Posted on 12/23/2004 12:37:09 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker
"It was a holiday party," said Muscara [the school principal]. "It was not a Christmas party. There is a separation of church and state. We have a lot of students that go to Hampton Academy Junior High that have different religions. We have to be sensitive to that."
It takes a special kind of stupid to ban Santa Claus for being a religious symbol.
Old Cracker wrote:
"So you wouldn't mind if someone showed up at a Christmas party wearing red robes and sporting a pentagram necklace?"
That is an extremely interesting question. I certainly hope that students are allowed to wear yarmulkes, hijabs and crosses if they are observant Jews, Muslims and Christians respectively.
So what would a teacher do if confronted by a student wearing a pentagram necklace?
Santa Claus is associated with one and only one holiday: Christmas. Christmas is the celebration of Christ's birth. It's not really that tough. I love this story though. It's hilarious. The more insane the left gets, the better.
Sure, why not, get the guy fired and sue the school as well.
If the ACLU is the only one doing it, then only the ACLU will win with the results.
How does an INDIVIDUAL wearing anything constitute a problem with separation of church and state? It is not the state that forced him to wear the suit! The last time I checked it seems that this is an obvious slap at the kid's freedom of expression and freedom of religion. This principal should be sent to sensitivity training for a whole BLOODY YEAR to learn how to tolerate religious people (even pseudo religious people). Isn't that what the PC crowd wants us to do?
Oh yeah! I could not agree more.
In fact, the more of this cr@p I hear, the more I lean toward violent retribution.
So true. Its time to take back some of the ground we've given up (without a fight).
I cannot wait until the table breaks and we can stick the heads of principals like his on pikes.
The table is not going to break because when they do these things they do them to individuals NOT a crowd. What will YOU do when such blatant unreason, unfairness and just plain un american viciousness is turned upon YOU?
There was nothing stopping anyone from having this principal's head on a pike--outside of a lack of balls.
Duh.
Santa is a secular symbol for the Winter Holidays (just like Frosty the Snowman). Santa, as we know him, was pretty much created by Coke-a-cola (at least his visual representation). Red robes and a pentagram have no connection to the winter holiday (at least not in our culture).
Now, allow me to wax pedant:
The pentagram was used by the early Christians to symbolize Christ Transfigured and Catholic cardinals wear red robes.
What religion is Santa representing?
Santa Claus is an attempt to take religion out of the December 25th winter holiday.
Reminds me of FR.
Before FR, you didn't see any conservatives or mainstream people out protesting or gathering for anything much at all.
It was ground granted away by conservatives.
FR changed that and in the same way, people have to go to court to make the days of leftist and the ACLU a living hell on earth.
Once they don't have all the money to pay and go in to court, they will do lots less court stuff.
Would be a good result and FR would be a place to get that going IMO.
The United Latter Day Brethren of the Universal and Everlasting Greed.
:-)
This is the Hampton Public Junior High School!
You have again proven an old saying of my Father: "There are more horses asses than there are horses!"
Wouldn't wait up for Santa on Christmas eve, if I were you!
E-mailed; hope others will do the same
Try not to notice.
My first reaction was that maybe it was more a matter of not wearing a proper coat and tie than a matter of political correctness. But the principal's statement simply rules that out.
He should be fired for stupidity.
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