baalsechel and jbaldy keep on talking about a chazzan singing “inappropriate songs”, leaving this term unexplained. I have to correct them-as I did in an earlier posting-because it is not just ‘inappropriate songs” but -very specifically- songs that are sung in ‘their temples for avoida zoroh’- this is from the mogen avrohom and fully supported by the “Be’er heitiv’ and the mishne berurah.
The term is “shirei agovim’ not just “shirei chol”. This is a crucial difference and I don’t want people to infer that just singing something that is not fully accepted can be the basis for the same halocho.