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Friday, December 23, 2005


Sauce for the PC Festively Diverse Season...

Now, the Town of Medway, MA is under fire for banning any reference to Christmas in its annual Holiday Concert. This, along with a hideously wrong decision to call Christmas Trees Magical Trees is ludicrous, wrong headed, and sweet payback for the rest of the bowdlerization, sanitation and BS that passes for politically correct or diverse these days.

If, as in Newton this year, we were not allowed to dress in costume, offer Mars Bars and Candy Corn to our lord Zool, and chant our holy Trick or Treat prayer, why should Christmas be acknowledged in Milton?

The Medway Middle School ordered children not to sing any religious songs in Friday's holiday concert. Students were also told to refer to Christmas trees as magical trees. Red hats have also been banned.

The move comes after two parents complained about references to Christmas in the program.

The Superintendent Richard Grandmont told the Milford Daily News that the town is embracing diversity.

Diversity? Sounds like homogenization and blandness to me. What exactly is diverse about removing any and all reference to any and all diversity, and replacing it all with uniformity and blandness?

Diversity is about enjoying latkes and haldiram rasgulla, fruitcakes and ambrosia, Christmas Trees, Menorahs and Kinaras. OK, not fruitcakes...

But one parent said he's disturbed that students can't sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Instead, they have to sing "We Wish You A Swinging Holiday"

Yeah, baby...And a boogie-woogie New Year! One parent? That's all? I would hope that it might have been all but one parent, that parent being the dunderhead who complained in the first place. What's wrong with a holiday medley? "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," "Have a Holly, Jolly Diwali," "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel." Sorry goyim... You got fruitcake, we got Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel.

[An Aside: Why is it that the world's oldest continuously running monotheistic religion has come up with only one song, and one of the worst songs of all time, for their holiday? Perhaps some dig the Dada/minimalist construction where the verse is the chorus and the chorus is the verse and second verse is same as the first... but I digress from my Aside. Well, ok, more than one song, but Adam Sandler's Chanukah Song and Sarah Silverman's Give The Jew Girl Toys don't really seem like middle school choral group material. With the president of ASCAP, Doc Pomus, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein all being M.O.T., all we get is "Dreidel dreidel dreidel, I made it out of clay and when it's dry and ready then dreidel I will play, Oh...D.C. al Coda?" Y'know what, all the dreidels I've ever seen are made out of plastic or wood. I've never seen a freakin' clay dreidel - I think they've got it confused with fruitcake.]

People, its just not that hard. I'm the first guy to complain when some knuckleheaded or obnoxious chaplain invokes our lord and savior, Jesus Christ at a public gathering where Mr. Christ is neither everyone's lord nor savior. Understand, I don't want to be included in a collective prayer to a specific god, unless he or she is the one that I worship.

On the other hand, how can a Christmas Tree suddenly become a Magical Tree? It has been, and always will be a symbol of Christmas. Unlike Intelligent Design, this is plain and simple fact. Hey, are we now going to call the menorah a Magical Lamp? No, it is, and always has been, a symbol of Chanukah. Calling it one does not make you a Jew. Hi Kwanzaa guy, I really love your magical hat. How can the same people who want Harry Potter banned from the public library live with this?

So, can we get together on this and accept the difference between signs and symbols of diversity, and imposing our beliefs (or non-beliefs) on others? I want you to have a Merry Christmas, if you want to have one. I will be pleased to have a Happy Chanukah and would be happy to receive your wishes for me to have one. And the same for Diwali, and the same for Kwanzaa, and the same for anyone else celebrating anything else around now who has been too meek, or perhaps too smart, to pipe up. I celebrate your celebration - will you celebrate mine? That's embracing diversity.

However, in keeping with the niceties that we have enjoyed from time immemorial, and best illustrated by the practice of saying "Oh what a beautiful baby," unless we have been told or have determined after close personal inspection the sex of the child, let us continue to wish each other a "Happy Holiday" or "Season's Greetings" when we pass each other as strangers at Walmart. To do otherwise, as with the baby, is presumptuous, at best.

No matter how many times you tell me, I'm just not going to have a Merry Christmas, and no matter how many times I tell you, you're never going to be able to say Chanukah correctly.

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