Oh No She Didn't!!!!!
Well, this post is a rant. Not based on any news event, though I would like to comment on Charles Taylor former president of Africa and on Hugo Chavez building troops trying to defend his country from us, as if...
Anywho, I do a newsletter for my daughters school and am a member of the PTO. This is done for free and is rather time consuming. As you have probably guessed by my posts, I am pretty much agnostic, borderline atheist. Having said that, in the monthly calendar in the newsletter, I would put most holidays in the calendar. This included Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Chinese New Year, Yom Kippor, etc. and along with the verbage, I would put a small picture representing the day, or event. I did this along with Arbor day, Spring break, you know, days of importance to most people.
Well, someone complained that I was trying to push my christian agenda! I bit my tongue and only said, I am sorry that people are not open minded enough to respect all cultures, beliefs and religions. Truly, I believe that, but to be accused of pushing an agenda, that was a kick in the pants. When I pointed out that there were images and verbage of many other religions and cultures, they didn't care about that, only the christian stuff.
So, now the newsletter will be plain jane. No images, and only reasons for school closings during the week. Weekends blank, and for goodness sake, no mention of anyones beliefs. This is total bullshit! Everyone should have the freedom of speech, EVERYONE! I don't care if it is promoting or protesting, but damn, it is not like there was some church info, it was a picture that said LENT, on the day of lent. This is enough to have me quit doing the newsletter. I only did these things for filler, you know so the calendar didn't look empty, hell are these things not on all calendars?
Oh well, some people just suck, and are not happy unless others are miserable.
On another note, Sandlapper, I hope you get well soon, and thanks for the lack of prayers. ;)
Anywho, I do a newsletter for my daughters school and am a member of the PTO. This is done for free and is rather time consuming. As you have probably guessed by my posts, I am pretty much agnostic, borderline atheist. Having said that, in the monthly calendar in the newsletter, I would put most holidays in the calendar. This included Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Chinese New Year, Yom Kippor, etc. and along with the verbage, I would put a small picture representing the day, or event. I did this along with Arbor day, Spring break, you know, days of importance to most people.
Well, someone complained that I was trying to push my christian agenda! I bit my tongue and only said, I am sorry that people are not open minded enough to respect all cultures, beliefs and religions. Truly, I believe that, but to be accused of pushing an agenda, that was a kick in the pants. When I pointed out that there were images and verbage of many other religions and cultures, they didn't care about that, only the christian stuff.
So, now the newsletter will be plain jane. No images, and only reasons for school closings during the week. Weekends blank, and for goodness sake, no mention of anyones beliefs. This is total bullshit! Everyone should have the freedom of speech, EVERYONE! I don't care if it is promoting or protesting, but damn, it is not like there was some church info, it was a picture that said LENT, on the day of lent. This is enough to have me quit doing the newsletter. I only did these things for filler, you know so the calendar didn't look empty, hell are these things not on all calendars?
Oh well, some people just suck, and are not happy unless others are miserable.
On another note, Sandlapper, I hope you get well soon, and thanks for the lack of prayers. ;)
posted by Snappy | 4/03/2006 08:09:00 AM
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