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Olympic Skater Sasha Cohen 'Stunned' by X-Mas Flap
Reuters ^ | 12/14/06 | Dan Whitcomb

Posted on 12/15/2006 12:07:41 PM PST by meg88

By Dan Whitcomb | December 14, 2006

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen was "stunned" to learn that a U.S. high school choir had been ordered to stop singing Christmas carols at a holiday show because she is half-Jewish, her mother said on Thursday.

Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Other sports RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed Share on Facebook Save this article powered by Del.icio.us More: Sports section | Latest sports news | Globe front page | Boston.com Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts A city official accompanied by a police officer caused a stir by silencing the carols on Tuesday night as Cohen signed autographs after a performance in Riverside, California.

Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge has since apologized to the student choir, the Rubidoux High School Madrigals.

To some, the incident appeared an example of excessive political correctness in the United States over the celebration of Christmas -- which some conservative commentators have characterized as a "war on Christmas.'

Cohen, who is half-Christian and "celebrates everything" during the holidays, learned only through news reports that the choir had been cut off on her account, the 22-year-old skater's mother and manager said.

"Sasha was stunned. We both thought the voices were just lovely, they were doing such a wonderful job," Galina Cohen told Reuters. "Christmas carols are part of celebrating the holiday season."

The Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper reported that the Madrigals had just launched into "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" when a city special-events employee told them to stop singing.

Cohen's mother said the 2006 Olympic silver medalist and U.S. National Champion had taken part in Christmas tree lighting ceremonies at New York's Rockefeller Center and in California.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: Mr. Mojo

half Christian? This was on KFI several nights ago.


41 posted on 12/15/2006 12:20:06 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Mercat
one and a half as in teaspoons?

Is that a 'heaping' or 'level' teaspoon?

42 posted on 12/15/2006 12:20:42 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The default mode of the heart is set for Drift.)
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To: BearCub; dfwgator
Don't forget HELLen Thomas. Please don't forget HELLen Thomas, when it comes to not posting pictures.

Dang, now I got this awful mental picture in my head.

43 posted on 12/15/2006 12:20:45 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: pgkdan

When they mix up the Christian Cookie Dough to cut you out of, they leave out repentance and sanctification, then you have a "half-Christian".


44 posted on 12/15/2006 12:20:47 PM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: GSlob

She's half-Goy.


45 posted on 12/15/2006 12:21:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: meg88
"half-Christian, half-Jewish?"

Fercryinoutloud -- Rotoreuters talks like religion is the same as a dog breed.

46 posted on 12/15/2006 12:21:15 PM PST by r9etb
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To: BurbankKarl

Is that like half crispy?


47 posted on 12/15/2006 12:22:22 PM PST by Mercat
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To: meg88
Cohen, who is half-Christian. . . .

That's like being half-pregnant. Either you is or you isn't.

If they were wanting to refer to *ethnicity*, then they should say, "half-Jewish, half-Gentile." "Gentile" does not equal "Christian"; it equals "non-Jew."

Also, it is possible for someone to be 100% Jewish ethnically (a descendant of Jacob) and 100% Christian religiously (a believer in Jesus). Most all the first Christians were. I know people today who are.

48 posted on 12/15/2006 12:23:06 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Gentile Christian, Lutheran pastor, Ph.D. student in Biblical Studies)
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To: InvisibleChurch

It depends on the recipe or, if you don't use recipes, it depends on what your grandmother taught you.


49 posted on 12/15/2006 12:23:17 PM PST by Mercat
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To: InvisibleChurch
"So, how does one split a triune God? Half-Christian? "
Easily. Not three, but one and a half: sesquiune.
50 posted on 12/15/2006 12:23:43 PM PST by GSlob
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To: mountn man
since you asked...

51 posted on 12/15/2006 12:23:51 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: MikefromOhio
Another picture of S Cohen


52 posted on 12/15/2006 12:24:06 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: dfwgator

I'm glad somebody around here understands protocol and priorities.

Thank you.


53 posted on 12/15/2006 12:24:43 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: r9etb

Maybe she's a self-hating sinner?


54 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:07 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: MikefromOhio

Oh...........my.................god.............


55 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:20 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: MikefromOhio

gotta love a girl who can do that..lol...i could do it but id have to do it in shifts


56 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:26 PM PST by skaterboy
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To: mountn man
Cohen, who is half-Christian

LOL, my first reaction was to post, "That's like being a little bit pregnant".

I decided to scan replies first.

57 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:30 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: rottndog

You just had to do it, didn't you?


58 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rottndog
AAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are a rottndog.

59 posted on 12/15/2006 12:25:44 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: meg88

What about singing Half-Christmas Carols? ;)


60 posted on 12/15/2006 12:26:17 PM PST by Kurt_D
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