'In God We Trust' goes missing

The Dallas Morning News ^ | May 20, 2006 | WFAA-TV

[Phil Harmonic]

'In God We Trust' goes missing

School plays it safe with yearbook cover photo

08:37 AM CDT on Saturday, May 20, 2006 WFAA-TV

The freedom of religion at Liberty Elementary School has gone too far for some parents at the Colleyville school.

The cover of the Keller ISD school's annual depicts the 2005 Liberty Nickel – complete with the face of Thomas Jefferson – but the words "In God We Trust" are missing.

Instead, the $16 yearbook contains a sticker with the credo and directions on how to apply it to the cover if the owner chooses.

[Blzbba]

"People who do suggest such things are seriously Un American in the highest degree."


Yeah, but they're good Christians.

[Blzbba]

"Ah. Insults."


Indeed. The hallmark of a lost argument.

[orionblamblam]

> See your tagline.

Not a single reference to priesthoods, high, low or indifferent, in my tagline. But clearly you see what you want to see.

[GovernmentShrinker]

A couple of centuries down the road, historians are going to have a field day with our period. In fact, I predict ours will be the most popular period for academic historians to specialize in, because the record of our antics will provide endless amusement. Colleges will offer gut courses on this period, which will be one long giggle-fest for the students.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Well, gee, I hope this school is sued for providing the sticker.

They probably tried to avert this by using only private donations to pay for the stickers. But they'll probably get sued anyway, for facilitating the distribution of the stickers.

[GovernmentShrinker]

This is GovernmentShrinker's plan:

CLOSE the public schools. Provide vouchers to every child, in the full amount currently spent per student by public schools. Require very minimal annual testing, by third parties with no financial interest in who passes/fails, in math and reading only, keyed to the 50th percentile of current public school performance. Register a child with any private or homeschool the parent chooses (include homeschooling by the child's own parent), and fork over the payment AFTER the child passes the test. Once a child has passed the test for the 12th grade, there should be no further testing requirement, and the voucher money should simply go to whoever the parents direct. Before you object to this testing requirement, consider that:

1) There has to be SOME accountability, and

2) With pass levels set to the 50th percentile of current public school performance, not only will 50% of the nation's students be getting a better education than they are now, but most homeschooled kids will pass the 12th grade test by the time they're 8 or 9, and their parents will never have to be bothered with testing again, and can still collect their vouchers to the tune of $15-20,000/year.

This plan would result in a huge expansion of both homeschooling and small, high quality private schools (in many cases just one homeschooling parent taking on a few additional kids besides her own).

[r9etb]

Not a single reference to priesthoods, high, low or indifferent, in my tagline. But clearly you see what you want to see.

What I see is a fellow claiming to be Protecting Science From Corruption. High Priest stuff, IOW.

You can deny and dodge all you want. However, as Mr. Emerson once put it: "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

[orionblamblam]

> What I see is a fellow claiming to be Protecting Science From Corruption.

"I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am."

You see what you wish to see.

[r9etb]

I see you for what you are.

[orionblamblam]

I see you for what you are.

[The_Macallan]

We are CONSTANTLY told by the ACLU and the rest of the radical, leftwing, PC-pushing crowd that we need to be more seeeeeensitive to people's feeeeeeelings - that the Gov't (especially public schools) shouldn't do ANYTHING that might POSSIBLY offend someone...

...that putting an American flag in your cubicle at work might hurt the feeeeeelings of a co-worker who may not like the country they live in,

...that a privately-organized gathering of high school students off campus called a "White Prom" or "White Convocation Ceremony" must be banned because it might be insensitive to other students who can freely attend their school-sanctioned "Black Prom" or "Hispanic Convocation Ceremonies",

...that Gov't funding of an artist to carve a religious statue and place it on public display might be insulting to people who have no problem when the Gov't funds an artist to carve a religious statue, cover it in elephant dung or submerge it in urine and THEN place it on public display,

...that to give out awards on the job for "Caucasian Engineer Of The Year" might possibly offend people who are nominated for the employer-sponsored "Black Engineer Of The Year" award,

...that simply including the words "God Bless America" on a 9-11 Memorial mural at school might so horribly offend even just ONE person that it must be removed no matter how many people are offended by its removal.

...that accurately portraying a US Nickle which includes the national motto "In God We Trust" on school yearbook might so irreparably harm even just ONE person that it MUST be removed no matter how many people are offended by its removal.

...that books should be banned, monuments be taken down, people be fired, history be rewritten and words be made crimes simply because someone's delicate feeeeeeelings may hurt by them.

Why are hypersensitive, hyper-offended people allowed to MANDATE changes in schools, workplaces, government and society just to placate THEIR delicate feelings - at the expense of everyone else's feelings??

WHERE is all the concern over the feeeeeelings of the MAJORITY of people who DO want to display the flag at work, who DO want to see the words "God Bless America" on a school mural and who DO want to speak and associate freely without having to bend their knee to the wishes and sensitivities of a handful of hyper-sensitive, easily-offended people?

We're being pushed towards a society bordering on "Tyranny Of The Crybabies" where we have to change our actions just to placate people who MIGHT be offended by us!

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO FORCE ME TO ACCOMODATE YOUR FRAGILE FEELINGS!!!

Look, we have so many school and workplace social workers in this country who are paid to provide "counseling" for people to cope with their personal problems - why can't we just send those FEW individuals who are so offended and traumatized at the sight of the Flag or the words "In God We Trust" at school into counseling to help them with their personal hang-ups rather than having them resort to lawsuits to ease their "suffering"?

Why can't schools send students who are so "deeply offended" at what other students do at off-campus proms into counseling to get to the root of why they are so easily offended?

Why can't employers send workers who are so insulted at awards for white engineers (but not black engineers) into "Diversity Sensitivity Training Workshops" so they will learn to become less offended and more tolerant of others races (including whites)?

It sure seems to me that those few people who are so easily offended by what others do and say are in desperate need of counseling rather than having the rest of society bend and twist to conform to THEIR delicate sensitivities.

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It's My "HOMELAND DEFENSE RIFLE"!!

[grey_whiskers]

Post 150 should be titled "The Self-Portrait of a Birdbrain"

He's a Troll, ignore him.

See my posts 86 and 120 for entertaining details.

Cheers!

[beezdotcom]

No, it wasn't. From Wikipedia:

Gospel, that.