War on Christmas Is a War on American Values
By: Todd Starnes
It’s good to see Americans standing up for American values like the 1st amendment and religious liberty 🗽 as well as for our kids. A win for the good people.
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The war on Christmas is really a war on the foundation of our nation – the belief that we are one nation under God.
And the effort by leftists to silence the Reason for the Season is no trivial matter, as I wrote in my new book, deleted [ph]
The latest battle front in the war on Christmas is South Sutter Charter School in northern California.
Brooklyn Benzel, a 13-year-old eighth grader, was told she could not perform an instrumental version of “Joy to the World” because the song is too religious.
“The education specialist said the song might be deemed inappropriate because it might be too religious,” Julianne Benzel said deleted [ph]
Mrs. Benzel, who is running for Congress, initially dismissed the teacher’s concerns, but the following day she received an email that confirmed the song had been banned.
“They told me the song was too religious to be submitted,” she said. “They told me words like savior and heaven might be crossing the line.”
Yes, good readers, it seems as though the school feared words like Lord and Savior and Heaven might deleted [ph]
So the school suggested that Brooklyn consider playing a more secular holiday tune like deleted Bells.”
“Her justification was that it was more culturally appropriate,” Mrs. Benzel said.
Now, at that point the Benzel family had a choice – they could either accept the charter school’s censorship or they could fight back.
Mrs. Benzel decided to go to war.
“There’s no way I’m going to relent,” she said. “I could have easily submitted a new song, but the next thing you know the First Amendment is dead.”
Pacific Justice Institute, a law firm that specializes in religious liberty cases, threatened to get involved at the request of Brooklyn’s family – and in a matter of moments – the charter school reversed its decision.
“Thank God for Pacific Justice Institute,” Mrs. Benzel said. “It’s a sad day when you have to invoke them but that’s why I’m so grateful for them.
So here’s the moral of the story: when a public or charter school tries to silence Christian boys and girls, it is imperative that moms and dads rise up and jingle somebody’s bells.
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We are under God? You and me, we are under God, Heartland American? Okay, let's test your statement. Under God I adjure you to tell me it is your expressed opinion that a satanist should be allowed to sing a 'hallowed' song during this program> Yes or No?
'Back in the day' of NewsVine, there was a satanist, who used to try to vex me with satanic 'verses' and antics and I thought it wrong—until I read this and on my car radio daily i hear show host Jay Sekulow (of American Center for Law and Justice fame and Donald Trump's current lawyer) breathlessly beating the tambourines of cultural Christmas as a battle cry.
I can't recall that former NewVine individual's handle. I know some of our "good readers" know of whom I write. That one was tenacious about it, too.
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We aren't told the context of why the student would be performing in the first place, so it's hard to know with certainty what would be appropriate.
In very general terms, though, there isn't usually a reason to censor a student. It's not the state speaking; it's the student speaking. It's her culture; and she's part of the larger culture; so it's hard to see how it would be culturally inappropriate. But again, we lack context.
What exactly are American values? I have the same problem with Texan values. \
Are they the values of former slaves? Are the values of Oriental Americans? Are they the values of Muslim Americans?
Seems to me that whenever someone says American values, they mean Southern Baptist,western european values which hardly emcompases all of america.