Oh man, I'm loving this.
Remember in December, during the War on Christmas? One of the battles in that war was between a whacko group and a bunch of elementary school kids in Ridgeway, Wisconsin, a quaint little town of a couple hundred people that doesn't even have a high school. Ridgeway Elementary school was doing a school play written twenty years ago by a Presbyterian minister. The play used popular Christmas song melodies with different lyrics in order to tell its story.
Well, the whackos decided the school had changed the lyrics to Silent Night because they hated Jesus, and went ahead and informed the whole nation that that's what happened.
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Even Bill O'Reilly piled on, mentioning Ridgeway (but mispronouncing it Ridgewood) on
Late Night with David Letterman.
The whole thing was rather unpleasant for Ridgeway.
So. A small, sixty-something woman named Diane Messer, superintendant of schools in Dodgeville (Ridgeway elementary is in the Dodgeville school district), is fighting back!
Now, the district is asking the Liberty counsel to retract their statement, apologize and reimburse the district nearly $24,000 for legal fees and other expenses related to the incident.
Hahahaha! I don't think they'll get the $24,000 back. But DAMN it is nice to see it in the media. To feel like they don't just get to do that, to lie and get away with it. To feel like someone's fighting the hell back.