This war on Christmas is just another neoconservative distraction. It
is media driven. Related, I was contacted by a TV station reporter
fishing for negative comments on the Narnia movie. I told the reporter
that the movie was not an issue of the constitutional principle of
separation between
Richard is on to something here. The school play was
trying to hijack Silent Night and convert it into a
kind of easter bunny.
It is one thing for a public school to perform a
harmless little play about a cold and lonely christmas
tree. It is quite another thing for a school to
perform a play
Rick Duncan wrote:
Richard is on to something here. The school play was
trying to hijack Silent Night and convert it into a
kind of easter bunny.
Do you really think that was the intent here? Is that the intent when
churches perform the same play with their young children?
It is one
Title: Re: Silent Night controversy
Actually, Roth said that the greatest Amerixan Jew was Irving Berlin because he wrote both of the songs that transformed Christmas into being about snow and Easter into a holiday about dressing up! But, of course, Jews alone could not have made them
If schools are going to celebrate Christmas with seriously religious
songs such as Silent Night as well as secular celebratory songs (White
Christmas etc.), then they should celebrate the traditions of other
faiths with serious religious songs and secular celebratory songs. Part
of the problem
Actually that was me (Rita) who pointed out that
Chanuka is a very minor holiday in the Jewish
liturgical calendar. It is not a non-religious
holiday (the Chanuka story, from the Book of
Maccabbees in the Apocrypha, is certainly theistically
and religiously themed), it merely is not major
Well, I don't know if this counts as religion law...
A local teacher told her class of second graders the other day that
there is no Santa Claus. She retracted the assertion the next day,
after numerous parental complaints. I presume she has constitutional
cover to teach the truth, though
I have always assumed Santa Clause does exist; his name is really Tom
Delay, and for years he has given presents to good little corporations
and donors.
Richard Dougherty wrote:
Well, I don't know if this counts as religion law...
A local teacher told her class of second graders the other
I'm beginning to see why some my students' previous educational
experience with things such as the difference betweeen there and their
(or it's and its), learning how to manage time, being able to work with
numbers, is insufficient. Time must be made to deal with other topics.
Education law ought
I went to Houston ISD schools in the early 80s and we always sang both
Christmas and Hanukkah religious songs in elementary school holiday
concerts. Granted the Dreidel Song may not qualify as serious, but
there were also songs about lighting the menorah, which I think might
meet the serious
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