“Festive Time”
An elementary school in Ottawa was flooded with hateful and threatening e-mails and phone calls after media reports that it had removed the word “Christmas” from a song to be performed at its Christmas concert.The choir at Elmdale Public School did not sing its controversial version of the song Silver Bells at its closed-door concert Thursday after receiving dozens of angry reponses, including some containing foul language.
Lynn Scott, chair of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, said some callers accused the school of being anti-Christian and some threatened teachers and officials at the school.
“It’s appalling to me that people could be so intolerant and disrespectful and hateful at a time of the year like this when we’re supposed to be thinking about generosity and peace and good will,” she said. “I’m not seeing very many Christian values in the reaction we’ve had.”
Teachers had originally intended to replace “Christmas time” and other Christmas references from the song’s original 1951 lyrics with words referring to “a festive time.” cbc
And pray why was there a need to replace a perfectly good lyric with a PC lyric?
“intolerant and disrespectful and hateful at a time of the year like this”. Honey, this is not the emailers’ problem, it is your problem for being stupid, provocative and tone deaf at this very time of year.
Of course this is anti-Christian in the sense that Christmas is a profoundly Christian holiday. Deleting all references to it in a “Christmas concert” quite rightly outrages people. As for Christian values - they only go so far and when PC driven secularists take it upon themselves to take the Christmas out of “Festive Time” it is well past time to go Crusader on the dolts who come up with this sort of loonieness.
And people wonder why I homeschool.
Update: I wonder if a complaint to the HRCC might lie in this matter. Personally, as a Christian - albeit of the Anglican sort - I feel demeaned. Hurt. Offended. Hmmmm.
Written by jay on December 22nd, 2007 with
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