{"id":5369,"date":"2010-12-10T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/12\/silent-plight-complaints-put-halt-to-christmas-carols.html"},"modified":"2010-12-10T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:52:43","slug":"silent-plight-complaints-put-halt-to-christmas-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/12\/silent-plight-complaints-put-halt-to-christmas-carols.html","title":{"rendered":"Silent plight: complaints put halt to Christmas carols"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems the familiar tunes chiming from one university’s clock tower weren’t “inclusive” enough.<\/p>\n

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\nThe clock tower at Southern Illinois University has played Christmas carols for nearly 15 years. But this year, someone complained, leading university officials to briefly silence the holiday tradition until they could add a more diverse selection of music.<\/p>\n

“We got a complaint about not being inclusive in the music,” university chancellor Rita Cheng told Fox News Radio<\/p>\n

She backed off comments she made to a local television station that claimed the music was indeed removed because it was “religious” and “offensive to non-Christians.”<\/p>\n

“No one really complained about it being religious,” she told Fox News Radio. “They asked that their religion also be reflected in the music.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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