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Date Posted: 05:44:15 08/16/00 Wed
Author: Oxymoron
Subject: An Article I Read this Morning....

I found this article interesting.. .I dunno... its kinda f*cked up in a way that people are reacting this way to a simple song, such as Kum Ba Yah.... whats next? We can't mention god in simple conversation... I guess we are trying to teach children that its not alright to publically show what religion you are, because some one might get offended... isn't that like saying there is no freedom of religion?

PEACE!
Oxymoron


NORTH PORT, Fla., Aug. 14 - An 8-year-old
girl was banned from singing the campfire
favorite “Kum Ba Yah” at her day-camp after
talent show organizers said it violated their ban
on religious songs because it repeats the word
“Lord.”

SAMANTHA SCHULTZ HAD practiced the song for a
week but was banned from singing it Friday at the North
Port Boys & Girls Club talent show. Bill Sadlo, director of operations for the club, about 50 miles south of Tampa, said he was concerned parents would complain if children went home and said they heard a religious song at the nonsectarian camp. “We don’t want to take the chance of a child offending another child’s religion,” Sadlo said.
Samantha’s relatives were livid. They said club officials
should have told her in advance that she could not sing the
song. "I learned that song in Girl Scouts, not in church,” said Pam Schultz, Samantha’s mother. “It’s a campfire song, for goodness sake.” Sadlo agreed the staff should have informed the girl earlier and apologized to the family.
“We just can’t allow any religious songs,” said Randy
Bouck, the local club’s director. “You have to check your
religion at the door.”

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