Posted on 06/20/2002 11:08:28 AM PDT by southern rock
(Uniondale, Long Island-AP, June 19, 2002) An honors student at Kellenberg Memorial High School has been told not to come back for her senior year because she has refused to sing a medley of songs from the play Jesus Christ Superstar.
Megan Gaffey says she and her family consider the songs blasphemous.
As part of the spring concert, the school's chorus sang several selections from rock opera. But Gaffey, a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, said the medley was offensive. Gaffey says she asked to be excused during that medley or not to participate in the concert. Instead, she was removed from the chorus. James Gaffey says his daughter should have been excused from the concert for exercising a matter of conscience, or penalized in some other way for not participating.
Brother Kenneth Hoagland, principal of the Uniondale school, says the challenge to the songs only brought to a head almost three years of conflict with the family who "did not accept the school's notion of Christianity."
Hoagland says the parents showed they "had no confidence in the school's administration." He advised them to "seek a school more in line with their philosophy."
The Kellenberg School was founded by the Marist Brothers. It's 98 percent Catholic and all students must be Christian.
Gaffey wants to see his daughter graduate from Kellenberg next year. Otherwise, he said, she most likely will attend Amityville High School in the fall. She ranks among the top 15 in a class of approximately 340 students.
Gaffey attended a Christian day school from kindergarten through second grade and then was home schooled until she started as a freshman at Kellenberg.
It seems to me that your statement condemns you. I actually have the Scriptures on my side.
The Lord said "Strive [literally, agonize] to enter in by the narrow door." That command reveals that the easy-believism which is inarguably rampant in our day is a fraud, winston.
The rest of His sentence was "...for many shall seek to enter in and shall not be able." This reveals that easy-believism is a counterfeit which definitely will fool many strictly nominal Christians.
One of the reasons why Calvinists notice the problem of easy-believism is because they believe that very verse! (You Arminians just don't face the verse soberly.)
Another passage parallels this one with its idea of a narrow doorway of salvation: the parallel passage says "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be which find it.
Again, this underscores exactly what I said in the post which you (judgmentally and foolishly) scoffed at as the statement of a judgmental fool.
This becomes even more obvious when you read what the Lord went on to say: "For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many will go in thereat."
So, the problem of easy-believism is a bigger problem than you have been willing to admit. It is Satanic. This is why you have falsely accused me (over and over and over).
That, in turn, is why I have no intentions of continuing this discussion with you.
Interesting that you nit pick the word ALL to death saying it always means all of every kind and sort..and now you find fault with the term most...
Yes we do know "most "when we see it...
The gospel never promised it would be all or most..Jesus said MANY are called but FEW are chosen
I agree. Teaching in Texas when the musical was popular, I used Mary's song and a couple of others for discussion and theme writing in 8th grade English. Some of the students didn't know the Biblical story of Easter. They enjoyed the music and the discussion.
Taken separately, some of the music is very good of its genre, and the inuendos seen in the entire musical are not presented. dBefore making a decision on this particular medley, I would have to hear it. Then it would be subjective for every person.
vaudine
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