Texas Liberals... Just Damn!!!
From 12/15 -
Plano school district bans Christmas colors
District forbids red and green; only white allowed at “winter break” parties
“Jesus” pencils and candy canes with religious notes also axed; ADF and LLI sue
Release Date: 2004-12-15
Primary Category: Religious Freedom
ADF Media Relations
480-444-0020
PLANO, Texas—Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Legal Institute filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against the Plano Independent School District for a discriminatory policy that censors the Christmas religious expression of students and their parents.
“The policy is a perfect example of politically correct extremism,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb. “School officials have gone so far as to prohibit students from wearing red and green at their ‘winter break’ parties because they claim they are Christmas colors. Even the plates and napkins must be white. The district’s policy is ludicrous to even the most common observer.”
In addition to banning Christmas colors, school officials have prohibited students from exchanging candy canes and pencils with religious messages on them, using reindeer symbols, or writing “Merry Christmas” on greeting cards to U.S. soldiers because the phrase might “offend someone.” The district has even applied its policy to parents involved in school activities, barring them from exchanging “religious” Christmas items with other parents.
“The district’s policy is what is offensive. It is offensive to the 96 percent of Americans who celebrate Christmas,” McCaleb said. “If the district truly wants to avoid offending someone, then they will change their incredibly restrictive and unconstitutional policy.”
The lawsuit, Jonathan Morgan, et al., v. the Plano Independent School District, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that public schools must prohibit the distribution of candy canes or Christmas cards. They have never ruled that you can’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ in the public schools,” McCaleb explained. “These attempts to stifle all religious expression and sanitize Christmas of all religious content are tiring to the overwhelming majority of Texans and all Americans.”
As part of its second annual Christmas Project (www.alliancedefensefund.org/story/?id=529), ADF so far has contacted over 5,000 school districts across the nation explaining the law with regard to the celebration of Christmas in the public schools.
ADF is America’s largest legal alliance defending religious liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
What shades of red were restricted I wonder? Sounds like policy a liberal mind would hatch.
It's high time to throw the money changers out of the temple.
About d@amn time!
I have been watching the slow erosion of Christian expression but this year, it became an avalanche!
It's okay if school system's have kids dress up as Arabs and read from the Koran but it is so not okay if they even have something green and red in the school over the "Winter break"? Ridiculous.
When did Christians become an endangered species, for Pete's sake? Don't answer that. Rhetorical question.
Hey....easy on the word Halloween (and the colors),
they might start doing research....
The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year.
Now the DOJ needs to go after the ACLU, the root cause for most of these incredibly stupid and anti-Constitutional actions.
Texas Liberals... Just Damn!!!When will DOJ investigate the anti-Christian ,unlawful
arrests in Philadelphia --where the Christians are called
"hateful" and preaching the Bible equated with "fighting words"--SO much for city of brotherly love-eh?
*sigh*
I remember hanging out at Plano HS's parking lot with a bunch of other kids sixteen years ago.
New guy in town, kinda funny looking, wondering what there was to do in this town.
Those were the days.
/sarcasm