December 07, 2005
"Silent Night" Becomes "Cold in the Night"
Banning Christmas songs from school concerts is annoying enough. What's worse is when the songs are changed to reflect stringent PC requirements. Here's what students in Dodgeville, Wisconsin will be singing to the tune of Silent Night:
Cold in the night, no one in sight,
winter winds whirl and bite, how I wish
I were happy and warm, safe with my
family out of the storm.
Perhaps we'll soon be hearing the same kind of arguments being made in Australia by The Forum on Australia's Islamic Relations, who find Christmas politically incorrect, and want the word Christmas eliminated--replaced by a word like "festive" instead.
If that's the case, I want Ramadan to be changed to "Month of Denying Oneself Nourishment."
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Yes! I am going to start calling it that. I haven't been by in a while, sorry about that. But whenever I come back, you always have something here to keep me!
Posted by: Oddybobo at December 8, 2005 09:34 AMIt wasn't banned for "PC Requirements." It was a school play that had been performed many times in the past without complaint. The lyrics were not changed for any political reason. It was because the kids knew the tunes. This is done all the time in school plays. These tunes happened to be from Christmas songs. No one complains when lyrics are changed in other songs for the same reasons.
Posted by: Cliff at December 9, 2005 10:35 AMThen sing Jingle Bells.
Posted by: Pam at December 9, 2005 10:43 AM
