It’s alright to celebrate homosexuality, publicly support perversion, and publish what many Christians consider blasphemy, but we sure don’t want to offend any Muslims now, do we? No sir, we’re an open and diverse nation, and we’ll bow down to any kind of perversion or multiculturalism (as long as it isn’t some old dead white guy religion like Christianity). This morning’s example comes from Chicago….
So long, Halloween parade. Farewell, Santa’s gift shop.
The holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oak Lawn schools this year after complaints that the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students.Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122’s five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said.
Parents expect that the announcement is going to add to the tension that has been building since officials agreed earlier this month to change the lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate Muslim students. News that Jell-O was struck from the menu caused such a stir that officials have agreed to bring it back. Gelatin is often made with tissue or bones of pigs or other animals.
Seems like it’s starting early this year, doesn’t it? In the interest of not offending anyone, they show a remarkable willingness to toss out their own culture, their own traditions, and invent something meaningless to everyone.
..Following the example of Lieb Elementary School, Columbus Manor School will exchange the annual Halloween parade for a fall festival next month. The holiday gift bazaars at both schools also will remain, but they’ll likely be moved to the PTA-sponsored after-school winter festival. And Santa’s annual visit probably will be on a Saturday.
I’d like to ask, what ever happened to the idea of coming to America to be Americans? Have we polluted our own culture to the point that it’s no longer worth promoting or defending? Is it no longer worth sharing? Is it so cheapened now that we can no longer expect others to want to share it? That’s pretty pathetic, if it’s true. And do you think it’s only confined to big cities, like Chicago, San Francisco,and Seattle? How about this report, about a school in the small town of Nyssa, Oregon…
..The “Five Pillars” of Islam – charity, fasting, prayer, belief and pilgrimage – are being taught to public school students in Nyssa, Ore., under the guise of world history, the school has confirmed to WND, even though a parent raised a complaint about the same teachings a year ago.
In a letter to parents following the concerns that were raised at that point, Supt. Don Grotting and other school officials told parents that the text called “Journey Across Time” features a chapter on “Islamic Civilizations.”
As part of that, “class activities have included guest speakers (including an American soldier serving in Iraq and a practicing Muslim woman who is an American citizen living in Mountain Home) who talked about geography, dress, climate, religion, economy and culture and student skits, in which students prepare and perform three- to five-minute skits about the tenets of Islam belief: charity, fasting, prayer, belief, and pilgrimage.”
I’ll guarantee that the students do not get a similarly thorough treatment of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or even what American Patriotism is about.
Perhaps the last 20 years of putting multiculturalism ahead of American culture has so diluted the culture, no one remembers why it was worth fighting for? We’ve bent over backward trying to convince ourselves that “all nations and cultures are equal”, but we’ve forgotten why this one we’re letting slip away is worthy of protecting and being proud of. The result of trying to change a red white and blue culture for some rainbow dream culture is turning out to be that muddy blech color you get when all your watercolors run together… hardly worth showing to anyone or hanging on the wall, in my humble opinion.
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