{"id":82226,"date":"2017-08-28T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=82226"},"modified":"2017-08-28T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T21:29:59","slug":"shock-catholic-school-removes-statues-of-the-virgin-mary-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=82226","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK: Catholic School Removes Statues Of The Virgin Mary And Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Too Alienating: Catholic School Removes Statues Of The Virgin Mary And Jesus<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Matt Vespa<br \/>\nTownHall.com<\/p>\n<section id=\"article-media-object\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-main-image img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/ha\/2016\/100\/6d91381b-5626-4eeb-bd61-78a72ba0719a.jpg\" alt=\"Too Alienating: Catholic School Removes Statues Of The Virgin Mary And Jesus\" \/><\/section>\n<section id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left\"><\/aside>\n<p>So, statue hysteria is far from over. I mentioned how this has progressed in some areas of the country. Of course, the Confederates are in the crosshairs. Then, the Founding Fathers were said to be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2017\/08\/17\/tear-em-down-cnn-commentator-says-slave-owner-george-washington-has-to-go-too-n2370091\">at risk of being<\/a>\u00a0put on the chopping block. Now,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2017\/08\/20\/latest-victim-of-statue-hysteria-catholic-saints-n2370930\">Catholic saints<\/a>\u00a0are on the target list. It doesn\u2019t stop there. \u00a0A Catholic school in California has removed statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ because it could be alienating and they so they can be more inclusive (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/08\/25\/california-catholic-school-under-fire-for-removing-and-relocating-alienating-religious-statues.html\">Fox News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A California Catholic school is facing a backlash from parents after officials took down some religious statues &#8212; including one of Mary and baby Jesus &#8212; over concerns that they were \u201calienating\u201d prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the San Domenico School in San Anselmo said parents of some prospective students who visited the campus \u2013 which was founded in 1850 and serves 671 students grades K-12 &#8212; expressed concern about the religious figures, according to the Marin Independent Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you walk on the campus and the first thing you confront is three or four statues of St. Dominic or St. Francis, it could be alienating for that other religion, and we didn\u2019t want to further that feeling,\u201d Amy Skewes-Cox, who chairs the school&#8217;s board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>Cecily Stock, who is head of the school, said most students are not Catholic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019s not the point: you removed statues of the Mary and baby Jesus. That\u2019s not a Catholic thing; that\u2019s a universal symbol of Christianity. This is just insane, and even non-Catholics are making that point (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/social-affairs\/20170824\/san-anselmos-san-domenico-school-creates-stir-by-removing-catholic-statues\">Marin Independent Journal<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kim Pipki, whose daughter left San Domenico two years ago after graduating from ninth grade, said some of the statues were also important to families who aren\u2019t Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one main statue that has everyone fired up is the baby Jesus and Mary one,\u201d Pipki said. \u201cIt was at the center of the primary school courtyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pipki said the school had a ceremony during which children would place a crown on the statue of Mary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was less about God and more about passing on some traditions,\u201d Pipki said. \u201cPeople were shocked that the statues were pitched in the basement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are we doing here, people?<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HashtagGriswold\/status\/901113048567615490\">Alex Griswold<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2017\/08\/26\/too-alienating-catholic-school-removes-statues-of-the-virgin-mary-and-jesus-n2373209\">http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2017\/08\/26\/too-alienating-catholic-school-removes-statues-of-the-virgin-mary-and-jesus-n2373209<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Alienating: Catholic School Removes Statues Of The Virgin Mary And Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}