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A sad postscript on Christmas from the York School District in South Carolina.
Hunter Street Elementary School hosted a door decorating contest for the holidays.
One teacher adorned her door with a Nativity scene along with the following words: “For Unto Us a Savior Is Born.”
Another teacher also decorated her classroom door with a scene depicting the birth of Christ.
A concerned citizen complained to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an anti-Christian hate group based in Wisconsin.
“To protect students’ First Amendment rights, the district must ensure this display is removed, as well as any other religious displays it becomes aware of in its schools,” FFRF’s Charlotte R. Gude stated in a letter to the district. “The district cannot allow promotion of religion on the walls of its schools.”
The atheists said the decorations violated the law and created a divisive spirit in the classroom.
“By using the door-decorating contest as a means to push her religion, one teacher turned a fun event into a proselytizing environment that signaled Christian students were favored over all others,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said. “Young and impressionable elementary school students are a captive audience whose right to be free from religious indoctrination in the public school setting must be scrupulously honored.”
Two days later the school district ordered the teachers to remove their door decorations. We’re not sure what’s worse – cowardly educators or godless heathens.
The only divisive spirit in York, South Carolina is the atheist who got triggered by the newborn King and the school district should’ve slammed the door in their face.