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Christmas as a Trojan Horse Email Print

The Christmas season is approaching, which means that those damned atheists are plotting to deny children their god-given right to tell their classmates about the birthday of Our Lord and Savior. And your kids' teacher might be one of them. But people are fighting back, wouldn't you know.

Liberty Counsel, a legal defense firm associated with Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Christian Educators Association International have announced they're going to "stop the Grinch from stealing Christmas." Liberty Counsel has produced a "Christmas Memo" on Christians' constitutional rights regarding the holiday, which you can download as a PDF here. It outlines the legalities of displays on public property and in schools. The avowed subject of the Memo is Christmas, but it goes beyond nativity scenes and "Silent Night." Much of the Memo outlines court-tested methods of introducing religious subjects--and taking students to churches--throughout the school year.

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