Religious liberty battle rages at Texas school over 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' quote
"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. . ." Linus says. "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
It is that quote, extracted from the special's most overtly-Christian scene, that has thrust a Texas middle school nurse's aid, the school district she works for and the state attorney general into a very public - and unseasonably bitter - debate over what "religious liberty" means inside the walls of the state's public schools.
The battle began last week, when Dedra Shannon, a nurse's aid at Patterson Middle School in Killeen, Texas, scrawled that Linus quote on a 6-foot tall poster, added a cutout of the character and the famously sparse Christmas tree, and taped it to the nurse's office door....