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LynnTTT

(362 posts) Mon May 27, 2013, 08:03 PM May 2013

Childrens Choir from Moore elementary school

What the h..l? I just saw a bit on CBS showing the choir singing at a Memorial service. They were singing "Jesus Loves Me"?
Very sweet and all, but what happened to seperation of church and state?

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Childrens Choir from Moore elementary school (Original Post) LynnTTT May 2013 OP

Oh, FFS. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #1

That bothered me too. JimDandy May 2013 #2

They were in the middle of an EF-5 tornado, for Pete's sake! The Velveteen Ocelot May 2013 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,701 posts)

1. Oh, FFS.

Reply to LynnTTT (Original post)

Mon May 27, 2013, 08:06 PM

May 2013

The memorial service was held at a church. I think it's OK to sing "Jesus Loves Me" in a church.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

2. That bothered me too.

Reply to LynnTTT (Original post)

Mon May 27, 2013, 10:15 PM

May 2013

Now if they had been presented as students from Moore Elementary, that would have been different. What really bothered me though was that according to the reporter, the teacher(s?) had them sing Jesus Loves Me in school during the storm. NOT acceptable, if true.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,701 posts)

3. They were in the middle of an EF-5 tornado, for Pete's sake!

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #2)

Mon May 27, 2013, 10:41 PM

May 2013

If singing "Jesus Loves Me" made the kids less scared, I really don't give a damn. I'm an agnostic and if I were hiding from an EF-5 I'd have sung the entire Bach B-Minor Mass, even if I was a government employee in a public building. I'm all in favor of the separation of church and state but there are times - and this was one of them - when I'm just not going to get all exercised about it.

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