WizBang – by Warner Todd Huston
A school in South Carolina has been forced to cancel its annual toy collection drive for the charity Operation Christmas Child by atheists who claim that the event is “religious” and therefore should not be allowed.
For the past three years East Point Academy in West Columbia, S.C., has been participating in the toy drive for needy children. But this year the school has had to cancel their participation because an atheist group sent a letter to the school threatening to sue over the false “separation of church and state” issue.
School principal, Renee Mathews, is flabbergasted by the absurd letter saying that the only “religious” part of the toy drive is the word “Christmas” in its title. Otherwise there is not a single mention of religion in anything concerning the event. It’s just a toy drive for needy kids.
“There’s no religious literature tied with it,” Mathews told WTSP News. “There’s no speakers who come. There’s no religious affiliation at all.”
But this isn’t good enough for the atheists. The group the American Humanist Association insists that it is all caught up with religion and must be ended because, they say, it is unconstitutional.
“The letter was very explicit that there would be litigation against us if we did not stop,” said principal Mathews.
Principal Mathews says she never got a single complaint about the toy drive in the three years they’ve participated in the Operation Christmas Child charity.
The atheist group, however, says that the charity is meant to “induce impoverished children to convert to Christianity” and it violates the Constitution for a public school to get involved with the group.
So, what are we seeing here? We are seeing that atheists hate kids, I suppose.
Posted by Warner Todd Huston on November 22, 2013.
Filed under Big government, Christianity, Christmas, Constitutional Issues, corruption, Culture,Culture Of Corruption, Democrats, Education, Leftist Tolerance, Liberals, Religion, Religious Liberty.
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’sBigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com,RightPundits.com, StoptheACLU.com, Human Events Magazine, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events.He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book“Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions, EMAIL Warner Todd Huston: igcolonel .at. hotmail.com“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.” –Samuel Johnson
Religious? Here is religious, any kind of stopping of any kind of Christmas time cheer and good deed, or any kind of hurting a little kids Christmas time fun, gets the shit kicked out of them. That’s religious……
you notice how they never complain about the other God given things, like air and water.
Why don’t they file a complaint against one of the world’s largest menorahs that is being installed on the WH lawn this week?
Hey Greg, see if you can find an article on that and post it, would you?
If they think for one second Christmas is any longer religious these people are sadly mistaken. It is no longer the celebration of the birth of the child savior but rather the greed filled money grabbing people trampling holiday. How can they call it religious when it has gone so far from its original intent effectively the exact opposite in today’s society?
And Greg Bacon I ask myself this every year along with each and every other heeb celebration posted up on state owned land. Oh no we cant talk about what them heebs be doing or you are anti-whatever label they want to stick on you.