Posted on 12/11/2008 5:18:45 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
A school choir was forced to withdraw from a Christmas event because organisers branded its carols 'too religious'.
Around 60 children aged between seven and 11 had spent six weeks practising favourites including Once In Royal David's City and Silent Night for the Corringham Winter Festival.
But they were let down at the last minute when their headteacher was informed their programme did not 'dovetail' with the festival's theme.
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She understands.
I didn’t know that “pagan winter solstice observance[s]” were “multi-faith.”
Who could imagine a more perfectly designed disease? One that causes people to self-destruct. Creating utter internal loathing to the point of hating ones own family, communities, culture and people with resulting genocidal manifestations.
We are infected with the same sickness in this country although maybe not quite so advanced.
Bye bye, Great Britain. You were indeed great for many centuries and created the greatest force for civilization the world has ever known.
You will be missed. We in the United States will do our best to carry forward your memory and spirit.
>I didn’t know that “pagan winter solstice observance[s]” were “multi-faith.”
Only insofar as there are several religions that have the winter solstice as something.
Once again, Britain has dropped the soap.
Yeah. Nice. How much longer are we going to let this go on? I really think it’s a knee-jerk reaction on the part of these people ( this woman? whoever...). They hear something that sounds a little bit like “religion” to them and they think they have to balk. But I think that’s what the ACLU and other similar groups had in mind in the first place. I believe they want Americans to think instictively that religion and faith are bad. What’s really happening is that we’re destroying the beauty and richness of our heritage. What do we do?
You know what? I’ve decided that believers should DEMAND that nobody who is not a follower of Christ celebrate Christmas. In fact, perhaps we should start celebrating it on the last Saturday of December and only put nativity scenes in our own yards, etc. We should demand that the holiday be taken off the federal register as a day off for banks, government, schools, etc. Then we should indicate that Christians will not be taking part in “Christmas” programs run by secularists.
When I was in public high school, our choir not only sang the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah as part of the Christmas program, but the students and faculty actually stood when we began singing it (which is the proper protocol, like standing for the national anthem).
Later that Spring, we sang that same selection to finish second in the state high school choir competition.
Of course, that was 100 years ago.
Unfortunately, that will be short lived. ;-(
Just heard one on a left coast radio station in WA state that they could sing and get official approval and standing applause - “Santa Claus Will Take You to H*ll!” (Sung to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town!)
(No, I’m NOT kidding!! I can’t tell you how much I wish I were)
Merry Sharia-mas. And a bloody New Year.
There was a thread here yesterday, I think, about a kindergarten in Connecticut where the mother of one of the kids objected to “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” because the word “Christmas” is mentioned in the song.
Say, that children’s choir should record those songs on YouTube and become world renound!!
SAD...absolutely sad what is happening in our World.
Jesus please come again a second time!
Pagan winter solstice would also be religious.
If they want non-religious, then the state has to create its own reason for observing a celebration this time of year.
This is ignorant. The US Constitution assumes Christianity.
What do we do?
Like Churchill said, we fight! On the beaches...everywhere.
When Christians withdrew and took their kids to homeschool or private school, it left behind some of us to fight not only our own battles, but theirs TOO!
Christians need to confront godless liberalism, because you can be sure no one else will. And confront it head on in every situation, all the time.
Look at Britian, the void being back-filled after the secularists destroyed public Christian faith, is Islam.
Faith is ageless. England appears to be rotting away, but I'm not convinced that they have passed the point of no return. They're made of better stuff than that. History tells us so.
Lousy time of year for a celebration. (In much of the country:) It's dark, it's cold, it's hazardous travel...
We need a CHEERY festival, and I suggest we hold it in the springtime to celebrate the returning sun and summertime. Everyone goes about naked on RETURNS DAY, April 15th. (Those inclined to modesty can wear barrels.)
OK. Poor joke
When I was in public high school ten years ago, we had a choir director who was not exactly a holy roller. Her diction ran toward earthy metaphors and Hungarian swear words. Sometimes English ones too. But she always insisted on traditional Christmas music because it had musical value. There were a fair number of Jewish kids in the school, so we sang traditional Hannukah songs too. It was all good. The important thing was we weren’t stuck singing Frosty The Snowman and We Are The World.
She understands.
Yes, definitely. Good to know some still do. And so it begs the question, how long will she get to keep her position... Sad to hear the kids couldn't sing their rehearsed Christmas songs.
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More insanity from the UK, not much different here. Every year it gets worse. The only thing different this year is that a lot of people won't have the money to "celebrate" the birthday of Jesus Christ - who came to teach us that the things of this world won't make us happy, only loving God and our neighbor will - with a digusting display of greed and gluttony. Maybe this will help some look for what the real meaning of Christ-mass is.
Just think of the poor kids - they’ll now think of Christmas songs as something shameful. I hope that someone figures out anohter place for them to sing their songs.
They should have sung outside the building before and after the official "program," or across the street in the park. I expect 90% of the attendees would've stayed. I expect that the cheers would have been louder, also.
I'll never forget the time that such an act of civil disobedience happened in Utah. A single child, with leftist parents, sued and school to force the school choir to sing only secular songs during their December celebration. The school backed down. Nothing religious was sung ... until the performance was over, and the clapping was finishing ... then a man in the audience spontaneously began singing "Silent Night" and the entire audience joined in -- hundreds of parents. All except, of course, the leftist parents and the little putz they called their child, who ran crying off the stage. I hope those students and parents sang all night.
The celebratory aspect of the school experience needs to be deemphasized. Its value in the area of culture and heritage is clearly lost. No school should have the power to disappoint children in this way.
Yes!
Hear that sound? Yep. That’s the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
Edit. I didn’t realize it was Britain. The thing is that I can see the same thing happening here if it hasn’t happened already.
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