This is starting to really piss me off…if this was my kids School, I would be down there causing a stink!!

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This PC crap is getting out of control. We're slowly not becoming America anymore.  I still stick to the slippery slop view.  It starts with one thing..then when that's allowed..it's easier and easier to keep going down that road…

We're there…and it's a shame to the kids. They are teaching them that they can't speak thier minds, or thing for themselves.  IT's really a shame.

Amurka's War on Christmas!!  Rabble rabble rabble!

1. There's nothing wrong with a publicly funded event not allowing religious icons.  Separation of church and state is a good thing.

2. The article's title is rather misleading.  The school didn't ban candy canes because they're a religious item.  The school simply stated it does not want religious iconography in it's fund-raising event.

3. Grouping candy canes in that category is kind of ridiculous, but there's much better candy out there to be concerned about.  Let me know when they ban 100 Grands from school and I'll be the first one outside in the picket line.

Richard, they are banning red and green wrapping paper.

It's getting out of control.  Why not allow ALL holiday item in there?  Why just ban them all…

To Many, Christmas is about more than a religious holiday. It's about family.  It's about Friends, it's about sharing the joy of the season with other people.

Why teach these kids that they aren't allowed to talk about what they believe in outside of the house???

As adults, we understand the whole separation.  But as kids, they don't understand that as well…and as they get older, they fall back to what they learned as kids.

We censor this from them now…as this generation will be one without any holiday spirit.

We're dumbing down our people.  We're straying away…far away…from what this country was founded on in fear of views of others. 

I agree that we should be mindful of other cultures, but in jeopardy of our own?

People come to America for what we offer, but then they get here and want to change it to what they had before they came. 

WHY?  This isn't their country…it's ours?  Why must we change to fit them?  If it was so good…why come here and change it??

I see it here.  MA is a very nanny state…people move to New Hampshire for the freedoms they still have.  But, as MA people move to NH, they are trying to change NH to be more like MA.  WHY??  Why move away from what you hate, just to make the new place like where you came?

I don't understand that concept.  I really don't.

It's a fucking fundraiser for a government program.

But the point is it's happening everywhere…

This is just an example.

It's the parents' fault.  One fundie freako gets upset about Kwanzaa being mentioned in a public school and government learns it can avoid a lot of nonsense by just putting a blanket ban on all religious observances.  No one is telling the kids they can't talk about the holidays.  People just don't want their tax dollars spent trying to fight every little religious battle that comes up…I sure as hell don't.  Who cares if the gift shop fundraiser won't allow candy canes or Christmas wrapping paper?  Tell your kid "That's life."  If someone runs a fundraiser, they can make their own rules.  If you want a Christmas-themed gift shop, start your own fundraiser.

I agree that we should be mindful of other cultures, but in jeopardy of our own?

People come to America for what we offer, but then they get here and want to change it to what they had before they came.

WHY?  This isn't their country…it's ours?  Why must we change to fit them?  If it was so good…why come here and change it??

Wow.  Just…wow.  What makes this your country?  You happened to be born within a certain set of GPS coordinates?  Big fuckin' deal.  You know who was here before you?  They weren't Christian, I can tell you that much.  And guess what…even they migrated here from the other side of the globe.

Who do you think is coming here and trying to change things?  And what do you think they're trying to change?  Our culture is, and will always be, a melting pot of other cultures.