'Jesus Christ Dancers' Asked Not to Perform at Holiday Festival Event

Agape Press ^ | 12/12/05 | James L. Lambert

[dukeman]

Finally! Something outside of Wisconsin.

[proudofthesouth]

I'm not even a Christian and this offends me! Has this country lost ALL common sense?!?

[BenLurkin]

Sad.

[mewzilla]

Referring to removal of her group from the Holiday Festival, Ramirez asserts the city "made a biased decision. I was told that there were complaints about the T-shirts. When asked further about the complaints, a city official changed his story."

Gee, a little more info on this would be nice.

[orionblamblam]

Graduates of the St. Vitus School of Dance, I assume...

[Darkwolf377]

Christian hip-hop?

Kinda like vegetarian meatloaf.

[silverleaf]

If they were the "Che Guevera Dancers" they could probably not only dance, but be paid to perform by federal grant money.

[randog]

I smell a huge discrimination lawsuit.

[pgkdan]

This stuff is just soooo stupid! Petty bureaucrats and city officials who are stupid enough to make these kind of decisions are too damned stupid to hold public office and they need to be hounded out of office. I hope the good Christian folks of Chula Vista hound this clown right out of a job.

[Ann Archy]

Christian hip hop....hmmmmm..sounds like an OXYMORON!!

[highlander_UW]

I'm not even a Christian and this offends me! Has this country lost ALL common sense?!?

Yes, it has.

[paudio]

Christian hip hop....hmmmmm..sounds like an OXYMORON!!

Why? Hip hop is a music genre. While it's true the majority of hip hop lyrics are bad, it doesn't mean we cannot have clean hip hop music. If many youths actually listen to this kind of music, I think we can actually reach them with Christian hip hop.

[siunevada]

Gates was asked about a Hawaiian dance group that, according to Reyes, performed "Feliz Navidad," "The First Noel," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and a Hawaiian prayer song that was sung in another language.

After challenging a city representative on this point, Reyes said Gates told him that, "I don't understand those songs, but I do understand what those shirts say."

Gates' budding career as a spokes-model comes to a screeching halt.

Must be a San Diego thing. The weather is way too clement. "We're trying to celebrate the holy-days, let's keep Jesus out of it, please."

[Trampled by Lambs]

Almost as funny as Christian Heavy Metal.

[GLDNGUN]

I'm not even a Christian and this offends me! Has this country lost ALL common sense?!?

Do you really need an answer to that question? :-s

[doug from upland]

Yes, and some of us are trying to fight this leftist insanity.

[calex59]

I guess the part of the 1st amendment that mentions that freedom of religion will not be prohibited kind of slipped by these idiots. I hope the dance groups' parents sue these worthless bast***s for suppression of religious rights(And I am not a Christian!)

[Random Access]

Had he just asked the little girls to remove their shirts and dance topless, he would have 1/2 of Hollywood on his side.

[SkyDancer]

What holidays are these people talking about???? Isn't there only one coming up?

[calex59]

Ok, speaking of Holidays, are you aware that Holiday really means Holy day? The left will sh** it's pants when Christians start celebrating the Holy days(meaning the 12 days of Christmas). We(all conservatives, Christian or not) should all point out what Holidays really means. The celebration of the 12 Holy Days of Christmas, and then wish them all a very happy Holidays:).