You have GOT to be kidding me!!!

[DerickM 1]

Chicago Area Schools Ban Santa, Halloween, and Jell-O for Allah

And people wonder why I hate moonbats

[ingyrob 1]

We have stuff like that in the UK. One City wanted Christmas to be called Winterval.

One scholl is wanting to ban Halloween because it is offensive to Devout Christians.

What next?

[ingyrob 1]

I can spell school really!

[DerickM 1]

and you guys invented the language...*tsk*

[ingyrob 1]

The English on this mainly US site is far superior to that I see on the U K sites, however we must take into account that we all make typing errors.

[DerickM 1]

yeah I know, I was being smurmastic

[ingyrob 1]

Sorry! Just had sense of humour failure, I usually know when someone is smurarastic

[DerickM 1]

british slang for 'smartass'

[ingyrob 1]

Sorry Jack there is no such word.

Derek You give me credit for being smarter than I am. I like your sense of humour though!

[Jim 0]

Derick,

I thought you meant a version of "smarmy" (unctuously flattering) with you slippery, oily tongue.:whoo::clap2:

It was good for a laugh and got many of us, or maybe only some of us looking in our dictionaries. That is a good thing.

[green 6]

We have stuff like that in the UK. One City wanted Christmas to be called Winterval.

One scholl is wanting to ban Halloween because it is offensive to Devout Christians.

What next?

The forces of Politickal Korrectness have been active in Ontario, Canada for some years now. We certainly are a multi-cultural society but it is also true that many of the original and still dominant folkways of our culture do involve Christian-based activities: Christmas and Easter are and have always been big celebrations in both Canadian and American culture. They are also holidays which have long since joined the category of cultural folkways since many, if not most people choose to Celebrate these paid breaks from work in an entirely secular fashion; they do this by eating well, decorating trees, swapping presents, and eating chocolate eggs and rabbits. As you can see, these two holidays have come to be secular holidays and devout Christians are none too happy about that.

Of course these holidays were originally pagan holidays and had been co-opted by that new cult, Christianity, as it was seeking to expand and draw in new converts. But none of this matters anymore. In the paranoid, politikally korrect state which Ontario, Canada has become the state will resort to goofiest of measures to avoid mentioning such words as Christmastime or Christmas holidays. School teachers always suffer the most during these annual games of it's not Christmas and it's not Easter.

[ingyrob 1]

We find that officials who decide that we should no longer Celebrate our traditions be they pagan, christian or secular, do so because they do not want to upset people who have other religions, but the people who have other religions do not really mind us celebrating. In fact they encourage us to celebrate. For centuries Britain has had religious tolerance, that is one of the great things about living here, and I should think Canada as well.

I can well understand about PC (PK in Canada) as my Canadian friend always sends a "Happy Holidays" card at a certain time in the year which shall remain nameless.