Friday, December 6, 2013
Celebrating the Sarah Palin tradition of making tinsel covered mountains out of culturally sensitive molehills.
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| Trig gets trotted out for a Christmas photo op. |
Is there any doubt it's imperative to protect the heart of Christmas? Take a look at this article about an elementary school in Texas banning Christmas trees and the colors red and green from a “winter” party. Just like I write about it “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” every day we see stories like this one, and we need to stiffen our spines, say “enough is enough,” and hold on to REAL hope, America! The real hope that IS the message of Christmas. We can remember and capture that spirit of true hope during this holiday season and commit to live it out every single day. I promise you, it works!
Yes the best way to protect freedom in this country is to marginalize and ostracize those who do not celebrate the Christmas, nor share the same faith, as the REAL Americans.
Of course this story was reported by Palin's pet Fox News reporter, and fellow Christmas Commando, Todd Starnes, who overreacted as if children were having their toys literally ripped from their hands:
An elementary school in Frisco, Texas is believed to be the first in the state to violate “The Merry Christmas Law” after they banned Christmas trees and the colors red & green from an upcoming “winter” party. (The "Merry Christmas Law" is the bill signed into law by Rick Perry in June which, despite the 1st Amendment, allows Texas schools to say Merry Christmas, and display holiday decorations representing any religion. Can hardly wait until the Islamic community tries to get their local public school to decorate for Ramadan. THEN we'll see how inclusive this law really is.)
Boys and girls who attend the Nichols Elementary School “Winter Party” will not be able to make any reference to Christmas or any other religious holiday. Christmas trees are also banned – along with the colors red and green.
It should be noted that this party is being put on by the their local PTA and the guidelines are not coming from the school district. It should also be noted that each school and PTA are allowed to make their own rules for their parties.
Kind of sounds like that "freedom" thing Palin is always going on about, doesn't it?
Down toward the bottom of the page Starnes does manage to let the Principal of the school explain the thinking behind the guidelines:
“She [the principal] said they didn’t want to offend any families and since each family donates money they feel this is the best policy."
So the PTA, and the principal, are trying to be inclusive, and make everybody, despite their cultural or religious background, feel comfortable.
But hey, Fox News has a War on Christmas to pimp, and Sarah Palin has books to sell, so fuck them right?
Starnes style of "journalism" has made at least one school in Georgia feel terrorized by his harassment and histrionic misreporting of "facts" about their school:
A school district in Georgia blasted Fox News on Tuesday and said that they had been “terrorized” after one of the network’s radio hosts falsely reported that Christmas cards had been “confiscated.”
In a Tuesday report, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes turned his daily outrage to allegations that students at Brooklet Elementary School had returned from the Thanksgiving holiday to find that the school’s administration had decided to “confiscate the Christmas cards” that teachers had posted outside classrooms.
Starnes branded the schools’ actions as “Christmas card censorship.”
Brooklet Principal Marlin Baker told WSAV that the “censorship” charge was just not true and that Starnes didn’t bother checking the facts before publishing his report.
“The decision to move the poster had nothing, absolutely nothing, at all to do with any type of religious conversation that is going on in the county,” Martin explained.
The principal said that the Christmas card poster had been moved to a faculty work room in order to accommodate the privacy request of one teacher.
And now the school has been flooded with angry calls and emails because of the misreporting.
Gee no wonder Palin likes him so much.
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