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MIDDLETOWN, N.Y., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A mom in the New York town of Warwick is in trouble with the neighbors over her decision to demand Santa Claus not be featured in an area school.
By complaining against the presence of the Christmas character at her children's school, Cori Robbins has found herself at the center of a major holiday debate, the New York Daily News reported.
"It has been unbelievable. All I said is I didn't think a character associated so strongly with a religious holiday has any place in my children's school," she said. "The next thing I know, I have become the most hated person in this town.
"I'm being shunned by people, they give me dirty looks as they pass me. I have actually had death threats."
While Warwick's issue was solved by adding Frosty the Snowman to the school's holiday cast, similar problems have been springing up across New York, the newspaper said.
Incidents include the removal of a Nativity scene from an area mall and the renaming of a celebrated Christmas tree as a "holiday tree."
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