It's the most wonderful time of the year. Well, except for Texas pastor David Harold Grisham, that is.
The pastor has seemingly made it his mission to destroy the magic of Christmas for a whole host of elementary school kids after images and a video emerged of him online dressed up and holding up a sign. See what happened:
He stood outside an elementary school dressed as the Grinch holding up the sign which read: “Santa is Fake. Jesus is Real."
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Grisham posed as the Dr. Seuss character in front of Sleepy Hollow Elementary School in Amarillo, Texas this week to prove his point.
After taking his stance against St. Nicholas, Grisham claims 'police showed up in force'.
"I got assaulted by a parent and they tore my sign, and the police did their very best to distract me from my mission and blocked me from exercising my first amendment rights as much as they could.
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"They as much as admitted so.
"Very unprofessional," he shared on Facebook.
He also claimed the police had had further involvement on the day.
"We were followed by an unmarked car for several miles after we left and one parent even followed us across town and photographed our license plate at a restaurant we stopped at."
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Grisham went on to explain his reasons behind his strange stunt.
"Hundreds of children heard the message and many parents as well.
"It’s very telling for a society to go this far in protecting a LIE.
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"To go that far in trying to protect kids from hearing the truth.
"It’s no wonder our country is in trouble."
In a video of the incident shared by parents, Grisham is heard shouting: "You shouldn’t lie to children,” and “get away from my stuff.”
The school’s principal told ABC News that Grisham was 'unwanted and uninvited'.
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“I’m saddened by the fact that some of our kiddos and families were frightened because of him,” said Kelsey Williams.
Grisham remains insistent as to the religious motive behind his sign.
On his Facebook, Grisham says he is 'in an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ first and foremost above ALL things', adding: "I profess his name before men.
“I am the pastor of a small group of street preachers who take the Gospel to those who will not step into a church,” he concluded.
Annie Walton