Posted on 12/02/2012 7:40:55 PM PST by massmike
Frosty the Snowman is there — and so is Santa Claus. But the Baby Jesus is stuffed inside a closet at Cottondale Elementary School — leaving many residents of this small town in the Florida panhandle outraged.
The Nativity scene had been a part of the school’s holiday lawn decorations for years. But this year the yuletide display is strictly secular.
Principal Brenda Jones told television station WJHG the decision to keep Baby Jesus in the closet came after an official with the Dept. of Education dropped by to discuss the separation of church and state.
“The Dept. of Education came in and talked to us about the legalities of religion in the school systems and the separation of the two,” Jones told the television station.
In an attempt to be fair to everyone, the principal said, “We decided that we would just not put the Nativity scene out on campus.”
The decision has sparked controversy among the 869 residents who live in this gulf coast community. Officials with the Jackson County School Board did not return calls seeking comment.
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I’ve got a question. since Martin Luther King was a preacher...
are the same nuts that go after Nativity scenes going to try to ban celebration of Martin Luther King Day too?
Of course, that was back when Americans of their own volition worked together, before it became all the rage for everyone with a chip in their self centered little shoulders to sow discord wherever possible.
Actually it won’t be long before they ban “holiday” once they realize it’s an elision of “holy day”.
FMCDH(BITS)
LOL
Dennis Leary huh. He is very politically incorrect. Yet I think he said he’s a dummycrap.
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