Let Us All Turn in Our Hymnals to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

Can you sing hymns in school? Nope. Is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" a hymn? Apparently:

Wilmington, N.C. — "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" caused a stir at a New Hanover County school. A parent complained about the song's religious reference and got it pulled from her child's kindergarten Christmas show at Murrayville Elementary School.

The song was pulled “because it had the word Christmas in it,” said Rick Holliday, assistant school superintendent.

A Jewish mother, who didn't want her name published, objected to what she called "religious overtones" in the song. So the principal agreed to pull it from the program.

School administrators said they were then flooded with complaints from other angry parents.

“I would say it's not a very religious song. It's about Santa Claus,” parent Anne Vanslyke said.

School board members, administrators and attorneys listened closely to the song's lyrics and decided the song was secular.

“Rudolph is a secular song. It was about a flying reindeer, not a religious symbol,” Holliday said.

Many parents shouted out with glee when they heard the song was back in the program.

The school administrators deserve a lump of coal in their stockings for being so stupid they had to "listen closely to the song's lyrics" in order to determined that it was secular. Any 4th grader could have told them what the song was about.

They probably have red noses too, but only after a weekend bender.