Cancer center’s Santa gets boot
Liberty Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
BY RENEE DUDLEY, PostandCourier.com
It’s not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston’s Hollings Cancer Center.
For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good cheer and snacks to patients sitting through chemotherapy treatments. The 67-year-old James Island resident, a retired insurance executive who calls himself a “gregarious guy,” paid for his own costume rental.
On Tuesday morning, a volunteer coordinator told Cloyes his services no longer were needed.
“Because of our state affiliation, we decided not to have a Santa presence this year,” Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said. Hollings is a part of the Medical University of South Carolina.
Decorations will be “more secular and respectful to all beliefs,” Agnew said. “We don’t want to offend a volunteer with good intentions, but we need to think of the bigger picture. People who are Muslim or Jewish or have no religious beliefs come here for treatment,” she said.
Bah humbug, said Cloyes, a self- described libertarian with no religious affiliation.
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My lack of political correctness has this to say about the hospital since THIS IS AMERICA….
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
Rhonda
November 16, 2011/Wednesday
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I’m sure the kids will be happy to hear how you have ruined their Christmas in the name of socialism…I mean political correctness. I don’t remember seeing a cross hanging around Santa’s neck. And isn’t he a fictional character with no religious affiliation anyway? Yes, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus (who BTW was the King of the Jews! Duh) and is celebrated by more secular people than I can even imagine (don’t have a religious affiliation). It is the most celebrated holiday in the world on a commercial scale too. Yet we have an idiot who thinks that it is dis-respecful to the Muslims? They’re trying to kill us! Hello? Who cares if we offend them? If they want a “holiday” to celebrate that is similar to Christmas, let them go to Congress and ask for it. Then we can all run around saying that we aren’t going to participate in their reindeer games either because we’re offended. Get a backbone people. If you don’t agree with something, don’t participate. But allow those who want to their freedom to do so. That’s why this country was founded in the first place. And why we haven’t killed or deported the muslims either. Because they have the right to worship as they see fit too. I don’t agree with their religion, but I don’t care either.