Tuesday, December 07, 2004
REWRITING CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Being politically correct trumps witnessing to Jesus Christ in the thinking of a teacher at a school in Rome.
The middle-school teacher in the town of Como set off a storm when she told Muslims in her class that if they preferred they could replace the line "this is the day of Jesus" with "this is the day of virtue".
Interestingly enough, the article indicates the children chose to keep the original lyrics.