Jewish family flees Lancaster County after wrongly being blamed for Christmas play cancellation

[HonestJohn]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Jewish-family-flees-Lancaster-County.html?mobi=true

DECEMBER 22, 2016 — 2:37 PM EST
by Mari A. Schaefer, Staff Writer  @MariSchaefer

A Jewish family has fled Lancaster County after the cancellation of a fifth grade production of A Christmas Carol was partially blamed on them by conservative news outlets.

The Hempfield School District said the extra time the non-curricular event required and not complaints about the line "God bless us, every one!" prompted cancellation, according to a story on PennLive.

The play has been a holiday tradition at the Centerville Elementary School for more than three decades. In September, the Jewish parents asked if their child could be excused from the play, and were told yes. After the decision to cancel the play in November, their child was harassed at school, according to a story on LancasterOnline.

When news stories,  which portray the school’s move as part of a “war on Christmas," broke on Fox and Breitbart News Network, the school received more than 200 complaints.

When the parents saw the reader comments to the Breitbart story suggesting their address should be published, they pulled their child from school and temporarily left the area, according to the LancasterOnline story.

“There’s no way we’re going to take a chance after the pizza incident,” they told the website.

(more at link)

[HonestJohn]

My family did the same thing when I asked back in the mid-seventies, ie: asked that I be excused from the school play.

Back then, it was a nonissue.

Now, the school overreacts and the nutcases come out to declare jihad against those that do not celebrate their faith.

[TomSea]

Those naughty Christian white people.

[240B]

We will eventually find out that the cancellation was done by some overzealous White Liberal. They always overreact to any perceived slight. Like when they all but cancel Christmas entirely when one Muslim complains.


Liberals are constantly trying to prove to themselves how enlightened and tolerant they are. They overreact and they almost always do more damage than good.