Monday, December 6, 2010

Political correctness at Christmas

As I was sitting at my granddaughter's Christmas program at her school yesterday, I realized that public schools don't do stuff like that anymore. When I was growing up, we always had some sort of Christmas play or something to dread being in, unless you were one of the future drama class candidates. They weren't secular, either. There was Mary and Joseph, Baby Jesus, and the 3 Wise Men. We had commercial Christmas songs and religious songs. I guess now one of two things has happened to end public school Christmas programs. Either someone complained about the Christian religious aspect of them or the state Department of Education decided they couldn't please all of the people all of the time. We need to get away from this "everyone is entitled" attitude and realized that somewhere someone is always going to bitch about something. It's just human nature. We've gone from majority rule to minority control. This country was founded by Christians intent on stopping religious persecution and allowing religious freedom for all. This means anyone can practice whatever religion they desire. This doesn't mean they can whine about a Christian-themed traditional school program to the point that it gets canceled.