there are a lot of people who are wiccans. if we are going to acknowledge all of the other holidays why these? i tend to agree with you in a sense. but can we really acknowledge them all? will it get to a point where kids will never do their homework to work around? every religion has their holidays slash festivals. i don t see what the problem s. s problem is. i understand businesses or whatever shutdown on christmas because we are a majority christian nation by a lot. that makes complete sense. i think you let people whose religion is smaller you let them celebrate whether they are jewish or wiccan or neo pagan or whatever. i want to say to andy, don t you think the fact he deletes his tweets all the time and says these terrible things all the time, doesn t
krishna when they stay up and sing all night and the university sent out this note to the teachers saying, quote, avoid scheduling major academic deadlines on this day saying it s likely the students will be operating on very little sleep. well, clearly, critics are wondering why it is they have to list every holiday associated with these fringe beliefs? they say it s a little much, but the university told us quoting again we ve not received any complaints, nor are we aware of any issues that are associated with the information provided in the guide. many individuals across campus say they find the guide useful and informational. chinese new year is now in at that book as well. and they have 34,000 students, and 6% are international students, mostly from asian countries. and that s part of the push here behind the pagans holiday. megyn: not sure that the pagans and wiccans students find it useful and informational and the students get the days off in between. thank you. reporter: o
# university of missouri is facing criticism for a policy that puts pagans and wiccan festivals on par with christmas and thanksgiving. and hanukkah. and helping them avoid scheduling exams as projects on holidays. (laughter) okay. trace gallagher has the story, trace? don t offend the wiccans. reporter: don t offend the wiccans. you send out the guide and don t have a student activity on that day. here is the thing, there are 43 of these major holidays that includes the new wiccan and pagans holidays, eight of them and now the wiccans can observe the wiccan new year where you remember the pets and family members and friends who died over the years and sometimes they stay up and pray all night. on top of that, the university says one of the pagans holidays is the hindu festival celebrating the birth of
holidays, 20% of the holidays in their guide are wiccan holidays, we re here to weigh in, with a fox news contributor, and penny, how many wiccans are out there? not many. maybe you and i should go for it we get a heck of a lot more days off, wouldn t we? we would. 20% of the holidays listed at university of missouri holiday guide are wiccan. what is going on here? that seems bizarre. well, you know, it does. i tell you, look, i m a fan of people living lives that best suit them and i don t know any wiccans. i think maybe on a really bad day i might turn into one, i m not sure. but i think this is, it s actually, i think, people who are not christians, majority you re looking at christians, jews and muslims and this is a majority of americans and certainly a majority of americans are christian and over well, close to 80% at this point. but the fact is, i think this is less than it s less about elevating other
nature, an everyday experience. tucker: only a country too rich too long could be this frivolous and silly. the statements from the school, the information about the wiccan and pagans holidays, the statement says, has been in the guide since last fall. keep in mind this is not intended just for faculty, this is an informational guide for anyone across campus. letting you know. letting you know which days you can take. tucker: and christianity and comes down to i think that there s a rejection of tradition. i think this is again, not about elevating anyone else, it s about paganses and wiccans used for a political agenda to downgrade what s important to a majority of americans. i think that this is an anti-tradition action. i think paganses and wiccans should be be very angry about being used by the establishment and i think that there should be a backlash of look, the tradition in this country is what allows people to be paganses and wiccans and