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To: rich4eagle who wrote (209121)	12/12/2001 2:41:20 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If an employee said "Happy Ramadon" That would probably be ok for Simms. "Merry Christmas" means far more than deference to christianity. For many it simply means, Have a great day. For others, Have a wonderful holiday, for others, may your life be full of joy during this time of year. Silencing speech is the hallmark of a closed mind and closed way of thinking. The anti-free speech politically correct crowd simply wants to force their morality on the rest of us. How many people have you personally met who've told you they were offended by someone saying "Merry Christmas"? Puleeeze, get a grip and worry about something valid....

To: rich4eagle who wrote (209121)	12/12/2001 3:38:18 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001 Humbug! Schools Censor Christmas The intolerant communistic thought police who run America's government schools are censoring Christmas at an even more alarming rate than usual this year. Consider the following: The county school board in Covington, Ga., censored the word "Christmas" from the school calendar after the fanatically anti-religious group that calls itself American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue, sue, sue. Two middle-school students in Rochester, Minn., were punished for - the horror, the horror - wearing red and green scarves in a Christmas skit and for concluding, "We hope you all have a merry Christmas." New York City's notoriously rotten government schools have banned Nativity scenes but allow the display of the Jewish menorah and the Muslim star and crescent. The school superintendent in Silverton, Ore., demonstrated anti-religious bigotry by allowing secular decorations but forcing students to remove all religious holiday decorations from their lockers. An educrat in Frederick County, Md., banned employees from handing out Christmas cards in the school because cards with a Christian message (but not a non-Christian message!) supposedly "may not be a legally protected right on a public school campus." A fourth-grader in Ephrata, Pa., was kept from handing out religious Christmas cards to classmates. The P.C. patrol told two ninth-graders in Plymouth, Mass., that they could not make Christmas cards saying "Merry Christmas" or depicting a Nativity scene. A principal in Plymouth, Ill., warned a teacher not to read a book about Christmas to her second-grade pupils - even though the book was in the school's library. (What will the leftist American Library Association have to say about this one?) Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville, Va., organization that provides legal representation in cases involving religious discrimination, cited these examples among at least 50 complaints it has received so far this Christmas season. "We're getting besieged," Rutherford President John Whitehead says in today's Washington Times. And educrats continue to wonder why parents clamor for school choice and turn to home schooling and private schools.