I swear, this conflict has raged for so long, on so many fronts, over so much time, I get out of bed and hear sleigh bells, sometimes....or Christmas carols....mostly Christmas carols.
Christmas carol initiative no joy to California
Californians apparently weren’t feeling the Christmas spirit during Merry Susan Hyatt’s five-month carol initiative signature collection effort.
The measure failed Friday when the final signature count turned out to be only half a percent of the required 433,971, according to the secretary of state’s office. In all, 2,176 signatures were collected in California between Nov. 2 and March 29.
Hyatt is a retired substitute teacher from Riverside who now lives in Redding. She announced her initiative drive in November, saying schools needed to provide children with the opportunity to listen to Christmas carols during the Christmas season.
Hyatt, who wouldn’t give her age, said it didn’t make sense to celebrate the birthday of Jesus without inviting him to the party, and she believed bringing Jesus back into the classroom was the only way to curb violence among children.
The initiative would have forced schools to provide children the opportunity to listen to or perform Christmas carols and would have subjected the schools to litigation if the rule wasn’t followed.
Force schools to inflict Christmas music on kids--who presumably couldn't go to a shopping mall or supermarket, or who were never exposed to any of those 24-hour a day Christmas carol radio formats? That's just cruel and unusual. I take note that the perpetrator of this Christmas-centered attack on the civil liberties of students who actually don't go to school to celebrate Christmas, but to learn, is allying with the local Tea Party--who, as Constitutional scholars, have no qualms about the separation clause*. But alas for them, too little too late--not enough signatures.
*(Yes,
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