12/9/11 MEDIA OUTRAGED RE REMOVAL of "GAY" but NOT "CHRIST: "Media Finally Outraged Over Christmas Censorship – When It Involves the Word ‘Gay’ By Rusty Weiss | December 08, 2011 | 20:53 The war on Christmas music has taken a strange turn, with the mainstream media finally up in arms at the overly PC handling of the holiday’s song lyrics. But it isn’t the constant barrage from uber-sensitive ..." "...No, it’s an elem teacher in Michigan that has raised their ire. The flurry of controversy arose when the teacher weary of hearing her students giggling every time they had to sing the words ‘gay apparel’ during their rendition of Deck The Halls,decided to replace the word ‘gay’ with ‘bright ..." "...What you may not have heard covered in the MSM was an essay penned by one Colin Curran, a 16-year-old high school junior from New Jersey. Taking to the Huffington Post during this same time period, Colin told a story about a high school assignment which involved creating a music playlist for a young children’s holiday breakfast. There was one catch – none of the songs could contain a certain set of offending words, such as Christmas, Hanukah, Jesus God, or Santa Clause. The reason, Colin explains, is that the“principal does not want to offend anyone with belief-specific music”...." "....[yet] all one has to do is look up Deck the Halls on Wikipedia to see an original version of the lyrics, featuring the line, “ our bright apparel.” I find it fascinating that the same people that are outraged that a teacher would remove the word 'gay' from a Christmas song, are the same people who would voice zero opposition if the word 'Christmas were removed from a Christmas song...." http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2011/12/08/media-finally-outraged-over-christmas-censorship-when-it-involves-word-

MEDIA OUTRAGED RE REMOVAL of "GAY" but NOT "CHRIST: "Media Finally Outraged Over Christmas Censorship – When It Involves the Word ‘Gay’ By Rusty Weiss | December 08, 2011 | 20:53 The war on Christmas music has taken a strange turn, with the mainstream media finally up in arms at the overly PC handling of the holiday’s song lyrics. But it isn’t the constant barrage from uber-sensitive ..."

"...No, it’s an elem teacher in Michigan that has raised their ire. The flurry of controversy arose when the teacher weary of hearing her students giggling every time they had to sing the words ‘gay apparel’ during their rendition of Deck The Halls,decided to replace the word ‘gay’ with ‘bright ..."

"...What you may not have heard covered in the MSM was an essay penned by one Colin Curran, a 16-year-old high school junior from New Jersey.  Taking to the Huffington Post during this same time period, Colin told a story about a high school assignment which involved creating a music playlist for a young children’s holiday breakfast.  There was one catch – none of the songs could contain a certain set of offending words, such as Christmas, Hanukah, Jesus God, or Santa Clause.  The reason, Colin explains, is that the“principal does not want to offend anyone with belief-specific music”...."

"....[yet] all one has to do is look up Deck the Halls on Wikipedia to see an original version of the lyrics, featuring the line, “ our bright apparel.” I find it fascinating that the same people that are outraged that a teacher would remove the word 'gay' from a Christmas song, are the same people who would voice zero opposition if the word 'Christmas were removed from a Christmas song...."

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