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[ Friday, March 25, 2005 ]

Letter to the Editor
America was and is a Christian country

I do not know why our university refuses to give us a day off for Easter. Many other Pennsylvania state-owned colleges have a day off for Easter and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. MLK was a Christian, so he knew that a day off for Jesus would be much more important.

It does not make sense to give a day off for one of His servants, and not Jesus himself.

In addition, an overwhelming majority of people in State College and in the United States consider themselves to be Christian.

The fact of the matter is, majority rules. Other non-Christian people should take their holidays off, but it would not make sense to give those days off in a Christian country.

On a side note, if Hamdan Yousuf believes "Americans are tired of having a fundamentalist interpretation of it shoved down our throats," than why did the majority of Americans vote for a conservative Christian?

Jared Marek
senior-computer science
 

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