Posted on 12/13/2009 7:30:38 AM PST by markomalley
Good heavens. As attractive as a bag full of a**holes, lousy eyesight, horrible sartorial choices, smug, and with an attitude to boot. The poster family for Wiccans.
Given that,I assume that these clowns insist on going to work/school on Christmas Day or,if they can't do that,insist on not being paid for the day off.
Once you hit the professional scene, if you refuse to sing or play something, you don’t get gigs.
Every story like this is accompanied by a photo of the family, all wearing the same dreary "I'm such a victim" facial expression. And the kid they're using as the poster child for their cause is featured prominently in the foreground.
Not only will this make life difficult for her now, but I wonder if, down the road, this girl is going to resent having been the center of this sort of notoriety. Knew a teenage girl locally whose obnoxious liberal mother prominently used her to promote some ideological differences she had with the school district. The poor kid hated it and just wanted her mother to stop so that she could go to school in peace.
Some battles are indeed worth fighting, but I can't imagine using my child as a lightning rod to promote my own oddball ideology.
Why are we allowing the minority to tell us what to do? What is wrong with the majority who believes in GOD? Who are Christians? Why are we allowing our rights to be stripped away for the minority.
Exactly. So what.
She’s 15 living under her parents roof. Give her a chance to grow up.
I’m sure she takes enough crap from her school mates that she doesn’t need it from a bunch of grownups on this site.
Why?
To whoever posted the pictures, thank you. I knew this twirp would be fat and ugly. I however didn't suspect that her entire family would look like genetic u-turns.
They advertise the concert with handbills posted in store windows, etc. They make money from a small, voluntary admission at the door. The community supports the event. The choir does NOT depend on the government (i.e. the school district, whatever) to fund it programs.
The time will come when the populace will have to get off its collective duff and organize its own religious events or lose them all together....and it's coming soon.
Screw the school and start an after-school choir practice in someone's donated privately-owned facility or Mr. Doe's three-car garage.
The downside of this being that the average reaction of actually doing something on one's own these day will be shrieks of religious persecution coupled with ineffectual handwringing and eventual shoulder-shrugging.
Leni
“It’s not a very pushy religion,” Katarina said. “It’s really easy to worship. We accept everyone, and we don’t diss anyone. We don’t put any other religion down. We accept them while other people just judge them.”
Then why doesn’t she go along and sing anyway and not be so “judgmental”?
Whose Rights were stripped away here? This girl isn’t going to sing a couple of songs. BFD.
This is going to end in a lawsuit... trust me. When the girls says:
“This is school and not church,” she said. “I was the one kid that stood out.”
That’s all I need to know. They will come up with some ridiculous lawsuit either just after the performance, or next year right before the “Holiday” program. Funny, my daughter is in choir and she had no problems singing the two Hanukkah songs that were part of the program. Nor did the three Jewish kids in the choir have any issues singing “O Holy Night” or “Silent Night” or “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
Yancy
Or maybe "That Old Black Magic."
"We don't believe in Satanism," Jean Keen said. "We worship trees, the solstices."
How very Christian of you.
On 9-11, did they go out and worship a tree?? Betcha 10 -1, they were praying...for real.
Being a Christian does not result in blindness to the obvious.
Bottom line to the story. You can't blame the girl, she's a victim of parental child abuse, trying to do the right thing as she has had it drummed into her by dysfynctional parents.
Come to think of it, there are quite a few good wiccan songs.
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