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An effort to rename winter break “Christmas break” failed at Monday night’s Millard school board meeting.

Board member Paul Meyer led the effort, saying that atheists who disagreed could “crawl back into their hellhole.”

Meyer’s proposal garnered sympathy but no support from fellow board members.

He made his proposal during a discussion prior to adoption of the 2017-18 school calendar for Millard Public Schools.

He expressed disappointment that the administration had not labeled the break on the calendar — Dec. 25, 2017, through Jan. 5, 2018 — as Christmas break.

Meyer said he was getting “a little bit tired of a minute minority in this country that keeps pushing Christmas out, keep pushing God out, keep pushing Christ out, when the majority is still a Judeo-Christian country.”