(GR) 'Happy Holidays Charlie Brown'? So what happened in that Kentucky play?

So what happened? What did Linus van Pelt say?

I am referring, of course, to the controversy that unfolded this past week in Johnson County, Ken., where school officials ”“ after receiving complaints from some in their community ”“ removed the speech by Linus at the pivotal moment in an elementary school production of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Click here for the previous GetReligion post focusing on the Lexington Herald-Leader coverage of this Christmas wars showdown.

Here was my main point in my previous post: If Linus could not recite the key lines from the Gospel of St. Luke ”“ in response to Charlie Brown’s anguished cry of “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” ”“ then what was Linus going to say? It appeared, in previous coverage, that no one asked that question.

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