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  • Officials ask for word 'Christmas' to be removed from NH town tradition

    12/01/2015 1:23:54 PM PST · by icwhatudo · 41 replies
    FOX25 ^ | Nov 30 2015 | Kathryn Burcham
    A New Hampshire veteran is upset after school officials asked him to remove the word "Christmas" from an annual town tradition. John Fletcher, the commander of the American Legion in Marlborough, New Hampshire, wrote an editorial in the local paper after he said the superintendent barred him from promoting the event to students unless he changed the name of the event. "I was very upset, I really was," Fletcher said. "If it's not a school sponsored activity, I don't understand why 'Christmas' had to come out of 'Christmas Tree'." Fletcher, who also raises money to buy gifts for children who...
  • Episcopal parish breaking from US church Group relocating in Marlborough

    10/27/2007 2:05:59 PM PDT · by Huber · 3 replies · 45+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | October 25, 2007 | By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff
    A conservative Episcopal parish in Marlborough is bolting the denomination, in the latest indication that even in liberal Massachusetts the Episcopal Church is losing congregations over its support for gay rights. Holy Trinity Church in Marlborough is leaving behind its building, renting space in a nearby Methodist church, and affiliating with the Anglican Mission in the Americas, which is overseen by the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. The small Marlborough congregation, with about 70 active members, is following a national trend in which conservative Episcopal congregations are leaving the Episcopal Church USA to affiliate with theologically like-minded Anglican provinces in Africa....