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Give thanks to anyone or anything—just not “God”

Meanwhile over at Fox News Channel’s web site, in their “Tongue-Tied” section, they make a list of several hideous, mindless, liberal-led prohibitions against the utterence of the evil word “God” (though they don’t identify them as “liberal-led”—it’s me who clears that up for you all). 

It starts with this one:

Godless in N.J., Goddess in Oregon
A fifth-grader in New Jersey had the word “God” removed from a Thanksgiving poem she authored before it was hung up at school because school officials were fearful of violating rules about religion in the classroom, reports the Newark Star-Ledger.

Kaeley Hay, 10, penned the poem for an assignment at Lincoln-Franklin Elementary School in Garwood. The poem read:

“Leaves are falling out of the air, Piles of leaves everywhere/

Scarecrows standing high up with the corn, Farmers harvest in the early morn/

Pilgrims thank God for what they were given, Everybody say … happy Thanksgiving!”

Kaeley’s classmates liked the work so much they voted to display it in big black letters on the hallway bulletin board just in time for parent-teacher night. But when posting it, someone at the school omitted the word “God.”

Only after Kaeley’s mother complained and school officials consulted with their lawyers was the poem restored to its original state. Even the folks at Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the school’s initial editing was an overreaction.

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