The Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, SC, created a firestorm of yuletide controversy after they told a volunteer that he would not be allowed to dress up as Santa Claus, according to FoxNews.Posted on 11/25/2011 8:58:08 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
A South Carolina cancer center that gave Santa Claus the boot has reversed its decision, but said they will ban any Christmas decorations that are religious in nature - including the Nativity.
The Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, SC, created a firestorm of yuletide controversy after they told a volunteer that he would not be allowed to dress up as Santa Claus, according to FoxNews.
Their Santa ban lasted about two days before they reversed course.
"Perhaps we stumbled here," Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said. "We are very well aware that Santa is not a religious figure, but we are a state institution and we wanted to tone down the overt commercial and any religious aspects to it."
Did you catch that? A cancer treatment center wants to "tone down" any religious aspects of Christmas!
So Santa gets a reprieve - but religious-themed Christmas decorations do not.
"That still stands," Agnew said. "We've got a diverse population here and a lot of folks celebrate the season differently – or don't celebrate it."
Hollings will not allow any religious symbols - at all.
"No Nativity scenes," Agnew said.
They’re too stupid to make the connection!
re: Needs to ban trees, the colors red and green, St. Nicholas, stars on top of the trees, Christmas carols...
You are right. Nearly all of the symbols of Christmas have religious connections. Even the supposedly neutral word “holiday” is religious. It means holy day. Holly and ivy are religious, as the lyrics of the Christmas song, “The Holly and the Ivy” explain:
1. The holly and the ivy,
Now both are full well grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
Chorus
Oh, the rising of the sun,
The running of the deer.
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir
2. The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flower;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Savior.
3. The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good.
4. The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas day in the morn.
5. The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all.
6. The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
7. The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.
or Medical University of SC (MUSC) president Dr. Raymond Greenberg 
would mind.
I’d bet that all donations to that organization by Christians will get their attention.
The all knowing, all powerwful, all wise obama. or The Great White Father in Washington. Afterall, he took of the Indians.
These people are not only stupid, they are criminally ignorant. Happy Holydays to them.
Santa is not religious! Far fom it!
You can say “Santa”, but not “Saint”
Imagine banning Christ from a center that sorely needs His healing prsence. and which is probably prayed for by 90% or more of its visitors
OK, ban Christmas.
But then I want to see all those state workers WORKING
on Dec. 25 (wouldn’t want anyone to get the idea
that the state is condoning a religion...)
What a bunch of intolerant haters they are.
Deny Him before man and He will deny you before His Father.
My brother sees Christmas displays with religious themes in Thailand, even!
Why is it a state institution? We need to privatize healthcare, all of it.
I assume there are NO other religious icons OF ANY KIND also.
The ‘state’ will NEVER replace God to those who are in GOD!
The important question is whether one is constitutionally protected from being offended. It seems to me that offensive speech is the only type that needs protection.
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Almost like banning food in a food bank.
Sad..
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