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Christian students censored at Nashville-area school
ONE NEWS NOW.com ^ | 4/23/2009 7:00:00 AM | Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow

Posted on 04/24/2009 2:23:43 AM PDT by Cindy

The Alliance Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit on behalf of students and parents against the Wilson County School Board in Tennessee.

Lakeview Elementary School students wanted to display posters that referenced God and prayer, but school officials said they had to cover up those references before the posters could be displayed. The posters were hand-drawn by students and announced voluntary activities such as the "See You at the Pole" prayer event.

Nate Kellum is with the Alliance Defense Fund.

"Well, Christian students shouldn't be censored just for expressing their beliefs. They do not check their constitutional rights upon stepping [through] the schoolhouse gate," he points out. "And yet that seems to be the philosophy of the school district here that they are selectively censoring their speech because, in their opinion, religious speech is inappropriate."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: antichristian; christianstudents; homeschoolingisgood; leftismoncampus; publicschool; syatp; tennessee

1 posted on 04/24/2009 2:23:44 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

We need to understand this for what it is.

The “public school” is really the bus ministry of the State Church of Humanism.

Politically, their orientation is “progressive”. A mishmash of Marxist and Maoist thought. Remember, it was Chairman Mao who coined the term “Political Correctness” in his tome, “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao”. This “Little Red Book” was the handbook of the “Cultural Revolution” in China, and of the radical Left here in the United States.

Theologically, their orientation is specifically and vehemently anti-Christian and anti-”Zionist”.

Like the Unitarian Universalist Church, all other religions and religious practices are welcome within the walls of the State Church of Humanism. Only Jesus Christ, Orthodox Judaism, and the belief that the Jews have a natural right to their ancient homeland, are explicitly forbidden.

Unlike the Unitarian Universalist Church, the State Church of Humanism forbids the Bible within its walls and forbids any talk of a Creator God or even of a Prime Mover.

Take your children out of these dens of Statist indoctrination and educate them at home or in the church or synagogue school.

Do not allow these demonic, tax-funded, union-run, “progressive” indoctrination centers to corrupt your children.


2 posted on 04/24/2009 2:59:08 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Cindy

You have to sue these school boards/Administraors into the ground.
That is the only thing they understand.MONEY. While they may be “school board members/Administrators that does not mean they understand the US Constitution.


3 posted on 04/24/2009 3:18:34 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Cindy

Children should not be sent into these government indoctrination centers. When I see these parents lined up with their little children, waiting to give them a kiss and put them on the yellow school bus, it gives me such a sad, hopeless feeling. Parents must take the responsibility for finding alternative educational approaches for their children, or they will be well indoctrinated. But most parents are also...


4 posted on 04/24/2009 3:38:34 AM PDT by Old_Grouch (61 and AARP-free)
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To: Cindy

Lord, God Almighty,

Please cause all the evil doers to fall in the pit they have dug—and that speedily.

Let God arise and His enemies be scattered.


5 posted on 04/24/2009 3:56:19 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Westbrook
We need to understand this for what it is.

The “public school” is really the bus ministry of the State Church of Humanism.

Politically, their orientation is “progressive”. A mishmash of Marxist . . . thought. Remember, . . . who coined the term “Political Correctness” . . .

Theologically, their orientation is specifically and vehemently anti-Christian and anti-”Zionist”.

Like the Unitarian Universalist Church, all other religions and religious practices are welcome within the walls of the State Church of Humanism. Only Jesus Christ, Orthodox Judaism, and the belief that the Jews have a natural right to their ancient homeland, are explicitly forbidden.

Unlike the Unitarian Universalist Church, the State Church of Humanism forbids the Bible within its walls and forbids any talk of a Creator God or even of a Prime Mover.

Take your children out of these dens of Statist indoctrination and educate them at home or in the church or synagogue school.

Do not allow these demonic, tax-funded, union-run, “progressive” indoctrination centers to corrupt your children.

Quite so. Quite so. Thx.

6 posted on 04/24/2009 4:01:25 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Westbrook
Now, that conservatives and some Republicans are seeing the danger of socialism, maybe they will wrap their brains around the fact that "public schools" ARE socialism in action. Any effort to "reform" public education and make it work are doomed to failure. Socialized education can only be replaced with Freedom. Reform of socialized education will work just as well as perestroika and glasnost.

The GOP is not a serious political organization until it advocates freedom of education. Nothing less will save our country.

7 posted on 04/24/2009 4:10:07 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Obama, the American Allende.)
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To: Cindy

If the courts weren’t already so involved in dictating what goes on in schools, we wouldn’t need to be suing school districts.

School districts seem to set their rules as restrictive as possible, just to avoid the potential for a law suit. How else do you explain that we are now at the point where you can’t even mention God in school?


8 posted on 04/24/2009 4:17:23 AM PDT by Rocky (OBAMA: Succeeding where bin Laden failed.)
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To: Cindy

I think someone needs to point out to these “educators” that the success of the free industrialized wold, (the G7, excepting Japan) was founded in the freedoms initiated in Greek democracy and supplemented by the Christian faith. In general perspective, these are the guys who went on the Christian Crusades, fighting off the barbarian muslim masses.

Show me a device or a contribution made to modern man which came from the world of Islam. You can’t.

Conversely, these “educators” like Lulu DaSilva blame the white skinned , blued eyed people for the demise of todays financial markets. The fools should look at who created the wheel, who built concepts and theories of agriculture, who built inventions like the steam engine and who propelled the world through the industrial revolution to today....

You can put knowledge into a fools head, but at the end of the day, what do you have? The fool is still a fool.

Educators????

NOT!


9 posted on 04/24/2009 4:32:44 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: wardaddy

Ping


10 posted on 04/24/2009 5:00:29 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: Travis McGee; fieldmarshaldj

Lakeview in Wilson County has been sort of a battleground between forces in this war.

Many local school folks there are sympathetic but are being railroaded by state folks and other forces.

This is happening because the long arm of Nashville liberalism is reaching out into a once quiet rual area outside of Davidson cty..


11 posted on 04/24/2009 7:39:06 AM PDT by wardaddy (America, Ship of Fools)
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