Separation of Church and State gone to seed and silliness

This just in from the Harold Sun:

... a high school brass band in Columbia in the US has been told it can no longer practise Christmas tunes that mention Jesus, even though the songs are all instrumentals.

Meanwhile in Tennessee, primary school children have been banned from reading Bibles during recess after a complaint from atheist parents.

And, in Milwaukee, a man has been sacked from his Chamber of Commerce job for wearing a cross on his lapel that could "offend" non-believers.

In England, a local council ordered the removal of a wooden cross from a crematorium chapel for fear of offending non-Christians.

And hospitals in England and Canada moved to remove Gideon's Bibles from patients' bedside tables to "control infection" and also because "the patients might not all be Christian."

Meanwhile, Students in Scotland voted to ban the Bible from the halls of residence at Stirling University because they thought the book's presence might bother followers of other religions.

Of course, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists in Western nations seem less offended by such things than politically correct secularists.

In the name of respecting all religions, a new form of secular hostility against Christianity has emerged.

Speaking at a conference on religious intolerance this month in Spain, the head of a Vatican delegation called on Europe to halt spiralling anti-Christian discrimination.

Archbishop Antonio Canizares said: "This must be combated with the same determination with which we combat anti-Semitism and discrimination against Muslims."

Read more here. (A tip of the hat to Adam Holland)