DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Endorses an act of murder; not condonable
AFGHAN WHIGS: Potential terrorists
XTC: Promotes drug use
VIOLENT FEMMES: Encourages ladies to engage in unladylike behaviour
GORILLAZ: May actually be gorillas
BAD RELIGION: Religion should not be considered “bad” unless it is Islam maybe, or one of the weird Asian ones where they ring chimes and stuff
ANTHRAX: Potential terrorists
MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Disrespectful to evangelical Christianity. Street preachers are only very rarely manic
INXS: Excess = gluttony = deadly sin
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Not actually presidents
JESUS JONES: “Jesus” only permittable for personal names when pronounced “Hay-Zeus”
BLACK SABBATH: Actually this one is okay because nobody wants to look racist
CHICAGO: Possible Barack Obama connections
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST: The Bible doesn’t list “Quest” as one of the twelve tribes
NOFX: It seems like they’re trying to get people to say the F-word by accident and that’s not nice
THE FUGEES: Potential illegal immigrants
KANYE WEST: We’re still pissed off about that whole Taylor Swift thing
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God (or the deity or lack thereof of your choice) bless you, sir.
Queen: America rebelled against a monarchy in 1776.
Barenaked Ladies: Kids might get some wrong ideas.
Billy Idol: Promotes the idea of false gods.
Yusuf Islam: Well, duh.
Humins sure is stoopid
The student activities director for the concert is named Ken Heffner, this was bound to happen.
In all fairness, it’s not Calvin College’s fault. They didn’t want old people who donate money to them seeing “The New Pornographers at Calvin College” and thinking that they were for whatever reason producing pornography. Understandable to be a bit hesitant, though cancelling the entire show was a bit of an overreaction.
This brings me back to going to William Jewell College when it was under the auspices of the Missouri Baptist Convention. They tried to be, and mostly were, a solid liberal arts college with intelligent classes, including a Religion as Literature course where one learned that you really can’t read the Bible literally due to the way it was put together. The drama department put on “The Vagina Monologues” my senior year.
OTOH, the student body was quite conservative and certain school policies were very restrictive. School policies forbade there being an LGBT advocacy group on campus (though when I was there, there was a more generalized “All Sexualities Welcome” group), and an attempt to amend this was shot down by the student council.
Some time after I graduated I heard that the MBC withdrew funding because they felt they were getting a little too liberal. Probably for the best.
Big surprise coming from an institution named after the father of some of the worst aspects of Christianity.
CB, I can understand why they didn’t care for the name, but why book them in the first place?
New Pornography.
It’s like new math, only.. um.. more engrossing.
love the Drive-By Truckers
didn’t Anthrax actually change their name for a bit?
No, just as a joke post-9/11 the said they were considering changing the name to “Basket Full of Puppies.”
Huzzah, finally we shall be known for something other than the Michigan Militia! It’s times like this when all I can do is remind myself that at least we’re not Ohio.
I thought that said Calvin Coolidge and I was wondering if Irving Berlin got a bit too racy in the 1920s or something.
Huh. Shades of Barenaked Ladies being banned from Nathan Phillips Square, anyone?