No God In Classrooms

[ImWithStupid]

I'm pleasantly surprised at the outcome of this, especially in California and the 9th Circuit Federal Court...

 

Imagine No God in Our Nation?s Classrooms

 

All high school math teacher Bradley Johnson wanted to do was honor our nation?s history and religious heritage the same way he always had. For twenty five years, a red, white and blue-striped banner adorned his classroom walls with national maxims such as ?In God We Trust,? ?One Nation Under God, ? ?God Bless America,? and ?God Shed his Grace On Thee.? A second banner accompanied it, containing an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, ?All Men are Created Equal and They Are Endowed by Their Creator.?

 

 

But displaying a portion of the Declaration of Independence and other national mottos was just too offensive to the Poway Unified School District in San Diego. It ordered Johnson to remove the banners from his classroom because they ?over-emphasized? God ? one school official said it might ?offend? Muslim students. Fortunately, Johnson went to federal court to fight this absurd order (represented by the Thomas More Law Center), and even more fortunately, given that California is in the 9th Circuit, the most liberal appeals circuit in the nation, a federal judge found on February 26 that the school board?s actions violated Mr. Johnson?s constitutional rights.

 

 

Judge Roger T. Benitez did not allow the censorship because ?it has been clear for over 90 years that teachers do not lose their constitutional rights inside the schoolhouse gate, and that government may not squelch one viewpoint while favoring another.?

 

 

It turned out that the school district allowed teachers to display other posters promoting controversial political issues such as gay rights and global warming, and banners showing other religious preferences such as Tibetan prayer flags, Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi?s ?Seven Social Sins,? and John Lennon and the lyrics of his song ?Imagine,? which opens with lyrics about no heaven, no hell, and no religion. The school district just seemed to have a problem with Christian religious and American patriotic sentiments.

 

No student, parent or school administrator had ever objected to Johnson?s banners ? until January 23, 2007, when the entire school board ordered Johnson to remove the posters which ?conveyed a Judeo-Christian viewpoint."

Imagine No God in Our Nation?s Classrooms | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

 

As you can see in the part in bold, it's just one more attack on Christianity, not an attempt to protect children from controversial subjects.

[ren]

So when are they going to start burning churches.?? Oh wait they are burning churches. This is probably the only thing you will ever see TJ and I agree about.

Where's our freedom of religion? Anybody want to predict something similar to the Third Reich? I'm getting really bad vibes from this crap. I'm wondering also when hate crimes against Christians will become the norm.

[hugo]

It can be more properly labeled anti-monotheism than anti-Christian.

[atlantic]

So when are they going to start burning churches.?? Oh wait they are burning churches. This is probably the only thing you will ever see TJ and I agree about.

Where's our freedom of religion? Anybody want to predict something similar to the Third Reich? I'm getting really bad vibes from this crap. I'm wondering also when hate crimes against Christians will become the norm.

Aint gonna happen.

[hugo]

As long as there are tests there will be prayer in school.

[ren]

As long as there are tests there will be prayer in school.

LOL Amen brotha

[timesjoke]

On the larger sacle God has been eliminated from schools. Prayer used to begin every day of school, imagine if that was ever attempted these days.

 

 

Consider that during the times of America's greatest unity and prosperity was also when God was openly worshiped by almost all politicians and public officials, and even worshiped in our schools.

[emkay64]

On the larger sacle God has been eliminated from schools. Prayer used to begin every day of school, imagine if that was ever attempted these days.

 

 

Consider that during the times of America's greatest unity and prosperity was also when God was openly worshiped by almost all politicians and public officials, and even worshiped in our schools.

 

I'm not a big believer in God so it doesn't much matter to me if they take it out. However...in school I used to have to say the lords prayer before school and our national anthem. What's the big deal? People spend way too much time taking things out of the classroom....when they could be looking for ways to fortify it. Geeze...some people really like making a big deal outta nothing.

 

"In God we Trust" is something that's been a part of your heritage for years...leave it the fuk alone! There was an instance at the University a couple weeks ago about the Canadian flag hanging on campus..apparently some asshat felt it should be taken down because we aren't representing more nationalities...well...WE ARE FUKKING CANADIAN!!! If y'all don't like the institutions that unify a country please feel free to LEAVE!

 

Boy...I'm kinda yelly today...sorry lol.

[Outlaw2747]

If we are going to add God to schools and make people praise Him even if they don't believe then might as well bring Buddha, Kali, Thor, Ra, Russel's Teapot, FSM, and Ahriman to the party. Freedom of religion isn't truly being exercised when you are imposing beliefs onto others who believe in other deities or things period. I say leave the religious practices in their places of worship.

 

Now how to go about it? Don't ostracize folks for their beliefs. Everyone has a right to believe in what they want. But be fair about it.

[hugo]

The solution is school vouchers.