Judge Bans Religious Class

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ^ | March 21, 2009 | Rebecca S. Green

[John W]

A federal judge banned Bible trailers from an area school district, granting a request by a woman who claimed the religious education program violated her child’s civil rights.

In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Senior Judge James T. Moody agreed with the findings of Magistrate Judge Roger Cosbey and granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting Huntington County Community Schools from continuing to allow a religious education program to operate on school grounds.

In November, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the school district on behalf of a parent, identified only by her initials, of a child at Horace Mann Elementary School in Huntington.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

“Irreparable harm” indeed. There’s no such thing as values-free education, and public education is causing irreparable harm to the nation with its godless anti-American agenda.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Where there is God and purpose and morality, they create a vacuum.

They then fill that vacuum with the State and work programs and legislation.

[LuxMaker]

I am sure it was an elective class. More first amendment violations. Of course if the judge did not do this it would open up the door to have a class on the Koran and other religious books.

[nobama08]

Last month, students at Friendswood Junior High in Houston were required to attend an “Islamic Awareness” presentation during class time allotted for physical education. The presentation involved two representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a record of Islamist statements and terrorism convictions. According to students, they were taught that “there is one God, his name is Allah” and that “Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets.” Students were also taught about the Five Pillars of Islam and how to pray five times a day and wear Islamic religious garb. Parents were not notified about the presentation and it wasn’t until a number of complaints arose that school officials responded with an apologetic e-mail.

Earlier this year at Lake Brantley High School in Seminole County, Fla., speakers from the Academy for Learning Islam gave a presentation to students about “cultural diversity” that extended to a detailed discussion of the Quran and Islam. The school neither screened the ALI speakers nor notified parents. After a number of complaints, local media coverage and a subsequent investigation, the school district apologized for the inappropriate presentation, admitting that it violated the law. Subsequently, ALI was removed from the Seminole County school system’s Dividends and Speaker’s Bureau.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/11/cstillwell.DTL

It is only the Christian religion that isn’t allowed in public schools. Islam is fine.

[Abathar]

Here in Martinsville it so happens that every elementary school is located almost next door to a church, all 4 of our schools walk the kids to the church for their class.

I have three kids that have done it, one still going there in fourth grade. It’s a very nice non-denominational learning experience for the kids.

Opting out is no big deal either for parents or kids who don’t want to do it. The schools need to find a nearby business or private property within walking distance that will let the trailers be parked there for the class.

[Popman]

1.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances

Pretty clear to me.

[Abathar]

This isn’t required at all, your example with Islam evidently was.

Great pains are taken to make sure the kids and parents are fully aware that opting out is perfectly fine in bible study, in fact you have to sign up to do it or you can’t participate, not the other way around at our schools.

[Paige]

State Run Schools were set up to take children out of the Religious school setting. Read about the movement that started the public schools in cities such as Chicago, New York City, Detroit, etc. during the 1800s. These schools were designed to remove any form of religion from the schools. This is the reason so many Catholic schools began to grow. Progressives have been around a lot longer than the name they were given.

Study this, read about this, the public schools were designed to do what they are doing now and to be a public service in order to socialize the areas. Some did have good intentions to get the poor children off the streets, but at what cost? To eventually remove liberties and replace Capitalism with Socialism?

The State run schools of today are a far cry from what Ben Franklin expected:
"A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty."

[Bag]

Unbelievable stuff here, folks! Our children are ‘required’ to attend Islamic Awareness presentations but students cannot choose to attend a Christian class as an elective course! I am very upset by this and have to take a walk around the block now to blow off steam.

[pctech]

For those who thought this would never come to Indiana, guess what? It did! And it only takes one devil in the guise of a little girl or a mother to bring down our most cherished and fought for christian ideals.

God judge us..............

[little jeremiah]

Pingout tomorrow.