re: #122 NJDhockeyfan

We know that but it doesn’t stop some people. There is that candy cane incident for example heading to the Supreme Court now. I’ll be interested to see how that ends up.

Here’s another take on that story:

Reopening of “Candy Cane Case” no present for Texas principals

There will be no celebrating of Christmas with candy canes by two Texas area principals this holiday season. Yesterday, an appeal was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision granting the educators qualified immunity in the so called “Candy Cane Case.” It is doubtful that it is coincidental that the appeal was filed just three days prior to Christmas in a move that is sure to increase publicity for this case.

The background to this appeal is that in Plano, Texas, third grade student Jonathon Morgan sought to distribute to his classmates Christmas gift bags each of which contained candy cane ink pens. Attached to each of these pens was a laminated bookmark on which was printed, “The Legend of the Candy Cane.” The message described that the candy cane is a Christian symbol with the shape representing the “J’ in “Jesus” and the three stripes representing the trinity. The school principal at the time told the parents that Jonathon could not distribute the gifts.

Continues.

Excerpt from said “legend of the candy cane”:

The traditional candy cane has 3 small red stripes to remind us of the soldiers’ stripes by which we are healed and a larger stripe which represents the blood shed by Christ on Calvary’s tree (Is 53:5; Mt 27:32-50). Some people say that the 3 small stripes honor the Holy Trinity while the larger Exstripe reminds us of the one true God. Others claim that the small stripes represent our mini-passions or sufferings and the great stripe symbolizes Christ’s Passion. A green stripe is sometimes placed on candy canes to remind us that Jesus is God’s gift to us. (Green is the color of giving.)

And from Snopes.

Claim: Candy canes were created to symbolize Jesus, their shape representing the letter “J” and their colors standing for the purity and blood of Christ.
Status: False
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