Don\'t Wear Red Because You Might Offend Someone

Grinched! Outrage as school disses holiday
By Danielle Williamson and O’Ryan Johnson/ Milford Daily News and Boston Herald
Friday, December 23, 2005

     A Grinch-like Medway middle school has ordered children to ditch religious songs in tonight’s holiday concert, refer to Christmas trees as “magical trees” and even purge the red from their elf hats.
 
     “I can see a religious holiday being offensive to those who don’t celebrate it,” said Dale Fingar, whose sixth-grade son brought home 10 red and green elf hats and requested she replace the red fabric with white. “But red and green hats? Come on.”
 
 
    The flap has made Medway the new battleground for the Florida-based Liberty Counsel, a group backed by evangelical Christian minister Jerry Falwell that has waged a nationwide war to protect Christmas.
 
    “What is going through the school administrator’s mind?” said Liberty Counsel president Matthew Staver. “It’s ridiculous and an act of stupidity to call something green and prickly a magical tree when all of the children know that it’s a Christmas tree.
 
    “These actions by the school administrator are not mere ignorance of the law. No one in their right mind thinks the law requires this kind of censorship or hostility,” said Staver, whose group forced Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to acknowledge that the city’s holiday tree is a Christmas tree.
 
    Medway parent Tracy Goldrick and her 11-year-old daughter Tess were both disturbed by the school’s decision, which came after two parents complained about references to Christmas in the program.
 
    “Aren’t we supposed to embrace each others differences?” said Goldrick, who said she has spoken to at least 20 other parents who are annoyed at “the watering down of Christmas.”
 
    “The solution isn’t to take Christmas out of the (school events). The solution is telling people to lighten up,” she said.
 
    But Medway Superintendent Richard Grandmont said the decisions to pull “Jesus Christ Superstar” songs from the sixth-grade holiday pageant and have the kids switch the red in their elf hats to white is, in fact, the district’s way of embracing diversity.  [continue]

 

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:rolleyes:

Whatever. If not this, we complain that Christmas is out of control.

Maybe it needs a good reigning in and scaling back.

I\'m not giving any presents this year. And I\'m celebrating outside in the cold beneath a tall dead elm tree.

-Dan

Yeah, taking red away from kids is a good start at reining it in.

Oi. Natural selection needs to do its job quicker.

[Titan]

As much as I am against only calling this season "Christmas Season" (I think of it as the "Holiday Season") and all that other stuff that\'s been in the news ("War on Christmas" is just people are really complaining that other religions are taking over Christmas), this is just retarded. I grew up wearing santa hats and still do sometimes even though I\'m atheist. Let people celebrate what they want. This school is just taking it too far. Elf hats and stuff like that no matter what religion you are is cultural at this time of year.

I actually have a friend that goes to a Jewish college and she said that they were setting up Christmas trees and stuff and the gross majority of the kids were Jewish (including my friend). Just kinda shows how cultural this holiday is today. There is both a secular and religious Christmas. I don\'t celebrate the religious Christmas but more of the secular cultural Christmas.

This reminds me of "The Happy Non-Offensive, Non-Denominational Christmas Play" Southpark episode.

The songs were compilations by Philip Glass, lmao

edit- haha

MC:   And now, South Park Elementary presents the happy, non-offensive, non-denominational Christmas Play, with music and lyrics by New York minimalist composer, Philip Glass!
   
[Philip Glass moves into position and start playing his keyboards. The curtains draw back, and the kids look out at the audience. They begin to move around]

Voice-over:   As I turn and look into the sun, the rays burn my eyes [a track saying "Happy Happy Happy, Everybody Happy" is added, along with an arpeggio. Members of the audience look confused] How like a turtle the sun looks.

Sheila Broflovski:   What the hell is this??? [The kids just keep moving and turning] This is horrible!!!
Priest:   This is the most God-awful piece of crap I\'ve ever seen!!

Mr. Garrison:   You\'re the ones who made it this way!

Priest:   Yeah, it\'s because the Jews said it couldn\'t be Christian. [without a nativity scene, how could it be Christian?]

Mr. Broflovski:   It wasn\'t our idea to take out Santa Claus! [that was the priest\'s idea.]

Elderly Tree Hugger:   All you bastards ruined Christmas!

[Living-In-Clip]

It\'s about damn time.
We need to do away with all these silly holidays.

Viva la no-holidays!

[Titan]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
It\'s about damn time.
We need to do away with all these silly holidays.

Viva la no-holidays!

But then I have to use my sick days when I want a day off

It\'s over now. We can put it behind us.

So uh, who wants to get wrecked for New Year\'s?!

-Dan

Me.

Originally posted by Eiksirf
It\'s over now. We can put it behind us.
-Dan

But next year it will be an even bigger issue. It always is.

I wear red all the time, in fact its my favorite color.  Red is one of the all-time greatest colors.  But just because I wear Red, does that make me a red chinese communist spy?

no, but it makes you really fucking annoying.

Chillax man, no need to get bent out of shape.

I don\'t fill my post with one liners or :thepimp: