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If I had children still in school and objected to the invasion of public schools with propaganda, I would send a note to school with my children that they are to be exempted from participation in this exercise. And if the school gave me any flack, I'd just keep them home that day. Where is the requirement that our children need to be 'inspired' by socialism and guilt trips that is vested in the ideology of Barack Obama?

The earliest document commemorating this feast comes from the sixth century. St. Romanus, the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn (Card. Pitra, "Hymnogr. Graeca", Paris, 1876, 199) which is a poetical sketch of the apocryphal Gospel of St. James. St. Romanus was a native of Emesa in Syria, deacon of Berytus and later on at the Blachernae church in Constantinople, and composed his hymns between 536-556 (P. Maas in "Byzant. Zeitschrift", 1906). The feast may have originated somewhere in Syria or Palestine in the beginning of the sixth century, when after the Council of...