Thanksgiving Unconstitutional
Maryland school curriculum director / spokesmoron Charles Ridgell describes his state’s policy of a religion-free Thanksgiving as “teach[-ing] about Thanksgiving from a purely historical perspective, not from a religious perspective.” Apparently, in this genius’s mind, teaching actual facts about the Puritans or a holiday which our first President officially designated as a “day of public[k] thanksgiving and prayer” is not considered an “historical” perspective. History is whatever our politically correct textbooks say it is, not an account of, y’known, what actually happened or anything. [No, I am not going to re-start a debate over whether the word "historical" should be preceded by a or an, though I have a strong suspicion some commenter might.]
What I want to know is whether Mr. Ridgell has the stones to stand up and say what he really thinks, which is teaching history in public[k] schools violates the constitutional separation of church and state. If so, perhaps he and his cronies at the ACLU can explain why the Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer wasn’t canceled upon ratification of the We Hate Religion Amendment, a mere two years after it was proclaimed.
November 27th, 2004 at 1:02 am
Schools Allow Students to Thank Everybody, Except God
Thus continues the relentless march of academia’s humanist crusade of revisionist history … Check out XRLQ’s fine post on the expunging of religious references from Thanksgiving in Maryland public schools….
November 27th, 2004 at 1:07 am
Maryland Schools Banish God From Thanksgiving
Thus continues the relentless march of academia’s humanist crusade of revisionist history … Check out XRLQ’s fine post on the expunging of religious references from Thanksgiving in Maryland public schools….
November 27th, 2004 at 3:05 pm
This is another reason why I am moving the hell out of this state. If the country keeps going like Maryland and New York, there will not be any place left to run.
December 3rd, 2004 at 11:36 pm
Sounds like Thomas Jefferson’s Bible, or Playboy without the pictures of naked women.