Atheist Group Backs Parents Upset School Wants To Take Kids To See ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’

CBS Atlanta ^ | November 20, 2012 | Unknown

[Las Vegas Ron]

Full title: Atheist Group Backs Parents Who Are Upset School Wants To Take Kids To See ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ At Church

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CBS Atlanta) — Charlie Brown has been caught in the crossfire of the “war on Christmas” mantra.

KARK-TV reports that some parents were upset that Terry Elementary School in Little Rock wanted to take children to go see a play of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at a local church.

[little jeremiah]

We have to look back and accept that the end of white, Christian, male privilege is over.

There is a positive side. In my community and at my job, there are all kinds of people, black, white, gay straight, religious and nonreligious living and working side by side. My boss is Latina, her boss is gay, the blbacks I work with are prospering. and I am so glad I lived to experience this.

You're on the wrong website.

[dfwgator]

Charles Schulz never forgot about the men he served with and made sure every year to remind his readers of it.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Do you want to go back to segregation, to women not getting higher education,

Go back to DU troll.

To Latinos being nothing more than gardeners and gays being shoved into the dark corners of society? Of course you don’t.

IBTZ!

[Las Vegas Ron]

BTTT for a fine post!

[Revolting cat!]

Do you want to go back to segregation, to women not getting higher education,

Cool, where do I sign up?

[Nowhere Man]

Wouldn’t it be less expensive to rent the DVD?

Or how about half-inch, helical scan, reel-to-reel in black and white only? B-)

I was wrong the tape was 1/2 inch not 1 inch as in my previous posts.

My father was a photographer, he also worked these machines too in the 1960's and 1970's.

Between old VTR's and the obamanization of this country, I feel old. B-P

[dfwgator]

If you’re ever in the area I highly recommend visiting the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, CA.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I’d love to, thank you for the recommendation.

I’ve been a fan of Peanuts since the strip began.

[edh]

“To Latinos being nothing more than gardeners and gays being shoved into the dark corners of society? Of course you don’t.”

What the liberal doesn’t understand is that the left WILL DO THIS TO THESE PEOPLE ONCE THEY ARE DONE USING THEM!!!!

Leftists are leeches. They USE people. They discard them after they are done using them. They act like they care at first, but once they’re done with you, you are nothing more than a drain on their glorious system.

I hope our Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan figures this out some day. Diversity is merely one of many deceptive tools used by the left to attain power. Once they attain that power, those minorities will be nothing more than fodder to preserve power.

I can care less about people’s race, color, creed, etc ... that never mattered to me. Character and integrity are all that matters. I get disgusted watching the left look like a bunch of sympathetic do-gooders when history clearly shows that these pathetic people tend to use minorities and dispose of those people once their pathway to power is complete.

[Nowhere Man]

Do you want to go back to segregation, to women not getting higher education,

Cool, where do I sign up?

I'm almost there myself. At least it was a time where a person can get a job, put in an honest days work and raise a family.

Things like sex were private. I get into trouble for saying this, I don't care who would have sex with as long as it is private, consentual and at or above the age of consent. Deep down, I don't care who you marry deep down inside as long as the above standards are met. I don't care who or what you worship as long as they don;t tell you to fly planes into buildings or sacrifice people or animals. I see myself as a bit of a libertarian where the Feds should have no say in it and leave it to each State or locality to tailor their society much like the Constitution intended to be. Still, being largely a Judeo-Christian country with a a Western based outlook that came from Greece and Rome, we are based on those values and like any other religion, Jews and Christians have the right to practice their beliefs and to have them. I admit I like to make up my own mind where my morals and thoughts lie.

Saying that, I am conservative socially, I just don't want the government much to do with it but I don't want the government to prohibit it either. I know I walk a tightrope here and yes, I do get both sides mad at me at times, but it is up to the people themselves to do the right thing and the values will trickle up on their own.

Hound, if there is a force to make Church laws, or any other religion, as the rule of the State, I support you, but to show kids a cartoon or have a discussion about Christmas or Hannukah in school is no problem.

I just want to enjoy Christmas and remember "the reason for the season" without getting "Pearl Harbored" by various special interest groups. Plus, even though there are times we can disagree, I do applaud people who hold onto their values.

Still, the way things are going, I'd take a time like the 1950's, even with the problems we had then.

[little jeremiah]

Hound is so happy he lives in the modern enlightened society where we can have government mandated gaydom diversity worship (but how horrible to have a Peanuts Christmas play for school children to see!):

U.S. Dept. of Labor Observes ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2961699/posts?page=1

[windsorknot]

Apparently Jihad isn’t just for Muslims.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

We have to look back and accept that the end of white, Christian, male privilege is over.

You (and your ideology) are the reason that Obama won, and that the USA is in its sunset years. There is no such thing as "white, Christian, male privilege" and there never was. Success has always been possible for those who pursue the American dream, regardless of race, color, or creed (even during the depths of slavery some black men and women achieved great things!).

What has made America great is its CULTURE. Period. Unlike most countries, where you are a citizen because of your birth (see Japan), America is open to all. It is an IDEA, not a place... and idea open to anyone who wishes to live by it.

But you and your ilk are dissatisfied with the responsibilities that come with that idea. You want to pick and choose what part of American culture is important. That's just as stupid as trying to build a pyramid from the top down. When you tear down the base of the culture, only a fool still expects the structure to still stand.

America was built on Judeo-Christian ideals and work-ethic (which is why our increasingly secular society is slouching into poverty and economic ruin). You want to excise that, yet still enjoy the benefits of that culture. You are a fool.

[cricket]

Have had it as well.

So; 'dear parents'; do what others have done when offended. Keep your kids home.

Or do; what many parents feel inclined - if not compelled - to do; when their values clash with those proscribed by the religion of Liberalism; fashioned by a public education 'group think. Go the full nine yards and Home School. Whereby; you are FREE, totally; to protect your child's atheism from 'undo' influences/covert 'values'; etc.; as might be found in a Charlie Brown Christmas. . .

[little jeremiah]

What do you mean “Jihad isn’t just for Mozlems”? That the atheists are jihading, or the Charlie Brown watchers are jihading?

[Pinkbell]

Shamar Stokes told KARK that he has a problem with the religious aspect but, in the end, “wouldn’t have a problem with my child going to see Charlie Brown.”

Bwahaha! America is so screwed.

[ilovesarah2012]

I went to school with black kids. My best friend in jr. high was a black girl. I grew up in So. Fla. and my best neighborhood friends were Cubans. Their mother didn’t even speak English but her husband did and they were very good friends with my mom.

My uncle (my mother’s brother in law) was Jewish and the whole family loved him.

And women went to college. Not in the numbers they do now, but they could if they wanted to. And I never, ever saw a Whites Only sign anywhere when I was growing up.

As for homosexuals - we had a male couple living next door for awhile when I was a kid and nobody egged their house or anything. Of course, they weren’t parading around the neighborhood forcing everyone to “celebrate diversity”, either.

Personally, I wish they would all get back in their little closets.

I work with a lot of black women and I love them. We all get along and have a good time together.

So America has always been a “melting pot” and we survived. The difference now is people like Obama are trying to pit one special group against another. That only serves to stir our “melting pot”.

First and foremost, we should all be Americans who want what is best for America - not for special interest groups! And put God back into our society!

Off my soapbox and going to get a cup of coffee!

[ilovesarah2012]

People seem to overlook these facts.

[napscoordinator]

They can’t find a community center to perform the play? If my kid was in public school and they wanted to see a play performed at the local mosque, I would be furious. I don’t understand why FREEPERS can’t see how it would upset people but FREEPERS would be cool if their kids went a mosque....VERY STRANGE Indeed.

[windsorknot]

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