OK, I'm sick up and fed with educrats bending over backward to eradicate any hint of Christianity from our public schools.
Notice I didn't say "religion"; it's perfectly ok to display Jewish or Muslim or Kwaanza-ish symbols, donchaknow.
Was just watching a segment on FNC, they had on one of the lawyers from the Thomas More Center, which fights against religious discrimination, along with a client from NY who is suing the NYC dept of education, because they will not allow a Christian symbol, the creche, to be displayed in the 1200 schools, even though they allow a menorah and and islamic symbol for Ramadan.
They have allowed only Christmas trees to be displayed, but this is not a religious symbol. And they are trying to get away with this by saying that the menorah and the Ramadan symbol are NOT religious.
More of this opposition needs to catch on:
http://www.thomasmore.org/news.html?NewsID=261
ANN ARBOR, MI — With less than three weeks to go before Americans celebrate the national Christmas holiday, two prominent legal cases dealing with government policies that discriminate against Christmas religious displays during the holy season have each reached a critical stage. The Thomas More Law Center is fighting two separate cases, one in New York City and the other in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, over policies that outlaw the public display of the Christian Nativity while permitting the display of symbols of other religions.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center commented Thursday, “Christmas is under siege throughout our nation, and the cases in New York and Bay Harbor Islands demonstrate the kind of hostility and double standard being used by officials to deny Christians the right to publicly celebrate one of their holiest seasons.”
In New York City, Law Center attorney Robert Muise will present oral argument Monday, December 13th, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the Law Center’s case against the New York City Department of Education. The Law Center filed a federal lawsuit, challenging New York City’s policy that encourages and permits the display of the Jewish Menorah during Hanukkah and the Islamic star and crescent during Ramadan in the more than 1200 public schools in the City, but prohibits the similar display of the Christian Nativity during Christmas.
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