Tea Baggers Demand Mandatory Xmas Carols

Members of the Tea Party movement are fighting to force California schoolchildren to sing Christmas carols. Substitute teacher Merry Hyatt has partnered with churches to gain signatures for the ballot initiative, which would require children to either sing or perform Christmas songs at school. Penalties would be imposed on schools that don't comply.

"Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas," the president of the local Tea Party Patriots tells the Redding Record Searchlight. "That's why we have it. It's not about winter solstice or Kwanzaa." An analyst at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, however, says the proposal hasn't got a snowball's chance. "I have two words to say about Ms. Hyatt's proposal: blatantly unconstitutional," he noted. (More Merry Hyatt stories.)