ICC Note: The American Humanist Association is threatening to take legal action against public schools which choose to participate in the Operations Christmas Child program sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse, an organization founded by Billy Graham’s son, Franklin Graham. The secularist organization says for schools to participate in the overtly Christian program, which sends thousands of boxes of toys and other gifts to impoverished children for Christmas, is a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The threat is part of a larger effort by anti-Christian organizations across the United States to eliminate every vestige of Christianity from public life in America. 
11/15/2014 United States (Charisma) – An organization of nonbelievers is threatening legal action against public schools that participate in an evangelical Christian charity that delivers Christmas toys to poor children.
The American Humanist Association, a national advocacy organization with 20,000 members nationwide, sent letters this week to two public elementary schools after parents complained their children were being asked to collect toys and money for Operation Christmas Child.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical relief organization founded by Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham. Its stated mission is “to follow the example of Christ by helping those in need and proclaiming the hope of the Gospel.”
The toys collected by Operation Christmas Child come with an invitation for recipients to accept Christianity. Since its founding in 1993, Operation Christmas Child has sent 100 million boxes of toys to poor children.
According to the humanist association, East Point Academy in West Columbia, S.C., has organized a toy drive and raised funds for the charity for at least three years. A second school, SkyView Academy in Highlands Ranch, Colo., has participated for “several years” and has acknowledged packaging 500 toy boxes in 2012.
Both schools received letters from the AHA informing them their actions are unconstitutional. The same day it received the letter, East Point Academy said it would cut its ties with the charity out of “an abundance of caution because we do not want to expend school financial resources defending a lawsuit.”
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