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For their Christmas Holiday concert Kings Park school in Long Island cut several religious references from their music. It was too offensive. It’s an Obama world. “Silent Night” is now too offensive to sing at school. CBS Local reported: The song “Silent Night” is at the heart of a concert controversy on Long Island. Kings Park school officials removed several religious references, including “Holy infant” and “Christ the Savior,” from the popular Christmas carol before a student concert last week, WCBS 880′s Mike Xirinachs reported. The intent was to avoid offending non-Christians, but the change left others upset. “I’m not...

An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party. Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned—along with the colors red and green. … Ironically, the school is located in the district of state Rep. Pat Fallon, the author of a bill signed into law in June that codifies...

Every year the attacks on Christmas by intolerant leftists seem to be more ludicrous and start earlier. But at least some teachers are denouncing the anti-Christian bias of New York City's failed government school monopoly. "Christian educators are weary and outraged at this latest affront to freedom of expression," said Finn Laursen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International, a 50-year-old national association of teachers from government and private schools. The organization stated today in a news release: Jewish and Islamic symbols are allowed, the district says, "because they have a secular dimension, but the Christian symbols are purely...