I'm still reeling from the shock. Southland shopping centre (melbourne) has one of the most beautiful christmas trees i've ever seen in a mall. And next to it ....the nativity...the old fashioned one that we know, if anyone can remember! The baby in a manger and mary and joseph and i think a couple of lambs thrown in too.
Can't help but wonder how long it will be allowed to sta:y there. 
i'll get some photos next time.
Has anyone else seen non pc decorations?
@bushies.girl wrote:I actually find stalker's nativity post quite offensive 😞
I don't find it offensive at all - I think it is funny....and I remember a few priests who would think it was clever (especially the camel as one was a serial smoker).
And speaking of getting names wrong....
I also remember reading something years ago about a child explaining to his mother he was in the school nativity play. (I'll bet it was a paragraph sent in to Reader's Digest). "I'm playing one of the three wise men, and I carry the frankenstein!" 
"and I remember a few priests who would think it was clever (especially the camel as one was a serial smoker")
@imastawka wrote:I find it offensive that you can't spell my name.
Here, this one should be more offensive for you - being a non-drinker
LOL
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:@Bushie' girl wrote: I have and on more than one occasion
You surprise me. What sort of things did they say?
"Yesterday I visited my local shopping cenre and was outraged to discover they had put up a nativity scene"
"I shall be boycotting **** store from now on. I was in there yesterday and they were aactually playing Christmas Carols."
There' is a sign saying Merry Hhristmas " in my local mall. I find it offensive as I am a Muslim/Hindu/ Budhist/Jehovah's Witness."
People don't always put it into words (though some do) but believe me, the offence is out there.
I used to teach. I got told off plenty of times by parents for offending. Sometimes I didn't even know I had.
First time was when I had children colouring in the Australian flag & learning about the different parts of it. That offended jehovah's witnesses. I had not realised they can't touch flags.
Next, I had children using a computer program about gold rush era (supplied & loaded on by the school) and one mother complained as one of the gold rush men in it had a gun. She also rang up to complain about me when the kids learnt a song that had the word hunter in it.
I got into trouble once for reading a fairy tale type story to the class that featured a witch. The school never touched Halloween of course but you'd be surprised how many books have witches.
Then Christmas. We weren't allowed to mention any of the religious background to Easter/Christmas, even though we were expected to read books about Eid at the appropriate times as part of a general studies push. But several muslim families still chose to wirthdraw their kids from school from early December so they could not be exposed to any Christmas activities such as making decorations etc
And don't get me going about the complaint I had after drawing a cartoon pig (3 little pigs) on the board when we were studying fairy tales (and spelling) in an infant class. Apparently you are not allowed to show photos of pigs, even if you're studying farming.
It's easy to offend over just about anything.
