Post #5: Controversy: Academic

Church Calls Off ‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas Show Amid Controversy

This particular controvery takes place in Little Rock Arkensass the towns local church called the Agape Church decided to put on a chirstmas play for their community and have a school feild trip for the kid of "A Charlie Browns Christmas" story. This play was based off of the 1965 movie and incorporated the telling of the Nativity story throught the gospals of Luke told to us by the character of Linus. A parent who felt the trip was inappropriate reached out to the ASF to voice her concern with the show’s religious connotations, which reportedly differed from her own, the station learned.
From there, a campaign was launched to cancel the class trip. “We’re not waging a war,” LeeWood Thomas, a spokesman for the group, told KATV. “We’re basically calling a foul against the separation of church and state.” The school district got involved as voted in the chrches favor but not before finding out that the chrch cancled the production the chruch had this to say: “In the wake of some controversy over our Christmas production offered to school, Agape Church wishes to salute the courageous stand that the Terry Elementary Principal made in not succumbing to the pressure of one complaint voiced to the Arkansas Society of Free Thinkers and media,” Caldwell said in the release, according to the station. ”We applaud the support that the Little Rock School District has shown … and agree with their position that attending the matinees was not a constitutional issue.”

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/12/05/church-calls-off-charlie-brown-christmas-show-amid-controversy/