Wake County school choirs barred from performing at nativity event

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Another salvo in the War on Christmas.

Education December 13, 2016 10:38 AM

Wake County school choirs barred from performing at nativity event

By T. Keung Hui
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T. Keung Hui: 919-829-4534, @nckhui

APEX — The Wake County school system barred several school choirs from performing at this year’s Apex Christmas Nativity Celebration following a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The Wisconsin-based foundation argued that it was unconstitutional for the school choirs to perform at the annual nativity celebration sponsored by the Church of Latter-day Saints in Apex. Wake school officials said they acted after the foundation forwarded a YouTube video in which a church official makes statements such as how the event “represents a wonderful opportunity for you to bear testimony of Christ to your friends.”

“The advice of Tharrington Smith (the district’s attorney) is that it put the district in the position of potentially endorsing a religious viewpoint,” Tim Simmons, a Wake schools spokesman, said in an interview Tuesday.

[dhol82]

1. Actually, as an atheist, I am saddened by this

I love Christmas carols and would miss hearing them.
I think that all religions should be honored and their festivals be respected.

[Laffy Kat]

3. No one is keeping you from enjoying Christmas music.

There is a Constitution in this country that guarantees the Separation of Church and State. Enjoy your carols all you want, but not on my dime.

[dhol82]

4. Enjoy your shriveled heart.

[Laffy Kat]

5. I enjoy Christmas carols, too.

My heart is full enough to love my country and all the people who died protecting our values and laws. We live in a nation where Christmas music is allowed because of that Constitution. It goes both ways. You want to protect everyone's right to practice any religion they chose? Protect the Constitution.

[dhol82]

6. Ok

[Chipper Chat]

2. Billo will be all over this.

'I don't know what that means"