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The campus crusade for Christmas
Dec 5, 2005
by Mike S. Adams ( bio | archive | contact )
Recently, an atheist student organization at The University of Texas at San Antonio set up a “Smut for Smut” booth allowing students to exchange their religious scriptures (mostly the Holy Bible) for pornography. Unsurprisingly, they got the idea from another group at The University of Texas at Austin.
If the “Smut for Smut” exchanges begin to spread across the country, many readers will undoubtedly ask why such displays aren’t banned by campus speech codes due to possibly “offensive,” “disrespectful,” or “demeaning” content. Of course, the answer to that question is simple:
Campus speech codes were not designed to preserve our Judeo-Christian heritage through an equal application of rules. They were designed to destroy it through a selective application of rules.
And that is why we observe that a) atheist students are free to call the Word of God “smut” and “pornography” in between campus showings of hard-core porn films, while b) religious students are prevented from using offensive terms like “Christmas.”
It almost gets depressing when you look at schools like Auburn University – a school that is preparing for the lighting of a Holiday Tree, instead of the lighting of a Christmas Tree – a term deemed too offensive and “under-inclusive” in the postmodern era of higher education. And this kind of thing is happening at Auburn, not merely at schools like Brown and Harvard.
But note that in the last paragraph I said it “almost” gets depressing. Enter Laura Steele ([email protected]), a member of the Auburn Student Government Association (SGA). She and a few other members of the SGA have sent forth the following resolution – one that should serve as a model for students seeking to Roll back the Tide of diversity that has consumed other southern schools like the University of Alabama:
RESOLUTION
Whereas, a decorated tree is the traditional, historical symbol of Christmas; and
Whereas, the Christmas tree is a decorated tree celebrating and symbolizing the historical Christmas season; and
Whereas, a tree has historically been known as a Christmas Tree in the State of Alabama, the United States of America and around the world; and
Whereas, the tree has historically been known as a Christmas Tree on Auburn’s campus; and
Whereas, calling the tree a Christmas Tree preserves historical correctness and embraces religious diversity; and
Whereas, in pursuit of Auburn’s spirit of diversity and tolerance of differing ideals, the Student Government Association Student Senate maintains that traditional symbols, religious and otherwise should not be suppressed; and
Whereas, labeling a Christmas Tree as a “Holiday Tree” appears to be religiously intolerant toward those who celebrate Christmas; and
Whereas, the University Administration and the Student Government Association have promoted a spirit of diversity and religious tolerance on campus; and
Whereas, the name of the tree is not a legal issue rather an issue of preference and historicity; and
Whereas, even the display of a manger scene by a government body has been held to be cons utional to celebrate Christmas and its origins;
Therefore be it Resolved, that the Auburn University Student Government Association Student Senate recognizes the decorated tree on campus during the Christmas holiday season by its historical name of “Christmas Tree”; and
Therefore, Be it Further Resolved, that the decorated tree re-labeled a “Holiday Tree” be properly reinstated with its original, historical, traditional, intended, and common le and identified for what it actually is, a “Christmas Tree.”
With the help of the College Republicans, Laura Steele has so far gathered 650 signatures from students urging the SGA Senate to support the resolution. The reason for that is simple: In the name of true tolerance, she supports including other religions in the ceremony. And she thinks that Jewish students would appreciate having a University Menorah on display without having the campus thought police rename it a Mynorah to avoid sexist overtones.
Join me today in writing [email protected] to let these kids know that there is no better place to wage a war against narrow-minded political correctness than Auburn University. And there are no better leaders in our nation’s current cultural war than a young pack of War Eagles soaring high above the Tides of bigotry that masquerade as progressive thought.
Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is a regular columnist for Townhall.com.
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I thought it interesting that this columnist is in North Carolina, yet he heard about the stupid stunt at UTSA.
If you support the actions of the SGA, please send them an e-mail!
At least SA is in the national spotlight. rollseyes
They are?while b) religious students are prevented from using offensive terms like “Christmas.”
This whole "Porn for Bibles" thing wouldn't even be newsworthy if Christians would simply give it the amount of attention it deserves... none.
How can I take this article seriously after that comment?
This column is embarrassing... Are we certain this guy isn't a prankster?
Who uses the word "crusade" on purpose these days when discussing Christian issues? He's too easy of a target.
I have never heard of a student get in trouble at school for using the term "Christmas." I have heard of public schools not wanting to use the term for school-sponsored events, but that's a different issue. Certaintly, this writer wouldn't purposely try to confuse the two issues in an effort to rile up his readers, would he?
This is stupid. The tree is a pagan symbol
Shut up atheist. The tree represents the pine tree that the wisemen brought to baby Jesus when he was in the manger.
Pine trees grow in the Middle East, right?
Ramallah, Palestine.
Ramallah, Palestine.
Is that a "Holiday Tree" or a "Christmas Tree"?
The first thing that popped into my head was "Jerusalem Pine." So I had to go find a picture of one, of course.
If I remember correctly, the five gifts were gold, frankincense, myrrh, beard (given by Chuck Norris), and pine nuts.
Ha! Good catch.
Pine nuts are actually quite the valuable gift. Have you seen the prices lately? $12 for a little plastic container!Ha! Good catch.
Soon there will be "pine nut bugs" freaking out about the economy and exhorting everyone to invest in pinyon groves in the San Juan Mountains.
Always nice to make the majority feel oppressed for the holidays.
beard (given by Chuck Norris)
"Holiday Tree" is stupid.
an X-mas tree
Right, because as I go around the malls and the various stores, all I see are people looking oppressed.
Is that from when Christ started using the "X" because he didn't want to acknowledge his slave name?
The attact on christmas is a real one. It wasn't that many years ago that public displays of manger scenes were allowed - even on government property. Now, they're hardly allowed anywhere. Many retailers have done away with any references to christmas and have instructed their employees not to say "Merry Christmas."
A woman just called in to the Sean Hannity show (I didn't hear where she was from), and she told how the school where her elementary age daughter attends instructed teachers to tell the students that there couldn't be any references to christmas - yet they were singing Kwaanza songs!
You say we should just ignore things like the stunt at UTSA - well, many years ago our parents did that with Madelyn Murray O'Hare, and look where that got us!!
We must stand up for what we believe and not allow the atheists to take away our heritage.
His Greek buddies called him Xpystos, or "X" for short.
Why do we even bother with Kwaanza? Do many black people even celebrate it? We might as well celebrate Festus.yet they were singing Kwaanza songs!
What SW said"Holiday Tree" is stupid.
Did you meant to say "Festivous"?
Now there's a holiday to celebrate!
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