Dan Savage reports that Cherry Knoll Elementary School in Traverse City, Michigan is removing the word 'gay' from Deck The Halls at the children's Christmas concert.
(photo: Don in gay apparel)
But can you even get The Gay and their nasty sex out of Xmas? We doubt it. As commenter Matt Bernier notes on Cherry Knoll's Facebook:
I for one support this decision, and additionally express my concern at other salacious lyrics involving homonyms the teacher may have overlooked. For instance, geeses "laying," Santa "coming" and finding out who is "naughty," and of course any instance of the word "do" or "did." Also, singing is pretty gay in and of itself, the kids probably shouldn't be doing it at all. Seriously, is the music teacher snickering middle schooler? Did he watch too much Beavis and Butthead? What in blazes is wrong with them?
Savage writes: "Please bring some attention to this issue! As far as I can find there has been no local press coverage, but you can see outrage from some community members at the school's Facebook page. Information to contact the school's administrators can be found here."
Oh come, all ye faithful...joyful and triumphant...
Posted by: Pete | December 05, 2011 at 01:09 PM
Carols originated in the 5th century-- they were compiled in book form in the 15th century.The word 'gay' only got a bad rap in the latter part of the 20th century.
So they will have to get rid of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Let your heart be gay)...better yet, maybe they should skip "Little Drummer Boy" so their asses and oxen won't have to keep time, and don't forget "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
"There'll be gay happy meetings..." and keep them the hell away from Wham's "Last Christmas." So much worse to utter the G word than, let's say, pepperspray someone who might get the last X-Box.
Posted by: sparky | December 05, 2011 at 05:21 PM