Posted on 10/27/2016 8:26:41 AM PDT by Maudeen
UPDATE!! Please read!
The University Town Center Mall has just released the following statement:
"The materials created and distributed by a third party company relating to the hiring of performance groups for UTC were not reviewed by UTC staff in advance of distribution. These materials do not in any way represent an existing center policy or viewpoint. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused within the Sarasota community." . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at afa.net ...
Regardless of whether the mall itself, or a hired consultant, proposed the no-Christian-music policy, it is a sign of the times. The same people who want to privatize Christian Christmas music as “divisive” or even “offensive” are the same ones who want to impose their own cultural artifacts and policies on us, no matter how offensive we might find them.
Sounds like some atheist, sniveling, liberal, PC wonk tried to get their agenda instituted...........or it was a muslim.............
‘Happy Holiday’ malls and stores should be avoided. Spend a little time in a Christian Church this upcoming CHRISTMAS!
Those people who worry about taking the Christ out of Christmas are behind the curve. They need to worry about taking Christmas out of Christmas.
Or should I say taking “Christmas” out of the “festive season”.
Happy New Year.
He is in NO position to allow us to say anything. Encourage us, yes. Allow not a friggin' chance. If that were possible Obama and Hillary would already have banned it. MERRY CHRISTMAS. HAPPY HANUKAH!
Vote Trump!!!
The headline is just as it appeared this morning in the link from my e-mail to the AFA site.
Sing
Silent Night in German
I know it copied correctly. It does not match the story
Sounds like that mall recovered from its Macycide and NFLcide thoughts re no Christmas during the Christmas shopping season in record time.
The store owners in the mall might have paid some personal visits to the mall owners to change their mind.
But Christmas carols in Spanish, Latin, or German were OK, per the original memo from Taubman.
‘Happy Holiday’ malls and stores should be avoided. Spend a little time in a Christian Church this upcoming CHRISTMAS!
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The last 5 years or so, I’ve abandoned “commercial” Christmas. Buying presents was an expensive chore & when you find yourself buying gift cards because you don’t know what people “like/want”, then the present doesn’t have much value other than monetary any more, IMO.
After hearing stories of Christmas in the Depression years from my folks (piece of hard candy & an orange - my dad, as the youngest once got a pair of socks), I decided that any gift I gave would have to be hand made or something that absolutely was ‘perfect’ for the person receiving it & a nominal price (example: a new book found for $1 about “What is my cat thinking” for a relative who recently rescued an abandoned cat). The first year I made presents, I was actually excited again to see my family members open their gifts. This process has evolved ... some folks (the younger ones) do not appreciate hours of hand work so this year I am canning produce out of my garden and they will all get things to ‘eat’ (salsa, jellies, chutney, hot pepper butter, etc.). There is still time/effort involved (growing garden, harvesting, canning), but it’s not the hours spent the entire 3 months before Christmas working on detailed, handmade items. I have not been to a mall in years, Christmas shopping or otherwise, BTW.
Anyway, I’d like to see the whole family go to making all their gifts or better yet, we go to no gifts at all and have a big family dinner (with all making some contribution) & spend time together - the most meaningful gift we could give to ourselves. We do get together for a big Christmas meal, but if that was considered the “present”, I think it would mean even more. The family does all go to church so that is an important part of the Christmas season for us.
Sing Silent Night in German
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When our church has it’s Christmas Eve service & the song is “Silent Night”, some of us in the family sing it in German - we’re not numbers enough/loud enough to disrupt the hymn, but our family can hear it & maybe a few immediately adjacent our pew. I love it. :-)
“The materials created and distributed by a third party company ... “
My dog wrote my homework ...
Will they play muzzard neck sawing tunes?
Well, I guess this is in FL since Sarasota, FL that I’m aware of. BTW, try using paragraphs if you want people to actually read a sea of words.
If Olympics and SuperBowl can only be used by those organizations, I wonder if Christians could have limitations on commercial uses of Christmas, as in “Christmas Sale”. Combining Christ with a cheap sale might be offensive to some.
I use ‘Christmas’ all year, anywhere I can insert it, especially in places that tend to say happy holidays at Christmastime, like the PO, grocery store, bank.
I say things like ‘well, that’s rarer than Christmas snow’ (I’m in South FL), or ‘I like that, I’ll take one of those for Christmas’, etc.
If you give it a bit of thought you can often work the work Christmas into daily conversation. I must say it at least 3 times a week — year round:)
Sorry about that but I was heading out the door and my sister who when I told her about the mall doing a turnaround said I better get on FR and do an updated post to my earlier thread. All I had time to do was cut and paste.
I know what you mean about the paragraphs running together thing.
If you are talking about the Donald Trump speech. . .I didn’t post it. I think it is a donation to FR Post. They interject those every once in a while.
I double checked the link on my post and it matched the story.
Sounds like they wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. Guess they found out.
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