Posted on 01/15/2013 7:22:11 AM PST by Zakeet
A longtime substitute teacher in Phillipsburg, NJ, has been fired after he shared a Bible verse with a student – and upon request gave the child a Bible.
The Phillipsburg School Board voted Monday night to terminate the employment of Walter Tutka. He was accused of breaking two policies – distributing religious literature on school grounds and another policy that directs teachers to be neutral when discussing religious material.
“It’s unfortunate the Phillipsburg School District chose the path of religious hostility and intolerance against a retired man serving his community and simply responding to a student’s intellectual curiosity,” Hiram Sasser, director of litigation at Liberty Institute, told Fox News. “What’s next – are they going to ban Shakespeare because his plays have Bible quotations?”
Joe Imhof, a close friend of Tutka, was at the school board meeting.
The school board, he told Fox News, was basically telling God to “go to hell.”
“Just because this guy gave a student a pocket New Testament on his lunch hour – that’s enough to throw you out of school,” Imhof said. “They have said tonight, ‘God, we don’t want you in this school.’”
Imhof and Tutka serve together in Gideons International – a ministry known for providing Bibles to school children across the world.
“One of the Gideons in our local camp is from the Soviet Union,” Imhof said. “In most countries overseas we are allowed to go into public schools and give Bibles to students. But since this is America – you can’t do it here.”
“When the Soviet Union fells, Bibles were allowed in the schools, people could pray in the schools,” Hussey said. “It seems we have more persecution in America than they do in Russia.”
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Kick God out, but invite homesexuals in- that’s the school’s motto lately
“SALT LAKE CITY - A book about a lesbian couple raising children has returned to a Utah school district’s library shelves, amid a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union.”
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Unfortunately.
Now THAT would be a good book! Can you just imagine the turmoil it would cause in the liberal circles? I’d park my lawn chair in front of that parade.
I heard the same phrase in Sunday School, back in the olden days. The Sunday School teacher gave us an exercise that week, to put ourselves on trial for the “crime” of Christianity.
We were to examine the evidence as though we were the jury. We could not confess to the “crime.” It had to be strictly evidence based. We couldn’t add new acts to the evidence. It had to be based on things we did before the trial began.
Most of us (myself included) couldn’t come up with enough evidence for a conviction. I’ve played that little exercise many times since then, as it helps me become guilty of the charge sometimes. The more I play it, the better I get at getting convictions.
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