A Bible-based 'lunch club' is blocked for students, yet gender identity groups get a free pass

In the Middleton-Cross Plains School District in Middleton, Wisconsin, kids who want to be a part of a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) club have the full support of the district’s administrators.

The weekly Jesus Lunch is a longstanding tradition in the community and is hugely popular.

But if those kids or any other kids want to gather outside during school hours and have a “Jesus Lunch” — well, there’s a problem, folks.

The district superintendent and other administrators recently blocked a group of parents who were toting free lunches to a park next to the school in order to meet with high school students and talk about God.

On a section of the school district’s website that explains the activities of the Glacier Creek Middle School’s GSA club, a letter reads, “Students have also met with the high school group SAGE (Sexuality and Gender Equality) several times to get ideas for school activities and events, but also to bridge the gap between the middle school and high school experience. This year the GSA is also expanding to meet with other middle school GSAs …

“Another aspect the group has focused on is more communication about the group to the school. The GSA has written special student-read announcements to encourage membership. The club has also been developing a brochure to distribute to students regarding the GSA and its mission, and has plans for an ‘information distribution day’ where students plan to hand out ribbons, bookmarks and pencils with club information included.”

Hmm. Sounds like recruitment by a progressive, radical group. But a healthy lunch and a dose of spiritual insight outside in the fresh air, at a community park no less, are considered too dangerous.

The weekly Jesus Lunch is a longstanding tradition in the community, according to EAG News. Parents meet with students at Fireman’s Park — next to the high school — to eat a good lunch, talk about their Christian faith, and distribute Bibles.

The "Jesus Lunches" started on the high school campus with a handful of students who met their moms for lunch. It became so big over the past few years it moved off campus, according to multiple media reports.

"In the spring of 2014 … 10 students invited their friends to a free lunch and a brief spiritual talk in the open-air pavilion across from the high school," according to AllGodsPeople.com. "The group [met] for eight weeks in the fall, and eight weeks in the spring. The first week 40 students showed up, then 70; the next week, 100 students came. The five moms make all the meals, set the tables, arrange for the speakers, and clean up, every week."

The group grew to 400 to 450 students each week, representing "25 percent of the Middleton High School student body," said the same report.

District superintendent Don Johnson denies there is prejudice against the Jesus Lunch group.

School officials recently sent a letter to district parents expressing concerns about the lunches and urging parents to end the program. The letter said school officials "believe religious or political events do not have a place in our schools or on our campus, except when sponsored by a student group in accordance with our rules, which require prior approval." Or except when those events are centered around sexual identity — it seems.

District superintendent Don Johnson denies there is prejudice against the Jesus Lunch group.

"It's not as good a story as 'public schools don't like religion and they hate Jesus and they love transgender and gay people and that's not fair,'" he told LifeZette. "The issue is about our lease with the city for this park, and our understanding of that lease."

Johnson contends that the school's understanding of that lease is that there was to be no alcohol, no smoking, no loud noise, and no events at the pavilion in the park during the school day. "The Jesus Lunch folks then told us the city had issued them the permit to hold the lunches. Then the city attorney said it's a public park, and we can't tell anyone that they can't use it for whatever they want," said Johnson.

Long story short — the school district has ended its lease with the city for the park. It is now up to the city what happens there, Johnson said.

The school district has also expressed concern about the quality of the food served to students, but Phil Stamman, the Christian group's lawyer, rejected that.

"Their true motivation is clear – it's religious speech [they object to]," said Stamman, who told EAG News that school officials have tried to obtain police help to evict the parents, but they have declined to do so.

"Students are free to go a local gas station to buy food, a friend's house, McDonalds," he continued. "It's not an issue with food. The problem is the religious message and the fact that it's becoming too effective."

"Jesus Lunch has changed me," said one student. "I honestly wake up every Tuesday excited to come here. Thank you so much and God bless."

Johnson told LifeZette that the Jesus Lunch moms also came into the school several times without permission.

"They all seem like warm and positive people, but we don't allow adults to come in and sponsor events during the school day," he said.

"A GSA club does have a teacher-adviser," he said when asked. He said this is not due to state law or directives from the Board of Education, but because that's how clubs in the district work.

"To have a club, you have to have a supervisor or adviser — there needs to be an adult present," he said. One could argue that's exactly the role the Jesus Lunch adults were playing. "It can be someone from inside the school if it meets during a school day," Johnson said.

What do the kids themselves think of Jesus Lunches — something they are not required nor enticed to attend but do so of their own free will? On the group's Facebook page, one junior wrote, "Jesus Lunch has changed me. I have become close with so many people I wouldn't expect to be close with. I honestly wake up every Tuesday excited to come here. Thank you so much and God bless."

A freshman wrote, "Jesus Lunch has given me a positive environment to go to at lunch! I always look forward to the nice escape from school."

And a student named Mary posted, "It means so much to me that ... as a devoted Christian, [I] can practice my religion with like-minded, kind-hearted people."

Plato (427-348 B.C.E.)

In the Republic Plato abolishes the family for the guardians, to avoid nepotism and amassing of private wealth (Republic, bk. 5, 464). Wives and children are to be held in common by all, and no parent is to know his own child nor any child his parents–"provided it can be done" (Republic, bk. 5, 457). In the Laws Plato allows family raising for all citizens, with restrictions on child rearing and inheritance (Laws, bk. 5, sec.729). Each family is to have only one heir, to avoid subdivision of the agrarian lots into small parcels. In cases where there is more than one child, the head of the family should marry off the females and the males he must present for adoption to those citizens who have no children of their own–"priority given to personal preferences as far as possible." If too many children are being born, measures should be taken to check the increase in population; and in the opposite case, a high birth-rate can be encouraged and stimulated (Laws, bk. 5, 740). Plato devotes much attention to the education of the child as a future citizen. As such, he believes that the child belongs to the state and its education is the responsibility of the state (Republic, bk. 2, 376.) Education must be compulsory for all. State funds should pay for gymnasiums and for instructors, officials, and superintendents in charge of education, both cultural and physical (Laws, bk. 7, 764, 804, 813).

Plato is not concerned with training children for a trade but rather with giving them an education in virtue, which is to produce "a keen desire to become a perfect citizen who knows how to rule and be ruled" in turn (Laws, bk. 1, 643). Reason is man's true nature, but it has to be nurtured from childhood by irrational means. Education is thus the correct channeling of pains and pleasures (Laws, bk. 2, 653), aiming at establishing "a nature in which goodness of character has been well and truly established" so as to breed a familiarity with reason (Republic, bk. 3, 398, 401).

Prenatal and infant care. Plato recommends that the care of the soul and body of the child begin even before birth, with walks prescribed for the pregnant woman. The first five years of life see more growth than the next twenty, necessitating frequent and appropriately graduated exercise.

Storytelling and literature. Storytelling is the main tool for the formation of character in Plato's view, and begins at an earlier age than physical training. Stories should provide models for children to imitate, and as ideas taken in at an early age become indelibly fixed, the creation of fables and legends for children, true or fictional, is to be strictly supervised.

Play. Plato believes that a child's character will be formed while he or she plays. One should resort to DISCIPLINE, but not such as to humiliate the child. There should be neither a single-minded pursuit of pleasure nor an absolute avoidance of pain–not for children and not for expectant mothers (Laws, bk. 7, 792). Luxury makes a child bad-tempered and irritable; unduly savage repression drives children into subserviency and puts them at odds with the world. Children and adults should not imitate base characters when playing or acting, for fear of forming a habit that will become second nature (Republic, bk. 3, 395).

Physical education. "Physical training may take two or three years, during which nothing else can be done; for weariness and sleep are unfavorable to study. At the same time, these exercises will provide not the least important test of character" (Republic, bk. 7, 537).

Children who are sturdy enough should go to war as spectators, if one can contrive that they shall do so in safety, so that they can learn, by watching, what they will have to do themselves when they grow up (Republic, bk. 5, 466; bk. 7, 537). Girls should be trained in the same way and learn horseback riding, athletics, and fighting in armor, if only to ensure that if it ever proves necessary the women will be able to defend the children and the rest of the population left behind (Laws, bk. 7, 804-805,813).

Plato stands at the fountainhead of Western philosophy. He established its themes and posed its problems. Plato's views on education have greatly influenced educational thought to this day and have become the basis of many educational policies. Such diverse thinkers as Montaigne, JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, JOHN DEWEY, John Stuart Mill, Nietzsche, and many others owe much to Plato's direct influence. http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Pa-Re/Plato-427-348-B-C-E.html

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Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Leviticus niv

18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

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Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

Romans 1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite.

2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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