Why wouldn't the Milford Daily News publish this??

This letter was sent to many local and regional papers. The Milford Daily News refused to publish it. The writer is a bit right of center and that is a sin in their Editorial Department. Unless you are a "Touchy Feely Leftie" or a friend of one of their big advertisers, your letter will never see ink.

This is a bit off topic for Mendon but worth the read.

(Published December 30, 2005 in the Woonsocket Call)
(Published February 1, 2006 in the Uxbridge Times)



December 24, 2005


The Woonsocket Call
75 Main Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895

Letter to the Editor

No one, anywhere, any time, any way, should dictate that you or your children must call a CHRISTmas tree a magical tree or you must change words to a known song of “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas”, to we wish you a swinging holiday.

All children, parents, employees, and taxpayers associated with the Medway public schools have been discriminated against, which is clearly unconstitutional,

The Supreme Court has made numerous, precedent setting decisions that ensure that no government entity can promote or make policies that endorse any religion. Laws establishing any religion are forbidding in the Bill of Rights under the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, which the court has continually upheld.

What the Medway school administration has obviously forgotten or purposely ignored is, in the same Bill of Rights under the Free Speech and Free-Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment, the government cannot inhibit the exercise of personal religious speech, which is protected under said clause.

The high court has also created an abundance of precedence setting decisions that forbid discrimination against religious speech in public schools. Furthermore, the court has made it clear that religious speech is to receive equal treatment, but not preferential treatment.

The Equal Access Act, which became law on August 11, 1984, and upheld as constitutional in 1990 by a vote of 8-1 by the Supreme Court, is the remedy for the children, parents, taxpayers, businesses, and employees in Medway that want CHRISTmas trees and songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools.

The Act asserts that no public secondary school, as determined by state law, receiving federal funds, can oppose or prevent meetings on school property by student religious or political groups. With some limitations, parents, and in many incidences, teachers, can also attend.

Therefore, all the numerous people that have expressed there condemnation of this attack on CHRISTmas, the children, parents, and employees of the Medway public schools, must take action. They must strive to educate the children, teenagers, and young adults in the Medway public schools, all schools in Massachusetts and throughout the United States, that they can have CHRISTmas trees and sing songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools; especially if their school administration creates policies that ask you to call something a magical tree or sing a song wishing you a swinging holiday.


Robert J. Badzmierowski
Former Selectman Town of Bellingham
Former candidate for State Representative Commonwealth of Massachusetts
79 Caroline Drive
Bellingham, MA 02019
1-508-498-3583