THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016
Grade School Scrubed All References To Christianity In “Charlie Brown Christmas” Performance
Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo remembers last year when the Daily Caller reported that night’s theatrical performance of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at W.R. Castle Elementary School in rural Johnson County, Kentucky would be bereft of its heart and soul because a single whiner had scared school district officials into censoring all references to religion.
The main scene which would be deleted involved Linus van Pelt reciting a handful of verses from the New Testament’s Gospel of Luke to explain to Charlie Brown “what Christmas is all about.”
Castle Elementary principal Jeff Cochran — whose “principal’s message page says “Insert text here!” — had announced that anything related to Christianity will be completely scrubbed from the play, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Johnson County school district superintendent Thomas Salyer said he had concluded that both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals flatly forbid any public school student from uttering Linus’s seven Bible verses. [READ MORE HERE]
The Blower wonders if Cochran and Salyer would have had any problem with our copy of CHARLIE BRO KWANZAA DIRECTOR’S CUT. You might find it hard to believe, but some people actually find this video somewhat offensive.
