Pat, where you are wrong is that minorities have more rights than everyone else.
Pat Tucker - 9 years ago
It should only be done by church owned schools, not publicly funded schools. It is not right that school is essentially only celebrating Christian holidays. Not all students at any public school are Christians nor are their families. To only give holidays for only Christian holidays is not right. Our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and that mean freedom FROM it too. Christian holidays are not universally celebrated nor are holidays from any one religion. Not one religious holiday is an American National Holiday. Christmas, Losar, Hanukah, Diwali, Ramadan and so on are NOT national holidays nor is any one of them observed by ALL students & staff. Have the usual National Holidays (for example Thanksgiving is one), winter break (New Year's Day is a National Holiday) and a spring break. Easter falls on a Sunday, so it does not need to be scheduled. In addition to that allow students & staff to have X number of excused absences for the religious holidays they chose to have off. These holidays can be selected at the start of the year so teachers/family can plan accordingly. Religion, yours or mine, have no place in public schools. If your religion & it's holidays are that important to you, send you kids to a religious school.
Gay is not a religion, people of all religions are gay. You seem to be forgetting American culture is based on freedom of religion and not on any one religion. Being an atheist is the same thing as being a Catholic or Sikh, it is just a personal philosophy and certain holidays go along with each one. A Jew has as much right to celebrate Yom Kippur as a Christian has to celebrate Good Friday but which one gets the day off??? Minority groups have the same rights as everyone else in this country.
BangStick - 9 years ago
Cowering to extreme minority groups like atheists and gays and destroying long standing American Culture and Tradition in the name of political correctness needs to stop!
Gwen - 9 years ago
Naming a holiday isn't any different than naming the days of the week. It just signifies what the day is, it not advocathing.
Pat, where you are wrong is that minorities have more rights than everyone else.
It should only be done by church owned schools, not publicly funded schools. It is not right that school is essentially only celebrating Christian holidays. Not all students at any public school are Christians nor are their families. To only give holidays for only Christian holidays is not right. Our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and that mean freedom FROM it too. Christian holidays are not universally celebrated nor are holidays from any one religion. Not one religious holiday is an American National Holiday. Christmas, Losar, Hanukah, Diwali, Ramadan and so on are NOT national holidays nor is any one of them observed by ALL students & staff. Have the usual National Holidays (for example Thanksgiving is one), winter break (New Year's Day is a National Holiday) and a spring break. Easter falls on a Sunday, so it does not need to be scheduled. In addition to that allow students & staff to have X number of excused absences for the religious holidays they chose to have off. These holidays can be selected at the start of the year so teachers/family can plan accordingly. Religion, yours or mine, have no place in public schools. If your religion & it's holidays are that important to you, send you kids to a religious school.
Gay is not a religion, people of all religions are gay. You seem to be forgetting American culture is based on freedom of religion and not on any one religion. Being an atheist is the same thing as being a Catholic or Sikh, it is just a personal philosophy and certain holidays go along with each one. A Jew has as much right to celebrate Yom Kippur as a Christian has to celebrate Good Friday but which one gets the day off??? Minority groups have the same rights as everyone else in this country.
Cowering to extreme minority groups like atheists and gays and destroying long standing American Culture and Tradition in the name of political correctness needs to stop!
Naming a holiday isn't any different than naming the days of the week. It just signifies what the day is, it not advocathing.