U.K. College Drops References to Easter and Christmas from Calendar
By Don Irvine | September 14, 2008
Yorskshire Coast College has come under fire for dropping references to Easter and Christmas from its internal calendar in the name of diversity.
From the Yorkshire Post.
A YORKSHIRE college was yesterday accused of “political correctness gone mad” for dropping references to Christmas and Easter from the staff calendar in case it offends ethnic minorities and non-Christian faiths.
Scarborough’s Yorkshire Coast College circulates the internal year planner every year to 150 teaching staff, and up to 50 other workers, so they are aware of important dates such as term times and training days.
Previously the winter and spring breaks have always been referred to by the names of Christmas and Easter. But this year both have been changed to “end of term break” in response, says the college, to Ofsted calls for social inclusion.
But Scarborough Tory MP Robert Goodwill said yesterday: “It is political correctness gone mad. I hope they will think again and re-christen Christmas and Easter.
“It is absolutely crazy. Let’s celebrate diversity not be embarrassed by it all – and we are a Christian country and proud of it. We are delighted people of other faiths have come here but this is being over-sensitive and will probably stoke up resentment and detract from inclusiveness.”
A college spokeswoman said: “What happened was our administrators produce a college calendar for curriculum staff every year. It is for internal use – not something we are publishing for external sources.
“During a meeting looking at this calendar someone mentioned what did we think about calling it Christmas or Easter, or whether it should be ‘end of term break’ or ‘winter break’ – because there is guidance from Ofsted about diversity.”
This is just another in a series of politically correct ideas that officials invarious parts of the U.K. have succumbed to in the name of diversity and inclusion.
UPDATE
Carole Kitching, interim principal at the college, said: “Yorkshire Coast College no longer makes reference to Easter and Christmas in some internal documents. However, it has not removed Easter and Christmas from its annual calendar of events.
“We are sorry that we may have given the impression that the college no longer celebrates Christmas and Easter. We apologise for any concern and distress this may have caused.”
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Ah Don. The U.K. is a cesspool of Judeaism vs Islam. Anyone with 2 cents worth of intellect knows that. Tis all a matter of who feeds you.
True Conservatives feed themselves and pass on what they can to those less fortunate. Seems you prefer to suckle from the Rothschild teat in return for doing their dirty work. Your ilk are just Toads for the greater glory of Satan. Come Judgement day, Christ will tell you… ” I never knew You.”
With Christians being killed in so many parts of the world – Sudan, Iraq, Iran, I would think that the dangers of pandering to Islam would be clear to all.
If this is about God, then remember that He loves all of us in spite of and because of our mistakes.
But, it isn’t about God. it is about who’s in control and the insecure and insipid bureaucrats of the UK who have nothing more to do than make insignificant and meaningless gestures to multiculturalism are in control in the local and national governments.
Our task is to swallow our frustration at their ignorance and remember that these are people who have no life outside of their petty position; so they must do something to make themselves noticed, however irrelevant, insulting, or meaningless it might be. In the larger picture God understands, but it gets a bit difficult for we mortals who have to deal with these cretins on an everyday basis. Smile gently as one does toward the child who discovers that being noisy can acquire the attention from adults that they desire.
One more reason to pass a Constitutional amendment proclaiming the USA a secular Christian nation. It will stem some of the ugly anti-Chistian PC and should be written so that Shira (sp) law (which is often quite arbitrarily what any mullah decides it is at the moment) can never become part of the law of the land in the US. Take a good look at the UK if you have any doubts as to the need for us to take positive action here. Also note that Political Correctness is 100X more destuctive than McCarthysm ever was, both in its pervasiveness into all aspects of American lives and in its viciousness, and that the number one target of PC in America seems to be Christianity, the second democracy. Nominal Christians often shrug it off as a sort of innocuous multiculturalism, not realizing that anti-democratic fanatics are using PC to advance a much more violent agenda. The Muslims are not alone in fighting fanaticism. Every religion has its self-ordained who claim to to speak for God, or those ordained by religious organizations who similarly purport to speak for God, who whenever and wherever they gain power, attempt to impose rigid codes, sometimes fanatical codes, upon the populace. Democracy and religious fanatism cannot coexist. Thus the amendment must be for “secular” Chrisitianity, which will allow us to freely express our Christian traditions like Christmas, Easter, our Judeo-Christian ethics, our traditonal tolerance of other religions as long as they do not militantly attack Chrisitains or teach a hatred of Christians or any other religion, and respect the Constitutional guarantees of individual rights, including the rights of women.
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Wake up UK, the Islamic Nation is patient. They are planing to take over the world. Read the Koran, after they give you a chance to convert to Islam, they will be free to attack you in your home, supermarket or mall. Osama Bin Laden has told you all of this in the last eight years. Once you fail to convert, they will kill you.