Filipino gays perform updated Christmas carols for Catholic Bishops
by Stephen Gray
15 December 2011, 9:55am
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/15/filipino-gays-perform-updated-christmas-carols-for-catholic-bishops/A group of rights campaigners in the Philippines has lobbied the country's Catholic Bishops Conference to stop opposing a new draft discrimination law with an unusual round of carol-singing, including Jingle Bells rewritten with a human rights theme.
Decked in reds and greens and carrying stockings, the carollers sang outside the meeting of religious officials this morning to petition them to stop opposing the part of a bill which would protect gays from discrimination in schools, workplaces and other social spaces.
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Jingle Bells was reworked:
We want you to know, that lesbians and gays/
Transgenders and bi's, have equal human rights/
Don't discriminate, we need more love, not hate/
All we want for Christmas is our equal human rights!
(Chorus)
Human rights, human rights, we want human rights!/
Lesbian, gay, transgender, bi have equal human rights!
