Posted on 12/23/2008 6:47:13 AM PST by BulletBobCo
My 12 year old daughter has been part of a small choir that her piano teacher has put together. They have been singing Christmas carols at different venues this last week. Yesterday, after work, I picked her up and drove her to a Macy's for her to perform. As I was watching her little group do their numbers, the piano teacher's father informed me that Macy's had asked his daughter not to perform "Silent Night". I asked him if he was kidding and he said no. He told me that last Saturday, they sang "Silent Night" at a Starbucks, and people actually got up and left. What is so wrong with singing "Silent Night"?
Silent Night is all it takes to drive away liberals? That’s good to know. I’ll sing it all year long now. It’s easier to carry a tune than a trunk full of silver bullets and wooden stakes.
So WHO do we have to blame? OURSELVES.
As long as we sit back and let the small minority of bigots and anti-Christians have their way, they will.
And that applies to SO MUCH ELSE in this country where we, the majority, have permitted a vocal vicious minority to inflict their views and perspectives on the Majority.
Its one thing to respect minority rights. Its quite another to allow minority opinions dominate the culture.
I know what Sam Adams, Tom Paine and the rest of them would do in situations like this, and perhaps its time we emulated them.
“Grandma got run over by a campaign bus...”
Good point.
They hate Jesus.
Maybe a few customers are nitpickers like me, who don't want to hear Christmas music until Christmas (which Officially starts at sundown tomorrow). Anyway, there are a lot of reasons, other than religious objection to a particular song, why people might leave a business establishment during a performance.
Singing Slilent Night in Starbucks? About on a par with doing 10 minutes of Mohammed stand-up comedy in Tehran! Personally I think I would wotk to get the story out and picket the Macys store...let potential customers know who they’re buying from. Might have a big effect, especially before Christmas.
Don’t forget, though, that a good portion of that 80% answered that they are “Christians” because their family was Christian.
There ARE some willing Satan’s minions at work out there, but, unfortunately, most that are doing his bidding are doing so out of wilful ignorance.
“Don’t forget, though, that a good portion of that 80% answered that they are “Christians” because their family was Christian.”
Scary thought. Londonistan may be closer than we think.
I wish I shopped at Macy’s so I could boycott ‘em.
Maybe they had finished their coffee and needed to get back to work?
I refuse to shop at Macy’s. One because of their politics and two, because they have a bunch of over priced crap that I can get elsewhere much, much cheaper.
A friend of mine who got married this past summer was registered at only Macy’s. I asked her if there was anything else she would like that wasn’t on her registry because I refuse to spend money there. She didn’t get it, but I didn’t expect her to.
So she a Lowes giftcard.
“The spending money part of Christmas is still quite acceptable at Macy’s.”
And here is the beauty of it all. I will no longer spend money at Macy’s. Macy’s might want to look at the NY Times business model to forecast their future earnings.
Democracy in action.
Nothing is wrong with singing “Silent Night”
Just do it in Spanish and the intolerant left will tolerate it.
(Maybe the people in Starbucks just had better things to do than sit and listen to kids warble ... many people go there for their own conversations, not to be entertained )
It's a remindser that the begin-all and end-all does not center around them.
“Silent Night is all it takes to drive away liberals? That’s good to know. I’ll sing it all year long now. It’s easier to carry a tune than a trunk full of silver bullets and wooden stakes.
Good point.”
They are libs. You still need the stakes and bullets.
‘We need to start looking for another planet to colonize. There is no hope of saving this one...’
ok, i’m at a loss over how the libs can justify the attack on Christianity. they claim they are trying to avoid offending people, but that just doesn’t track.
for instance, if 85% of the US is Christian, and 95% celebrate Christmas (i’ve never been sure how that works)... then you add the 3% that are jewish... you would cover 98% of the US population by saying ‘Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah’
in that situation, you run a risk of ‘offending’ 2% of the population. BUT, if you deliberately ignore one of the biggest holy days in the Christian faith, you run a risk of pissing off at least a 25-30% of the Christians.
this is FAR worse, isn’t it? how can the business types actually justify it?
meanwhile, in this commercial atmosphere... if 30% of the population is pissed, and you decided to ‘come out of the closet’ and actually start ENDORSING Christmas, your company could reap the benefit of that pissed off 30% coming to your stores instead
thoughts?
“So she a Lowes giftcard.”
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Would that be the Lowe’s that is enabling a dual language America via their bilingual in-store signage?
“Tell them “X-mas” is a holiday honoring Malcolm X and they would probably print full color flyers and have all of hte top Hollywood performers out the celebrate it.”
And if Charlie Rangel and Al Sharpton went into Harlem and said this, my bet is 75% of the constituents would believe it.
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