Okay, I know this was said relatively long ago in the thread, but it sums it up quite nicely for me:
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
Just don't tell me I can't have a manger scene next to it.
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That's exactly the problem. You CAN have a manger scene next to it. Anyone who feels like it has the right to display their religion. Wonderful. But by this token, if there's a single Jewish kid in your class, he has the right to request that the class sing at least a few Hannukah songs at the school Christmas play.
"You can have your Christmas carols, just don't tell me I can't have a round of
Hava Nagila right after it."
And that one atheist kid? He gets to make everyone sing "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer." And the Muslim kid gets to add in whatever songs he wants. And the Kwanzaa kid. At some point, it's just too much of a pain in the ass to be inclusive to everyone. So you create a generic substitute. No one is happy, but no one is left out either. It's just not
practical in a lot of situations to allow one of everything.