christmas and Holy Week/Easter and no one has been offended by that,” the ORLC argued. “But Asturia’s education minister thought she could achieve this week of nothingness without consulting the education community’s leading figures. At ORLC we cannot understand how exactly how people’s sensitivities are being offended and we are asking Doña Ana González to explain her reasons.”

“The ORLC therefore urges the Minister to renounce her secularist aspirations, seeing as though Spain is a country with Christian roots , which cannot simply be forgotten from one minute to the next,” Maria Garcia added. One must not forget that the process of reconquering land invaded by the northern African Muslim invaders many centuries ago began in Asturias.

Asturias’ socialist government is copying what many other European socialist governments seem to be doing. There was a heated controversy in Belgium in recent weeks, over a ministerial circular which banned people from talking about “Easter holidays”, replacing it instead with “spring holidays”. On this occasion too, the justification given was the need for secularised public institutions that would not “offend” non Christian immigrants.

So November’s All Saints Day celebration will be called “autumn leave”; the Christmas holidays will become “winter holidays” and even the Carnival is being pushed aside and replaced with “relaxation leave”. Flemish and Waloon nationalists have spoken out against the umpteenth attempt to destroy Belgium’s Christian heritage.

[sergeantdave]

How about all citizens replace references to Doña Ana González Rodríguez as Nazi bitch whore.

[markomalley]

While at it, remove the word "Holiday" and replace it with 'vacation' or 'break' or 'time out'. I fail to see what's so holy about winter and second term. Where's the first term holiday? Autumn holiday? Summer holiday? Spring holiday?

Very true...since the etomology of "holiday" refers back to "Holy Day" (yet another one of those dastardly Catholic concepts)

[Celtic Conservative]

In furtherance of the governments goals also, the term "education minister" should be replaced with "asshat".

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[CaspersGh0sts]

Unsurprisingly, a short-haired woman who looks like a man.



Someone thought it would be great to give this woman authority of a child's education.

I've long ago said it's time to dump public education. I'll pay for the right not to have my kids subjected to this nonsense. This woman and the like need to be flushed and publically humiliated.