Monday, November 24, 2014

Why isn't Christmas on the Brevard County, Fl School District calendar?


I saw the controversy a week or two ago wherein some Muslims complained that Christmas was listed on some school board's annual calendar and they wanted their holidays added. So I went and checked our local school board's calendar and Christmas isn't there either - and hasn't been for years, or so I'm told.
Are you telling me we can't even acknowledge our official state and federal holidays anymore? Are you guys okay with that?

Oklahoma was the last state to make Christmas an official state holiday in 1907. Of course, Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until the late 1950s but as territories they had already made Christmas an official holiday even before 1907. Congress made Christmas an official federal holiday in 1870.
For my entire 12 years of public education up through 1976 we were always out of school for the "Christmas Holiday," not a winter break or a "holiday for all."

There really is something wrong with the PC belief that we have to scrub our calendars, offices and government institutions of all references to our state and federal "Christmas Holiday" in order to be inclusive...isn't that pretty exclusive and discriminatory of Christians as well as our American history, traditions, heritage and culture. If "being inclusive" means denying who and what we are then I want no part of it.

And including Christmas would not mean we have to include religious holidays from other religions and Associate Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story told us why in 1833:

§  988.    Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it [1st Amendment], now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as it is not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.   An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

§  991.    The real object of the [1st Amendment] amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. 
Stop the lies and give us back our country!

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