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Originally Posted by lindseylatch
Liquid: I'm just curious why the student were expelled? Did they suggest the song or something? It makes no sense that they would be expelled because of a song at graduation. If you would feel better answering in a PM, please do.
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http://www.skepticfiles.org/moretext/bad-song.htm
It's not a bad article about the story and has more details than I remember. The expulsion was compulsory and completely for political show seeing that it was a graduating student that was expelled, two weeks after school had been dismissed and he'd received his diploma.
The expulsion itself was a gesture, the song had been rehearsed and prepared as part of a tradition at the school and banned by courts due a a sophomore (mind you this is SENIOR graduation) filing a suit. One student in support of his classmates stood up at the ceremony and led the students in singing the song anyway, which pretty much the entire graduating class of 500+ stood up and sang with him, the video made the news, it was pretty entertaining. IIRC the song itself wasn't necessarily religious aside from the fact that it's considered a christmas song and had the words God and Lord in it.