Posted on 05/13/2011 9:55:15 PM PDT by tlb
WASILLA — When members of Wasilla High School’s symphonic jazz choir heard Friday it wouldn’t be singing the popular Queen hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” at this year’s graduation ceremony after working on it all year, the students couldn’t get their heads around it.
WHS Principal Dwight Probasco reportedly had received complaints from at least one parent that the 1975 hit written by Freddie Mercury wasn’t appropriate for the ceremony simply because Mercury was gay.
“The whole thing was just ridiculous,” senior Rachel Clark said Monday. “They’d played the song on the school intercom and we played it at prom.”
Choir member Casey Hight, a junior, was angry enough to contact a gay and lesbian support organization in Anchorage. They told her to contact the American Civil Liberties Union.
“I felt like the school was discriminating for sexual orientation and I felt it was wrong,” Hight said Monday. “It’s so stupid because there’s nothing sexual in the song. There aren’t even any cuss words.”
Although Probasco wouldn’t comment on the issue Monday, Senior Class Advisor Deb Haynes said Probasco has now agreed to allow the choir to sing an edited version of Bohemian Rhapsody that doesn’t include lyrics in one section about killing a man.
“The kids had put a lot of time into the song, but at graduation we really try to accommodate anything that might be a sensitive issue for anybody,” Haynes said, adding she didn’t understand why the song would have been a problem in the first place. “I’ve heard it a hundred times and it’s never bothered me.”
Hight said she believes Probasco decided to put the song back on the graduation program because he didn’t want any problems with the ACLU.
“We were joking about singing Elton John’s ‘Candle in the Wind,’ instead,” Clark said.
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>>> Bohemian Rhapsody as a polka? It would be to die.
You inspired me to look. Who knew.
Bohemian Polka - Weird Al Yankovic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfLX7zE6jxw
Warning. Freddie Mercury polkas may turn you gay and leave you hopping around in leather Lederhosen.
Did you spell that correctly? I thought it was spelled (ahhhh)!
“Smokin’ in the boys room” by Brownsville Station.
Happened again...here in Greenville County, SC. Principal says no prayer at graduation (which previously was voted upon by the student body, which had voted yes to have one for the past 50+ years)...one student complained that it was "offensive" (with parent's backing of course), and so now, no prayer. No vote. No prayer. Period.
Offensive? I'm so darn sick and tired of this "offensive" defense. Nobody has a right in America to NOT be offended! Sheesh! This PC crap is absolutely killing the country! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
What the hell are you not seeing? Hard to debate w someone who thinks writing hell is a sin. Go away simpleton.
LOL...American Bandstand...
Bob bob bob ! LOL
‘Go away simpleton.’
Around here it is those who seem to be irreligious, racist, newbies who tend to go away.
“WHS Principal Dwight Probasco reportedly had received complaints from at least one parent that the 1975 hit written by Freddie Mercury wasn’t appropriate for the ceremony simply because Mercury was gay.”
Yeah...and I remember a parent who complained that my daughter’s 9th grade dance was to be held on Good Friday, and it offended her.
Of course, that was the day they left for Disney World, and they didn’t want their daughter to miss the dance so they complained to have the dance cancelled.
Queen was brilliant and nothing will ever take that away from them.
“Anyway the wind blows...”
A wasted use of the anti-homo-indoctrination card. There a better battles than this which shouldn’t be a battle at all.
Irreligious-I’m Protestant. I don’t need another human to tell me I’m ok w God. Racist-God made men & women, he gave me the werewithal to see them as they are. Newbie-what a stupid argument. Not surprising.
You are a suspect troll, and more evidence of it will not be helpful.
IBTZ!
I expected better out of you. Ban me if you want.
Dude, you ban yourself.
Usually, you make a lot of sense. Not sure what I said that has made you want to ban me. I’m pretty sure I know but please explain.
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