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Schools are distorting Thanksgiving

I don’t care what your religious faith is nor what your degree of faith is—but promoting “godlessness” in school or anywhere is just so wrong on so many levels. 

Linda Chavez writes an excellent short editorial at TownHall.com.

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, a time to reflect on the many blessings bestowed on this great nation while enjoying the company of family and friends. It’s hard to imagine that anyone could consider the celebration controversial or feel the need to censor Thanksgiving discussions among schoolchildren. But when it comes to political correctness, no holiday is safe. Having turned Christmas and Hanukkah into amorphous winter festivals, now some school districts want to rob Thanksgiving of its historical roots. Apparently some school officials worry that the religious overtones of Thanksgiving might represent a chink in the wall secularists insist separates church and state, so they proscribe any mention of Who it is the nation thanks on this day.

In Maryland, the Capital News Service recently reported, “students are free to thank anyone they want while learning about the 17th-century celebration of Thanksgiving—as long as it isn’t God.”

George Washington had no such qualms when he proclaimed the first day of thanksgiving in 1789: “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

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