It’s difficult to think of anything less controversial than Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts crew but the classic Christmas special mentions Christianity explicitly which is a problem for some people.
A staffer at a middle school in Texas decided to use imagery from the special as decorations but was told the decorations had to come down.
Todd Starnes of FOX News reported:
School censors “Charlie Brown Christmas” posterOne of the most poignant scenes in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is when Linus stands on a stage and recites a passage from the Holy Bible describing the Christmas story.“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,” Linus said…Dedra Shannon, a staffer at Patterson Middle School in Killeen, Texas, was so inspired by the scene she decided to use images to decorate the door to the nurse’s office.The decorations included a picture of Linus, the scrawny Christmas tree and that classic passage of dialogue about the true meaning of the holiday.The decorations were installed on December 5. On December 7, Ms. Shannon was confronted by the school’s principal.“She said, ‘please don’t hate me, but unfortunately you’re going to have to take your poster down,” Ms. Shannon said. “I’m disappointed. It is a slap in the face of Christianity.”The principal went on to explain that the poster violated the U.S. Constitution.“She said my poster is an issue of separation of church and state,” Ms. Shannon told me. “She said the poster had to come down because it might offend kids from other religions or those who do not have a religion.”
The story doesn’t end there. Texas has a “Merry Christmas” law which protects references to Christianity in Christmas decor and a state official became involved.
Starnes followed up with this report:
Texas attorney general drops a great big Yuletide truth bomb on school districtThe incident proves that public school tolerance can only be achieved by being intolerant towards Christians.But it turns out the principal may have inadvertently broken the 2013 “Merry Christmas” law. That law stipulates no school official in Texas can silence a Biblical reference to Christmas.“I am proud to have voted for the Merry Christmas law in 2013, when I was a member of the legislature,” Paxton said. “We passed that law precisely because of this type of discrimination against people of faith.”Paxton minced no words in describing what happened in that hallway at Patterson Middle School.“This is an attack on religious liberty and a violation of the First Amendment and state law,” he said. “I am calling on the school board of the Killeen ISD to immediately reverse their unlawful decision.”
You want another reason why Trump won? There you go.
Merry Christmas!
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