Posted on 11/24/2014 11:15:22 AM PST by dennisw
It's a Christmas miracle! An elementary school in a Boston suburb that was going to cancel its annual trip to see The Nutcracker has decided allowing kids to see a Christmas tree on stage will not destroy the non-Christians in the audience. According to whdh.com:
The trip to see the famous ballet has been a tradition at the school for years, but apparently some felt the trip was improper because there is a Christmas tree on the stage.
The issue came to a head at a [Butler Elementary School] PTA meeting Tuesday night. A source said some people were told they were being discriminatory if they supported their kids going to "The Nutcracker."
The controversy was so white-hot, the PTA apparently worked in secret to cancel the field trip:
Some parents of the second graders, who didn't want to appear on camera, told 7News that they're also upset because PTA leaders secretly cancelled the field trip without telling anyone, but word spread.
PTA Co-President Barbara Bulfoni said, "In the past years there were parents complaints as 'The Nutcracker' has a religious content.
You know what? The Nutcracker does indeed have religious content. Everyone in the ballet is celebrating Christmas, a Christian holiday commemorating Christ. Same thing happens in A Christmas Carol, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas, White Christmas, Black Christmas (a slasher movie) and—heck—Handel's Messiah.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Can't remember if it was Steyn or Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Glob that pointed it out in a column years ago.
I love Adam Sandler’s version of the Chanukah song, too!
“O.J. Simpson...not a Jew. But I’ll tell you who is, Hall of Famer Rod Carew. He converted.” Classic.
But I have to admit, I always enjoy SNL’s “Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas,” too.
Trust me... they take them seriously
Always the same angry hateful bunch in any community wherever in America
The unhappy Godless seeking an external utopia to sate their sick souls
I find it VERY hard to believe that there are intelligent Americans who would be able to even think this nonsense...it is frightening that political correctness has gone this far....Pathetic!
All of the Jewish merchants that I know sing”What a friend I have in Jesus” at holiday time.....get over it!
A Christmas tree......is Christian.
Of course it is. I remember reading in Luke about Jesus hanging the star on His Christmas Tree.
Idiots.
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