Join the War on Christmas: Court Rules No Religious Christmas Songs in the Schools.
Get over it Christian. Your reign is over. This is a more diverse population. Be happy that your child isn't forced to sing Jewish Hanaka songs. And since you so often want to ignorantly claim that atheism is a religion then be happy your child doesn't have to sing songs written by Dan Barker.
Court upholds N.J. district ban on religious songs.
This is one local letter to the editor that expresses my opinion:
Court upholds N.J. district ban on religious songs.
A ban on religious holiday songs in the School District of South Orange and Maplewood has been upheld by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. The judges ruled Tuesday that administrators may determine which songs they consider appropriate, according to constitutional guidelines, to create a secular and "inclusive" academic environment.You can read the court's opinion right here.
This is one local letter to the editor that expresses my opinion:
evilkumquat: Hmm, it's December. It must be time for yet another season of whining about the "War on Christmas®".
Get over yourselves, Christians. Just because the courts are finally denying you all that unconstitutional favoritism you've been enjoying for a couple hundred years doesn't make you "victims".
It's no different than having a "war" on bigots by passing Civil Rights legislation.
You should be happy, after all. You were able to deny rights and privileges to so many, many people over the course of the last year. Link.
12 comments:
Hurrah! That is all.
I don't want to sing Dan Barker
songs -- and I'm an atheist.
His stuff sounds just as hokey
as it did when it had
Christian lyrics
That Dan Barker comment cracked me up!!!! I'm still laughing.
I feel sorry for the parents who are going to have to sit through their children's holiday programs. When my kids were in grade school, they would always sing an innocuous Christmas song along with a Kwanzaa song and a Hanukkah song. The crappiness of the songs only accentuated the crappiness of the singing.
I was very happy when they got to high school. Not only was the singing better, but the choir director made selections based on musical merit. I would much rather listen to a musical masterpiece with an overtly religious theme than a piece of crap without one.
It makes me sad. My dirty little secret is that I like Christmas songs. All of them. No matter how religious they are.
Ah, the sweet smell of subjugation in the morning.....
"stigmatize, legalize, criminalize= brings demise (repeat)" - a well worn formula used throughout the history of mankind by the religious and nonreligious alike.
This is fitting for the atheists to celebrate the enforcement of cultural ignorance and negligence in school curriculum.
For school music teachers not to be able to teach sacred music is like math teachers being told that they can't teach fractions.
It'd be like an introduction to art class that ignored all the sacred art by people like Davinci, Michelangelo and so on.
Sacred music has an undeniable place in the richness of western culture and students deprived of this are forced into the intellectual myopic poverty that is hard core secularism.
John, I like you and I appreciate the work you do here - it's vitally important in my opinion. But this is one time where I gotta disagree. However, my point I think is better made by a cartoon squirrel than by anything I could write myself, so here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZjR7xyyWE&feature=channel
(Please note that the insults Foamy hurls are not my own, but his general point I agree with)
What a victory for common sense! What kind of idiot schools would have the audacity to play Christmas songs for the kids at Christmas time? Ban them!
In fact, why not just ban Christmas, or make it compulsory to call it XMas or the Winter Festival?
Or...
Maybe not. This is the kind of wrongheaded thinking that will prevent atheism ever spreading en mass. Who wants to be so boxed in and hostile to religion that we stop kids singing Christmas songs/ Talk about a joy deficit. I don't know what I believe anymore, but Christmas is a time of shared experience and cultural markers and common reference points. Why not just leave it alone?
be happy your child doesn't have to sing songs written by Dan Barker.
Oh, I missed this refference.
This must be the atheist who's music you didn't like and he threw a fit about it. That's funny!
If we ever get away from this idea of "our" "public" schools, the busybodies on both sides who want to shove their views down others' throats will have one less thing to argue about.
Nationalizing education makes about as much sense as nationalizing supermarkets, health care, etc. Costs go up, quality goes down, everyone fights over how to run "their" institution and only the lawyers really win.
If you want to teach the earth rests on the back of four elephants, great - start your own school and see how many parents want to send their kids there. If they don't come, tough luck. The same goes for those who think we should be teaching English, math, and science. Somehow, I wouldn't be worrying too much about who would win out in the end. (Poverty has a way of making people see what works best in this world.) And I also wouldn't be worrying about what songs they choose to sing. If it's important, start another school and see if anyone cares. Don't go running to a lawyer to try and force people to do it your way.
I like this Christmas song I appreciate the work you do here. it's vitally important in my opinion.
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