Anti-Christian Hostility Driving 'War on Christmas,' Attorney Says

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[Esther Ruth]

Anti-Christian Hostility Driving 'War on Christmas,' Attorney Says

By Jim Brown December 7, 2005

(AgapePress) - A Christian attorney says recent acts of censorship indicate Christmas is under attack in public schools across the United States.

One Ohio high school principal, for example, recently renamed the school's Christmas tree and concert a "holiday tree" and a "holiday concert." Similarly, a Missouri school superintendent informed fine arts teachers in his district that an upcoming winter assembly may not include "direct references to Christmas or the birth of Jesus," and a Wisconsin school district has banned all Christian Christmas songs.

Such phenomena are occurring not only in primary and secondary public schools, but also at the college level. Controversy recently erupted at Auburn University in Texas when the student government association re-dubbed its Christmas tree a "holiday tree."

Steve Crampton Steve Crampton, chief counsel with the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, takes issue with those who argue there is no "war against Christmas" going on. "They are flat wrong," he says, "and to miss what is happening in our public schools and in the public square -- even in our so-called places of public accommodation, such as the department stores during the Christmas season -- is to be completely blind to the culture war that's raging around us."

The hostility against Christianity that Crampton asserts has "been under the surface for years" has finally boiled over, he contends, and secularists are making no bones about their attempts to blot out all religious meaning associated with the holiday. He feels such acts of censorship indicate that public school officials have run amok with hypocrisy.

"When a public entity such as these high schools takes the extreme position that we can't even use the name 'Christmas,' let alone 'Jesus Christ,' how else can you describe it other than censorship?" the pro-family attorney asks. He says these public education officials' attempt to strip every vestige of Christian faith from the holiday represents "a running away, not only from our own history and tradition but from the very principles of tolerance that they are espousing on the other side of their mouth."

Crampton says the rising incidence of Christmas censorship is an indication that the culture war continues to rage (See related commentary). He suggests that anyone who denies this fact is either blind to an ever-mounting body of evidence or has been lulled into a false sense of complacency.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

[Esther Ruth]

I think this is now happening everywhere. We hear about it constantly, stories from every town, of children being told not to use the name of Jesus Christ when writing a book report on what Christmas means to them and such...

[43north]

Christianity is a very tolerant religion. We don't behead those who are not of our faith. These secularist maroons had better hope that the muzzies don't take over. They are not so enlightened as we...

[Prime Choice]

And guess who's leading the charge? Why, it's the very same depraved Leftists who consider the Boy Scouts to be a bigger threat to society than NAMBLA, of course!

[Jemian]

Auburn University in Texas

Auburn is in Alabama. And the furror over this utterly stupid move is such that in the future the tree will properly be named the Christmas Tree.

[Esther Ruth]

These secularist maroons had better hope that the muzzies don't take over.
***
I know many secular marrooons and they would be very happy to have the muslims take over. Anything is better than having to hear the name of Jesus to this generation. That alone tells you that there has JUST GOT TO BE something behind the name of JESUS CHRIST!!!!

Jesus ! Name above ALL Names!!!

[GloriaJane]

"ACLU Christmas"

[iThinkBig]

Find the nations on this earth with a majority of Christians and you'll also find the free nations on this earth. Find the nations that defend freedom for all to the death, give unending charitable donations to the rest of the world and you find America. Jesus said a house divided will fall. That is what is beginning to come of America, a divided house. What a shame. Those without the belief in the Almighty no longer have wisdom and fail to see the above mentioned obvious truth and peril.

[Viking2002]

There are two ways of ridding the public school systems of these pinkos:

1) Stack the school boards with normal human beings and make their lives a living Hell on Earth;

or,

2) fisticuffs. There are some people who simply need an ass-whoopin'.

[chrisg2001]

I've just spotted a powerful enemy acting in the war on christmas. Yes, the most powerful person in the world is actively fighting against Christmas!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601900.html


And his wife:
"Laura Bush , ducking into the Georgetown Pottery Barn yesterday for barely five minutes, wearing a bright blue suit and wishing shoppers "Happy Holidays" in a very perky way"

!!! Its worse than we thought !!!!

[Esther Ruth]

Something different is going on here. It ain't about freedom of religion. We are doing very good with that. We have every and all kinds of whacked out systems of belief being respected all over the place to the point of lunacy. This is about the name of Jesus Christ. It is like the world is in the first stages of a tantrum and they will not tolerate hearing His name.

[fella]

Luke: 22: 17; And ye shall be hated of all men 'for my names sake.I never thought I would live to see the day, but it appears to be upon us.

[trek]

There are three simple reasons for the assault on Christianity in America today. These are, in order:

1. Gays
2. Gays
3. Gays

[Spirited]

Fruit of rebellion.

Phl 2:10 "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth"

[ConservativeChinese]

So much for freedom of religion.
The leftists only want the muzzies to have their "freedom to kill". And the kids are commiting a crime by saying "merry Christmas".
The leftists are making sure that only intolerant cults can exist in our society. Tolerant religions are not tolerated by the leftiests.

[swmobuffalo]

"Missouri superintendent"

Don't know if this is the same district or not but there was an assistant principal in SW Missouri that released a memo with the same wording and he was set straight pretty quickly. The local paper of course put as liberal a spin on the story as possible.

[Rudder]

Steve Crampton Steve Crampton

I just can't see why anyone would want to name their kid like this.

[Esther Ruth]

I don't know how that copied and pasted that way and duplicated his name, that is strange, but .....

The kingdom of this world;
is become
the kingdom of our Lord,
and of His Christ
and of His Christ

And He shall reign for ever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords

And he shall reign
And he shall reign
And he shall reign
He shall reign
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever
and lord of lords hallelujah hallelujah
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords
And he shall reign forever and ever

Forever and ever and ever and ever
(King of kings and lord of lords)

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah

[43north]

You left out:

1. Abortion
2. Abortion
3. Abortion

[DougJ]

That's even better than the "Stop the ACLU" graphic I saw. I'm copying that one and sending it to friends. Genius.