The Scrooge Report Tracking…

H.S. football coach vs. Supreme Court, chasing King Solomon, and Home Depot’s Christmas avoidance…The Scrooge Report is following these stories:

Coach asks permission to bow head while players pray

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J (WorldNetDaily) – A high school football coach is going to the U.S. Supreme Court to ask permission to be “respectful” and bow his head while the players on his team pray for each other and their opponents prior to each game.

“We’re teaching kids values. There’s nothing wrong with being spiritual,” said coach Marcus Borden of East Brunswick, N.J., High School…

…Now, KDVR-TV in Denver reports plans to take the dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court…(read more)

Copper ruins in Jordan bolster biblical record of King Solomon

JORDAN – (Los Angeles Times) A massive copper smelting plant in the biblical land of Edom is at least three centuries older than researchers previously believed, placing it firmly in the traditional timeline of King Solomon, considered the greatest ruler of Israel, researchers reported Monday.

The existence of Solomon 3,000 years ago has been questioned by some scholars over the last two decades because of the paucity of archaeological evidence supporting the biblical record and the belief that there were no complex societies in Israel or Edom capable of building fortresses, monuments and other sophisticated public works, such as large mines, in the 10th century BC…(read more)

Home Depot: Hanukkah, yes! Holidays, yes! Christmas, no!

American Family Association:

Home Depot has it’s new holiday website up and running. You can find many gifts for the holidays. You can even find gifts for Hanukkah. But Christmas? Home Depot’s website hasn’t a single reference to Christmas. Not one. At Home Depot, Christmas doesn’t exist!

Home Depot has elected to go with the politically correct crowd and censor Christmas, replacing it with holidays…(read more)

UPDATE: Home Depot responded to AFA’s email campaign to alert consumers. In part, a letter from Home Depot states, “…we are adjusting our Web site to make ‘Christmas’ more prominent and to make our site more aligned with our advertising and point-of-sale in-store signage. Customers will start seeing the adjustments later this week.”

AFA added: “As a point of clarification, AFA mistakenly reported the word “Christmas” was totally absent from Home Depot’s website. A few product descriptions did, in fact, contain the word ‘Christmas.’ We have apologized to Home Depot for the error.”

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Rogue CNN in the tank with anti-Palin crowd

CNN Headline: Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says

Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue.”

Hmmmm… “several” McCain advisers have suggested? But only “one aide” described? How convenient!

McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls — recorded messages often used to attack a candidate’s opponent — “irritating” even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan.

Off-message and deliberate? Robocalls are irritating and McCain pulling out of Michigan prematurely? Say, it ain’t so! My gosh, how “rogue”! It used to be saying something like that was factual (robocalls) and just a disagreement (Michigan)…now it’s rogue?!?

Hey CNN, I heard that Biden didn’t agree with what the DNC served him for breakfast this morning? I think he said it should have been eggs and pancakes instead of eggs and toast? Now THAT’S rogue!

CNN, you are a rogue media outlet, hell bent on breaking from journalistic integrity!

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New York Parade Axes ‘Christmas’ From Name

SCROOGE ALERT: Just because Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s never too early to call out Scrooges, here’s this AP story:

Town’s parade draws fire for dropping ‘Christmas’

A famed fireworks company is pulling out of a holiday boat parade because “Christmas” was dropped from the event’s name.

Fireworks by Grucci won’t lend its sparkle to Patchogue’s Nov. 23 parade – decorated yachts on the Patchogue River – because the organizers have renamed it the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade. It was the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade last year, when the Grucci company donated $5,000 worth of fireworks.

The company’s vice president, Philip Butler, who has criticized the secularization of Christmas in the past, said parade organizers were “using all the themes of Christmas and plagiarizing all those themes.”

Organizers in the Long Island town said the parade has had several names over its roughly 15-year existence. The name was changed again this year after complaints that the use of “Christmas” seemed to make the parade less inclusive.

“When I think about fireworks, I don’t think about Christmas anyway,” Mayor Paul Pontieri said. “I think about the Fourth of July.”

The venerable Grucci company is famous for providing spectacular fireworks displays at major national celebrations. It is based in Brookhaven, not far from Patchogue.

What a great touche, Mayor Paul Pontieri! Now, when I think of the Patchogue “Holiday” Boat Parade I’ll think what a sellout!

Parents Not Given Notice of ‘Coming Out Day’

PROP 8 NEWS: LifeSiteNews.com is reporting that California elementary school parents were blindsided by a homosexual “Coming Out Day.” The discovery of a homosexual event at school lends steam to the pro-marriage Proposition 8 campaign, reported the “Life, Family, and Culture” themed site.

This from LifeSiteNews:

SACRAMENTO, October 23, 2008 – Parents of students attending an elementary school in Hayward, California, are in a frenzy after learning the school allegedly made no effort to inform them their children were to participate in today’s homosexual “Coming Out Day” school event, reports the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a legal firm specializing in the defense of religious freedoms and parental rights.

Parents of children at Faith Ringgold School of Art and Science were shocked to see a poster announcing the homosexual event, as they had not received any previous notification. In fact, according PJI, the school specifically decided not to inform parents ahead of time.

Sign of Things to Come?

Brad Dacus, president of PJI, commented on the issue, attributing the existence of such an event in a school in part to the legalization of same-sex “marriages” in California.

“Do we need any further proof that gay activists will target children as early as possible?” he asked. “Opponents of traditional marriage keep telling us that Prop. 8 has nothing to do with education. In reality, they want to push the gay lifestyle on kindergartners, and we can only imagine how much worse it will be if Prop. 8 is defeated. This is not a scenario most Californians want replayed in their elementary schools.”

The discovery of the planned “Coming Out Day” at Ringgold School has come at an opportune time for advocates of true marriage in California – in the final weeks leading up to election day, when Californians will vote whether or not to protect marriage in the state. Much of the battle over the true marriage ballot initiative, Proposition 8, has focused on California’s schools, with supporters of Prop. 8 saying if homosexual “marriage” is legal, it is only a matter of time before teaching acceptance of homosexuality is mandated in schools. Opponents of Prop. 8 have vociferously denied the claim, saying that homosexual “marriage” has nothing to do with schools.

The recent development at the elementary school, however, has provided powerful anecdotal fodder for the Yes on 8 campaign.

Not the First Time

“Coming Out Day” is far from the first time children as young as five at Faith Ringgold have been indoctrinated with the pro-homosexual agenda. The school is in the midst of celebrating “Ally Week” as part of “Gay and Lesbian History Month.”

When one mother asked her daughter earlier this week what she was learning in kindergarten at the school, the 5-year-old replied, “We’re learning to be allies.” The mother also learned that her daughter’s kindergarten classroom is regularly used during lunchtime for meetings of a Gay Straight Alliance club.

LifeSiteNews.com attempted to contact the school board regarding the issue. There was no answer, however, and the board’s phone mailbox was full. A representative at Faith Ringgold at first claimed she knew nothing about the “Coming Out Day,” but then said that only the principal, Diana Levy, could answer questions about the event.

Principal Levy is also the acting principal at an adjacent school, Markham Elementary. A representative at that school did confirm that “Coming Out Day” was indeed being celebrated at Faith Ringgold, but the principal was unavailable for comment due to the fact that she was in a meeting regarding the controversial event.

Faith Ringgold seems to have set the promotion of the homosexual agenda as a priority on its 2008 calendar, as several other pro-homosexual events are slated in the coming weeks.

TransAction Gender-Bender Read-Aloud

For instance, several parents have noticed numerous posters around the school promoting talks on the family scheduled for later this week; all of the posters, however, depict only homosexual “families.” As well, On November 20, the school will host TransAction Gender-Bender Read-Aloud, where students will hear adapted tales such as “Jane and the Beanstalk.”

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Other Blogs:

Gay marriage: California parents beware
Massachusetts second graders
Gay Marriage Certain To Impact California Education
Pro-Marriage, Not Anti-Gay
Ellen Equates Support for Prop 8 as ‘Hate’
California’s Slithering ‘No’ Campaign
What same-sex “marriage” has done to Massachusetts
Marriage Prop Opponents Talk the Talk, Don’t Walk the Walk, on Equality and Tolerance
School Holds Surprise “Gay” Day for Kindergartners
California Crusader
It’s “Gay” Day at School Today
The Asymmetric Case for CA Prop 8 – Protecting Traditional Marriage
Coming Out for Kids
Why Preserve Man-Woman Marriage

Other News:
Purpose-Driven Pastor Rick Warren Announces Support for Proposition 8

Ellen Equates Support for Prop 8 as ‘Hate’

Ellen Degeneres, appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday, voiced her opposition to California’s Proposition 8 by saying financial contributors supporting a ‘yes’ vote on the measure “don’t need to promote hate.”

“There’s a lot of people raising millions of dollars. They are trying to take this away from us and trying to stop gay people from marrying…,” Degeneres said. “I look at the people that are losing their homes and that are foreclosing, and people in Texas that have lost their homes. There are so many people that need money right now and if you are raising money right now, and if you are raising millions of dollars, give it to those people right now because you don’t need to promote hate.”

Proposition 8, as defined by the Yes on 8 campaign, places into the California Constitution the same language that voters already passed by 61% of the vote in 2000. This is necessary to overturn an outrageous California Supreme Court decision that overturned Proposition 22, supporters say.

Although gay activists and opponents to Prop 8 have used terms such as “homophobia” in describing supporters of traditional marriage, the Yes on 8 campaign’s website, ProtectMarriage.com states otherwise:

Proposition 8 is about preserving marriage; it’s not an attack on the gay lifestyle. Proposition 8 doesn’t take away any rights or benefits of gay or lesbian domestic partnerships. Under California law, “domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits” as married spouses. (Family Code § 297.5.) There are NO exceptions. Proposition 8 WILL NOT change this.

Protect Marriage: About Prop 8

Proposition 8 is simple and straightforward. It contains the same 14 words that were previously approved in 2000 by over 61% of California voters: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Because four activist judges in San Francisco wrongly overturned the people’s vote, we need to pass this measure as a constitutional amendment to restore the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.

Jay Leno also voiced frustration as to why people would be against gay marriages, saying he visits West Hollywood frequently and that “it’s the nicest area, the cleanest area, the safest area.”

“I don’t get it,” Leno said. “If two people want to do something together…”

Degeneres and Leno on California’s Prop 8

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Other Blogs:

Gay marriage: California parents beware
Massachusetts second graders
Gay Marriage Certain To Impact California Education
Pro-Marriage, Not Anti-Gay
Ellen Equates Support for Prop 8 as ‘Hate’
California’s Slithering ‘No’ Campaign
What same-sex “marriage” has done to Massachusetts
Marriage Prop Opponents Talk the Talk, Don’t Walk the Walk, on Equality and Tolerance
School Holds Surprise “Gay” Day for Kindergartners
The Asymmetric Case for CA Prop 8 – Protecting Traditional Marriage
Coming Out for Kids
Why Preserve Man-Woman Marriage

UPDATES AFTER PASSING OF PROP 8

Ellen DeGeneres ’saddened beyond belief’ at California’s narrowly passed ban on same-sex marriage

Examiner.com:

Ellen DeGeneres is not alone in mourning the passage of Californian’s Proposition 8, an initiative that would change the state’s constitution to require that marriage is between a man and a woman. The City and County of San Francisco, the City of Los Angeles and the County of Santa Clara have sued to invalidate Proposition 8.

Obama Behind the 8 Ball?

Prop 8’s Pink Elephant in the Room

How ‘gay rights’ is being sold to America

Misguided Activism