Petition to Allow Wausau West Master Singers to Sing

I definitely support performing the best of the core repertoire in concert, be it secular or sacred.

I think there are a lot of open questions here with the press I've read on this decision. What constitutes "religious" music? Is a piece sung in Latin too religious? How about "Here Comes Santa Claus" or "O Christmas Tree" (neither of which are 'religious' songs but deal with a 'religious' holiday)?

Also where did the "5 to 1" ratio come from, and why is it so lopsided (when many concerts don't even have a single group performing 5 songs of any genre)?

One last comment - it seems a lot of people are blaming the school board - from what I've read as an outsider, they had nothing to do with this and were caught as broadsided with this as anyone else. Sounds like any blame here is squarely with the administration.