December 23, 2004
WAR
AGAINST CHRISTMAS 2004 COMPETITION
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[VI]
[VII]
[VIII]
[IX]
[X]
[XI]
[XII]
[XIII]
[XIV]
[XVI]
[XVII]
[XVIII]
[XIX]
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- See also: War
Against Christmas
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000
War Against Christmas 2004 Competition [XV]:
Then They Came For Santa
Several readers report the story
that a 7th grader at New Hampshire’s
Hampton Academy Junior High School was denied
admission to the school’s “Holiday Dance” because
he went wearing a Santa Claus costume:
“Principal
Fred Muscara said he told the boy he couldn’t get into
the dance because he was wearing the costume.
“‘It was a holiday party,’
said Muscara. [Send
him a Holiday greeting]
‘It was not a Christmas party. There is a separation of
church and state. We have a lot of students that go to
Hampton Academy Junior High that have different
religions. We have to be sensitive to that.’” [Boy
in a Santa suit asked to quit dance, by Patrick
Cronin, The Hampton Union, December 21
2004]
So “sensitive” does
Muscara feel compelled to be that even secular aspects
of the Christian tradition must be eradicated.
Interestingly, this item
was picked up by The Drudge Report—indication that
Big Foot Media is becoming aware of mounting
resistance to the War Against Christmas out there in
Americaland.
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