Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hot-button issue -- School orders 'Christmas' excised
OneNewsNow.com ^ | OneNewsNow.com | Ed Thomas

Posted on 11/08/2007 12:25:15 PM PST by fweingart

One of the primary advocates in an annual campaign to keep the word "Christmas" in the public square says it has donated 1,000 Christmas buttons to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) club at a high school in Maryland.

The American Family Association (AFA) says the FCA chapter at Glenelg High School in Howard County was told by the school's principal that signs posted by members around campus -- for their "Operation Christmas Child" project -- needed to be changed. He allegedly forced them to cover the word "Christmas" and replace it with "Holiday." School officials did not immediately answer a request from OneNewsNow for comment.

The FCA's local project -- which is not affiliated with the annual nationwide collection of shoebox gifts by the ministry of Franklin Graham -- collects toys for children of incarcerated parents. As part of the project, the FCA chapter was posting signs encouraging students to help those less fortunate. AFA spokesperson Cindy Roberts says the 1,000 buttons -- stating "Merry Christmas: God's Good News" -- have been offered to restore the original religious message of the club's posters.

"AFA wants every student in the school to have a button to wear. Putting the word 'Christmas' on a poster is hardly a violation of separation of church and state. [Forbidding] it does, however, establish hostility toward Christians," she says.

Roberts says the school should be called on to uphold rights assured by the Constitution, including free speech and exercise of religion.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: antichristmas; atheists; christianstudents; christmas; fca; jesusbirthday; purge
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last
He allegedly forced them to cover the word "Christmas" and replace it with "Holiday."

Parents need to splash some cold water on their faces and begin acting like parents. Those muslims moving in next door would never stand for this insult!

1 posted on 11/08/2007 12:25:16 PM PST by fweingart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: fweingart
He allegedly forced them to cover the word "Christmas" and replace it with "Holiday."

HELL would freeze over before ANYONE FORCED ME to cover the word Christmas..........just go ahead and try me sucka.

2 posted on 11/08/2007 12:31:11 PM PST by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

Glenelg High School. My old Alma Mater. I am proud of them today.

Go Gladiators! Beat Athelton!!!


3 posted on 11/08/2007 12:33:04 PM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

Fine. Cancel the “Christmas” vacation where the school is closed for a couple of weeks. For just a “holiday” a long weekend should be adequate. Ditto all the government offices.


4 posted on 11/08/2007 12:33:27 PM PST by tips up
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

This doesn’t surprise to me at all happening here in the People’s Republic of Maryland.


5 posted on 11/08/2007 12:33:45 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

And the secular socialists scoff when we call them on their war on Christmas (and religion).

It’s because they MUST operate from concealment, and any exposure leads to certain defeat.

Keep that in mind, FReepers, never let a SS hide behind “good intentions” or denial that they are out to destroy traditional culture.


6 posted on 11/08/2007 12:35:43 PM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

The attack on Christmas has begun!!

And it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.

Wake up America!!! Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion on the ropes, again!!


7 posted on 11/08/2007 12:35:54 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConorMacNessa
“People’s Republic of Maryland.”

Oops! There’s another possible infraction!

Make that the People’s Republic of Womanland.

To closely associated with the Nativity story to be allowed!!!

8 posted on 11/08/2007 12:37:29 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: tips up
Ditto all the government offices
I believe this is the ONLY reason govt has not outlawed the Christmas holiday.
9 posted on 11/08/2007 12:37:39 PM PST by SF Republican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TruthConquers
Wake up America!!! Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion on the ropes, again!!

By the time many of our fellow Americans wake up there will be a newly constructed mosque across the street.

The liberal pansies, who we've allowed to rule us, are atheists who have sold their souls to satan.

10 posted on 11/08/2007 12:38:47 PM PST by fweingart (FRED! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: gridlock

....glad to have gotten out of Howard County and retired to the mountains of North Carolina....I remember when Glenelg HS first opened that part of the state was Anglo-European/Judeo-Christian....guess things have changed.

Stonewalls (late of Clarksville)


11 posted on 11/08/2007 12:39:31 PM PST by STONEWALLS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: tips up

Amen, bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


12 posted on 11/08/2007 12:40:08 PM PST by FrdmLvr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

How very true are your words.


13 posted on 11/08/2007 12:40:49 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: fweingart
Those muslims moving in next door would never stand for this insult!

literally. There is a hug mosque being built on Rte. 108 in Clarksville/Columbia.
14 posted on 11/08/2007 12:41:09 PM PST by piperpilot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: piperpilot

oops, I meant *huge* mosque.


15 posted on 11/08/2007 12:42:39 PM PST by piperpilot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: fweingart

The left desperately wants to eliminate all signs of Christianity.


16 posted on 11/08/2007 12:45:07 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConorMacNessa
This doesn’t surprise to me at all happening here in the People’s Republic of Maryland.

Happened in Pennsylvania twenty five years ago.

17 posted on 11/08/2007 12:46:05 PM PST by Abby4116
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
I think if hillary wins you’ll have some kooks on the left suggesting that Christian's be feed to the lions again.
18 posted on 11/08/2007 12:46:43 PM PST by mainerforglobalwarming
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: STONEWALLS

So, did you go to the old Clarksville Middle School? That was a good school. I was sad to see it close.


19 posted on 11/08/2007 12:47:20 PM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: piperpilot

Counlty commissioners in Greene County, Ohio, I’m told, are about to vote on allowing construction of a muslim ‘cultural center’ near Bellbrook, Ohio.


20 posted on 11/08/2007 12:48:27 PM PST by fweingart (FRED! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson