Posted on 12/25/2010 8:28:41 AM PST by Kaslin
(Yeah, I know the whole point of these “debates” is for our "betters" to decide for us and then assume the power needed to bring us to heel.)
Remember when Time magazine had the pic of Newt Gingrich as the Grinch, because he wanted to balance the budget? Turns out, all the Grinches and Ebenezer Scrooges (before the ghostly visitations) are from the Left. Whether it’s Pelosi and Reid pushing their Socialistic agenda after losing big in the recent elections, or miserable, unhappy, busybody fuddyduddies wanting to ruin Christmas, lookl like the Democrats and the Left want to eliminate fun and enjoyment out of American lives.
Nothing more than a day or a week off for vacation because probably 90% or more of families and faculty (Christian or not) wouldn't show up even if school was in session
Somehow I don't think diwali or loy krathong have the same draw in America and the same potential absenteeism
He doesn't suggest schools cancel days off for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, if we can't take a day off for the death of every ethnically venerated figure, then none of them.
If not for holidays schools would have to find some other reason to stand down once in a while and let families spend time together
Merry Christmas. This the season to be Jolly.
They DO, however go directly to destroying the minds of children by indoctrinating them with satanic (the anti-thesis to Christian is anti-Christian - thus anti-Christ ... Satanic) worship of self, Gaia, Mao, obama, the state ... etc., etc.
Screw you perfessah .. you have unintelligible, meaningless words and I am your enemy.
Hey ‘’professor’’, check this out. A few years back the city of Paterson NJ, closed the public schools on Ramadan. Paterson has a large Saracen(muslim) population. Yup. The school board closed the schools to honor the demon prophet. Maybe you can tell me ‘’professor’’, when is the last time any public schools anywhere in the US closed on St. Patricks Day?
Have you ever noticed that it is always one person that complains about something and the authorities cave in to that one person because they don’t want to hurt his or her pathetic little feeling. Instead of sticking up for the majority and telling the person live with it
Another baseless opinion by an uneducated dolt who does not know the difference between Freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion. If this “professor” gets his wish, he will be deemed OBSOLETE.
From his webpage, this clown got his PhD in the "Study of Religion" from Harvard.
Someday perhaps our country will not be burdened with fools from Harvard.
Of course not.
For one thing, MLK Jr. is probably BU's most famous plagiarist graduate.
There are other considerations, too, not exactly unique to BU.
I idn’t know the birthday of Martin Luther King was a religious holiday
make that didn’t
Boston, and Suffolk county celebrate a public holiday - "Evacuation Day"
- every March 17.
It's quite the Hibernian affair, a parade, a political elite and not-so-elite breakfast, etc.
Evacuation Day as a public holiday is a bone of contention between public employees and the taxpayers of MA.
Another ‘perfessur’ who needs to have his tenure broken & his job ended.
These self-appointed experts make me sick.
Most working people treat it as another paid day off, or a wage multiplier that day.
Prothero is in my opinion an edicated IDIOT. If he were an educated man he would understand the US Constitution is a written instrument,as such it’s meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted-it means now.” If true in 1905 when Justice David Brewer wrote for the unanimous supreme Court South Carolina v. the United States. and I believe it was True then it necessarily must have been true looking back to when it was adopted. And if true then True even today.
Commentaries written closer to the adoption of the Constitution and Amendments have greater weight in understanding its meaning so the Idiots ascribed “reading”
of the Constitution is worthless than cow dung.
BTTT
And there is that matter of the twice passed Northwest Ordinance Article III declares Religion,Morality, and Knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, Schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.The Northwest Ordinance was made in pursuance to the US Constitution and when we allowed the Courts to remove Religion from the equation of education the other principles Morality,and Knowledge could not stand alone. And as Joseph Story wrote in his commentaries when the first Amendment was adopted the general if not universal sentiment in America was that religion,and especially the Christian Religion should receive encouragement from the State ... an attempt to level all Religions or make it a matter of policy to hold all in utter indifference would have created universal disapprobation if not universal indignation.”
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