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Santa ordered disrobed at 'holiday' event: 'Separation of church and state' cited
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, December 24, 2004

Posted on 12/24/2004 1:18:44 AM PST by JohnHuang2

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A seventh-grade student who thought a Santa Claus outfit might add cheer to a "holiday" event at school was sadly mistaken when he was ordered to remove the red suit and white beard due, according to the principal, to concern about the so-called "separation of church and state."


Ho, ho, no

Bryan Lafond's costume at a Hampton Academy Junior High School dance in Hampton, N.H., last Friday was "inappropriate" for a dress-up dance, said Superintendent James Gaylord, who denied any connection to religious concerns, the Manchester Union-Leader reported.

But the academy's principal, Fred Muscara, told a Hampton newspaper, "It was a holiday party. 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."

Nancy Serpis, chairman of the Hampton School Board, told the Manchester paper when asked about the costume, "It's nice if we can respect one another's religious beliefs."

"We try to be sensitive to everyone and in trying to do that, sometimes people feel excluded," she said.

Gaylord maintained barring the costume was not an act of political correctness but a violation of the dress code for the "dress-up" dance.

Lafond was told to go to a locker room to remove the Santa suit, but he left the building, creating a possible safety issue, said Gaylord.

The superintendent also was concerned the beard covering the student's face made it difficult to know who was behind it.

To Gaylord's knowledge, no other student wore a costume.




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To: SirLurkedalot
sorry for yelling,

No need to say sorry its something we've not been doing enough of if we don't take our country back in the next 4 years we will be a communist country in the next 8 !!

Its time to start yelling all over and not stop until the enemy is deafened and defeated !
41 posted on 12/24/2004 5:42:22 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Merry CHRISTmas and happy new year everyone i love you all !)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

If I could transmit my real anger about all of this you would all be picking shards of monitor glass from your foreheads for a week. Just being polite.


42 posted on 12/24/2004 5:46:55 AM PST by SirLurkedalot (Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!!!)
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To: JohnHuang2

Merry Festivus.


43 posted on 12/24/2004 5:47:18 AM PST by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: cardinal4

No, it is not you. I have noticed more this "Holiday" season too.


44 posted on 12/24/2004 6:24:02 AM PST by Inyo-Mono (Proud member of P.O.O.P., People Offended by Offended People.)
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To: JohnHuang2
The kid should have said he was dressed as Sheik Omar, the "Blind Sheik" responsible for the 1993 WTC bombings.

He would have been welcomed as a "political prisoner".

45 posted on 12/24/2004 6:41:39 AM PST by Former Dodger ("False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. " - Plato)
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To: Cvengr

The more these people try to defend the indefensible, the sillier they look.


46 posted on 12/24/2004 6:52:28 AM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: JohnHuang2

Since when was Santa part of the church and state thingy? Well, he may be the patron saint of crass commercialism. The school officials are morons.


47 posted on 12/24/2004 6:54:42 AM PST by Jaded (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain)
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To: SirLurkedalot
Tell a lie long enough and people believe its the truth.
Of course, it helps when the entire MSM is telling the same lie over and over.

Like the right to "privacy", separation of church and state was written in invisible ink and not discovered by lawyers until 160 years after the 1st Amendment war written.
48 posted on 12/24/2004 7:27:54 AM PST by rcocean
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To: rcocean

LOL Or how the Second Amendment refers to a National Guard decades before it's creation.


49 posted on 12/24/2004 7:39:48 AM PST by SirLurkedalot (Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!!!)
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To: JohnHuang2

They are becoming atheist Nazis, secular commissars.


50 posted on 12/24/2004 7:42:15 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: SirLurkedalot
Santa ordered disrobed at 'holiday' event: 'Separation of church and ACLU cited?

/sarcasm?

Merry Christmas!

51 posted on 12/24/2004 7:45:17 AM PST by maestro
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To: rpellegrini

I don't think many of them are smart enough to realize that -- yet, and zero-tolerance policies sure don't help endear public education to students (victims) and their parents either.


52 posted on 12/24/2004 8:02:31 AM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: JohnHuang2

Do I also understand that this happened at a PRIVATE school, yet the principal is so ignorant as to harp about church and state?

MM


53 posted on 12/24/2004 8:05:44 AM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: JohnHuang2

I forget... was Santa a shepherd or one of the 3 wise men?


54 posted on 12/24/2004 8:08:28 AM PST by woofie
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To: Casloy

EXACTLY! While reading this I said to hubby "What's next, banning Bugs Bunny? Homer Simpson? Greek myths?" I mean sheesh, Santa is NOT a religious symbol. What a bunch of PC idiots.


55 posted on 12/24/2004 9:00:13 AM PST by Annie03
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To: politicalwit

Now that is a fascinating tidbit....what a piece of work that one is.....glad she is still rotting in prison.


56 posted on 12/24/2004 9:06:32 AM PST by Annie03
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To: jimboster

Thanx!
I put it to good use spreading, er, Holiday cheer!

(Yea, that's it!)


57 posted on 12/24/2004 10:09:30 AM PST by rockrr (Sticks & Stones may break my bones, but Taglines never hurt me)
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To: JohnHuang2

Hey Christians,,,this is what happens when you allow something like santa clause to get into your religion!


58 posted on 12/24/2004 10:14:37 AM PST by patriot_wes
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To: JohnHuang2

If these edukators who profess this politically correct "seperation of church and state" really believe it does exist in the Constitution, why don't they demonstrate the courage of their own convictions and refuse to take a paid holiday at Christmas?


59 posted on 12/24/2004 10:14:41 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: JohnHuang2
But the academy's principal, Fred Muscara, told a Hampton newspaper, "It was a holiday party. 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."

A holiday party... what holiday were they celebrating? This is Christmas, and those with different religions celebrate their own holidays.

LOL, and what does Santa have to do with the Church? How about dressing up as a reindeer, I guess we have the problem of “separation of church and state” as well.

60 posted on 12/24/2004 2:09:38 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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