Posted on 12/23/2008 6:47:13 AM PST by BulletBobCo
My 12 year old daughter has been part of a small choir that her piano teacher has put together. They have been singing Christmas carols at different venues this last week. Yesterday, after work, I picked her up and drove her to a Macy's for her to perform. As I was watching her little group do their numbers, the piano teacher's father informed me that Macy's had asked his daughter not to perform "Silent Night". I asked him if he was kidding and he said no. He told me that last Saturday, they sang "Silent Night" at a Starbucks, and people actually got up and left. What is so wrong with singing "Silent Night"?
but Ramadan carols would be most welcome!
People got up and left? So what is the problem? If they were offended, that is better than filing a lawsuit or starting a fight. As for banning the song, I would defy anyone try that here in North Carolina.
And the problem is what, exactly? They vote with their feet as it should be. The shop owner can vote by not allowing them back in.
Non-problem solved.
Maybe they were done their coffee and wanted to get on with their shopping or go home. Performing for a casual audience, rather than one that purposely came to hear the music, means that some people are going to move on.
Macy’s can take their red star and STUFF IT!
Macys is one of the worst of the War on Christmas types. Stores like Target, Home Depot, and especially Lowes have all responded to complaints they have removed Christmas (How many times can Lowes say Christmas in one TV ad-WOW!!! lol)
Macys is a fixture at sponsoring homosexual events with no fear of offending anyone, but mention Jesus—nooooooooo!!!!
The spending money part of Christmas is still quite acceptable at Macy's.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was almost grounded at Murrayville Elementary School after a parent complained about the word Christmas in the song.
We need to start looking for another planet to colonize. There is no hope of saving this one...
Christmas:
The Creator of the Universe, Judge of us all, incarnating Himself as a human in order that we might be absolved of our sins against Him, and be reconciled with Him.
That’s what’s “wrong” with it. It reminds folks that they are on the wrong road.
Perhaps they should sing “Silent Scream” instead..................
Tell them “X-mas” is a holiday honoring Malcolm X and they would probably print full color flyers and have all of hte top Hollywood performers out the celebrate it.
I think that "Silent Night" evokes fear in a way that almost no other carol can do.
IMO, folks who are "offended" by it, are often the ones who are being pressed hardest by God, and they're fighting against it. "Silent Night" scares them because it is something against which they have no argument -- it embodies the Peace that passeth all understanding, and it draws them in.
He did say that we would suffer persecution because of Him. The world proves it every day.
Maybe they're just really bad singers(?)
I think that Macys would have prefered they sang one of Obama's favorites..."Grandma got run over by a reindeer"
anyplace where people are so dumb as to show of their prosterity by drinking four dollar coffee is bound to be infested with libs, who want the presents christmas portends, but cannot stand to even think about why christmas exists at all.
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