Posted on 09/12/2014 11:04:39 PM PDT by GonzoII
CANTON, Ga. (September 11, 2014) - Students at a public high school outside Atlanta are rallying behind a teacher who says he's standing up for his Christian beliefs and what he views as his right to talk about Jesus in the classroom.
Hundreds of students poured into hallways at Sequoyah High School Tuesday, holding signs and chanting in support of history teacher John Osborne.
Osborne told WXIA-TV that he didn't feel supported by administrators, so he decided to take a few days off. He said he's talked about God at school for years.
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Gives me renewed faith in the inelegance and resilience or our youth.
Wow, excellent news. The gaystapo and atheist nutjobs will hate this! Bound to piss off Obama
I hope this is a gospel based rebellion. Dumbing down Jesus to anything less than His role as Lord and Savior to make Him more palatable to the secular world is counterproductive and grieves the Lord.
As it is, the present matrix of jurisprudence and law would make thie difficult to keep up at his level.
What would push the gospel more effective would be to have it be grassroots among students. Students who are saved should be bold to say so and should display (as much as possible, a perfect performance being impossible in this world) a heavenly demeanor. Folks, Jesus is not some mascot to give you good luck, or even everlasting fire insurance. He richly qualifies to be the All in All. Allow Him this degree of honor and He will follow through grandly.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
They are prohibiting the teacher and students’ free exercise of religion.
That’s what this originally meant. It got tortured into a prohibition on any kind of assertion of faith under public auspices.
Superficially there are arguments for doing that. We could ask what if Muslims or Satanists did this. But maybe it would be good if they did. At least it would get a dialog going. Sometimes the wolf needs to be at the door before we will believe there are wolves.
The Muslims, Satanists, Wicca, etc., are freely practicing their religions in schools - its only Christians being prohibited from practicing Christianity in schools.
Perhaps the "administration" made some suggestions. If more and more kids and teachers decided to follow their lead, perhaps we could drive out the MINORITY of people who are against such activities. We CAN take America back!
>> Gives me renewed faith in the inelegance
... although not so much faith in the efficacy of your spell checker, right doc? :-)
Taught Robert Taylor’s “Huswifery” in class on Wednesday.
Huswifery - BY Edward Taylor
Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheel complete.
Thy Holy Word my Distaff make for me.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neat
And make my Soul thy holy Spool to be.
My Conversation make to be thy Reel
And reel the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheel.
Make me thy Loom then, knit therein this Twin:
And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, wind quills:
Then weave the Web thyself. The yarn is fine.
Thine Ordinances make my Fulling Mills.
Then dye the same in Heavenly Colors Choice,
All pinkt with Varnisht Flowers of Paradise.
Then clothe therewith mine Understanding, Will,
Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory
My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill
My ways with glory and thee glorify.
Then mine apparel shall display before ye
That I am Clothed in Holy robes for glory.
The amendment states that “Congress shall not”. The reason for that was that three-fourths of the states at that time (when the amendment was written) had established religions and they did not want Congressional interference. The writers of the Constitution believed it was okay for a state to have an established religion. It’s written in the Constitution. Sort of like the right to bear arms is written into the Constitution, but liberals claim they can’t find it.
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