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Successfully Stopping Santa and A-Caroling We Won't Go

Monday, December 15, 2003

By Scott Norvell



The ACLU has successfully stopped Santa from visiting public schools in
Baldwin, Kan., because his presence constitutes illegal proselytizing by

school, reports the Baldwin City Signal.

After receiving a letter of complaint from the American Civil Liberties
Union (search), the school board there voted to put a stop to the

activities and said it will re-examine how it treats all religious

in the schools.

The ACLU complained that in a visit to an elementary school last year,

gave out candy canes and asked the kids why Christmas is celebrated. The
kids had the nerve to pop up and answer Jesus' birthday.

Rewriting History

High school students in Florida studying World War II (search) could be
forgiven for thinking the American armed forces were happily integrated

that people of color died in numbers equal to whites during the conflict,
reports the Palm Beach Post.

The main history textbook used by students in Palm Beach County high
schools, a Prentice Hall effort titled "A World Conflict," presents what

World War II vet describes as a view of the conflict colored by

correct lenses.

The first five pages of the WWII chapter cover such topics as women in the
armed forces, racial segregation and the war, black Americans and the home
front, Japanese Americans being interned, and women and the war effort.

Some 292,000 Americans died in the conflict, almost all of them white, but
in the school texts, white male soldiers are represented far less in

and words than all the others.

Not the Right Kind of Victim

A student who is being harassed at Pennsylvania State University had to

the college after her complaints to administration officials were met with

you're-imagining-things and a cold shoulder, reports the Daily Collegian.

Vicky Cangelosi resigned her position in student government and said she
would leave the university because she attended a controversial,

private party. The party was controversial because it was hosted by a
College Republican leader and one of the attendees was dressed in

Matt Midles, a gay student leader, said the harassment serves Cangelosi
right.

"I'm glad that you've been given an insight to what the students who have
been targeted feel every day," he told the paper. "You're being treated

same way that I've been treated my whole life."

A-Caroling We Won't Go

A Washington state teacher substituted the word "Christmas" with the word
"winter" in a carol to be sung at a school program so as not to appear to

favoring one faith over another, reports the Tacoma News Tribune.

Music teacher Mark Denison of Clover Creek Elementary in Bethel, Wash.,
changed the lyrics in Dale Wood's "Carol From an Irish Cabin" to read:

harsh wind blows down from the mountains, and blows a white winter to me."

A Hanukkah song that includes lyrics about the "mighty miracle" of

ancient days will be included in the program, however.

Didn't They Used to Call Those .

A middle school in New York state has borrowed from the early 16th-century
German custom of bringing a tree into a building and adorning it with
decorations, reports the Oswego Daily Herald.

But it is not a Christmas tree, said teacher Debbie Smith. It is a
"diversity tree" and is decorated with ornaments celebrating the world's
cultural, ethnic and religious differences.

Repeat: It is not a Christmas tree.

Under Any Circumstances

A Philadelphia elementary school principal who spelled out a racial

while lecturing pupils about what sort of words are not acceptable in

is under investigation, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

District officials have not decided whether to take disciplinary action
against Mary Rita Sheldon, principal of the predominately black Overbrook
Educational Center, but they have mandated diversity training for the

staff as a result.

KYW News Radio reports that the principal was reprimanding a class in

a visually impaired student was called a "one-eyed jack." Miss Sheldon
reportedly stated to the children, "How would you like it if I called you

n-i-g-g-e-r?"

Parents are demanding that Sheldon be removed from her post. "The use of

N-word in any context is inappropriate," said parent Carol Bangura, mother
of an eighth-grade student.

Those Enlightened French

A commission in France has recommended that Muslim students not be allowed
to wear headscarves or other "conspicuous" religious signs in school

they violate the country's secular traditions, reports the BBC.

Such a ban, if approved by President Jacques Chirac (search), also would
outlaw Jewish kippas, or skullcaps, and large Christian crosses.

Chirac has said that France feels under attack by the display of such

of "religious proselytism" which run "totally contrary to its secular
tradition."

For a daily dose of politically correct shenanigans, head over to the

Tied Web site.

Mailbag:

Dennis R. corrects our Indiana Xmas tree item:

It's "Currier and Ives" not "Courier."

Joel S. writes:

If the Native American student group complaining about Michigamua "because
it sounds too much like a Native American word and is therefore
disrespectful" were to be consistent, then they ought to also object to

very name of the University and State.

The State Library tells us: "Michigan" comes from the Indian word
"Michigama" meaning great or big lake. The French first used the word for
the Great Lake that Native Americans called the "Lake of the

Lake Michigan. It was first used officially to refer to this land area

Congress created the Territory of Michigan in 1805."

Scott W. writes:

One wonders if the Meriden Library System will now feel inclined to remove
books containing paintings of "The Last Supper", or statues of David.
Perhaps they could just tear the offending pictures out of the books,

have a bonfire in the parking lot.

The question I have is this: Just where would you have a picture of Jesus

a "non-religious' setting"? Of course! Maybe that would be Jesus Alou in

outfield for the San Francisco Giants. Unless his name has been excised
because of religious connotations.

In the words of Lewis Carroll, "It's getting curiouser and curioser."

Helen N. in Boulder Creek, Calif., writes:

I am a Jew, and in elementary school I refused to sing songs about "Christ
the Savior" and to write an essay about the sounds of Christmas. That's
right, I asked to be excluded, rather than be forced to participate in
someone else's religion. I have never, however, felt excluded by a tree
(decorated or otherwise)!

Barbara D. in Massachusetts writes:

OK, let me get this straight: Purdue University was forced to remove a
Christmas tree because of the anguish a student suffered due to feelings

"exclusion" upon viewing said tree. But when Sister Souljah spewed her
anti-white racist venom in a speech at the University of Louisville, an
upset student was told that "the university has a responsibility to place
people in uncomfortable situations to help them grow."

So let's get this straight: it's okay to be upset over a Christmas tree

it's not okay to be upset over racist speech? Does that mean it's okay for

white student to complain about, say, a Kwanza decoration but it's not

for a black student to be upset over an anti-black racist speech? Sure
sounds that way to me.

Nate W. in Phoenix writes:

Regarding Sister Souljah being invited to speak at University of

in Kentucky. I guess I don't mind her being paid to come in and spout her
racist bigotted message. However in the interests of fairness, perhaps

should also invite David Duke to come in and spout his racist pap as well.
Oh, and of course they would have to pay him a similar amount of money for
his idiocy.

Erik in Dayton, Ohio, writes:

This will probably come as a shock to you, but there are actually people

this country who do not share the same religious beliefs as you. And

or not you agree with it, they have the right to not be discriminated
against. Would it still be 'whining' if it were christians who were

by an islamic display? Maybe you should keep that in mind in your next
attempt at 'fair and balanced' reporting.

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Successfully Stopping Santa and A-Caroling We Won't Go

Nice work liberals, these articles show your true colors.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,105744,00.html