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Kentucky coach takes team to be baptized [Misleading title, but...]
UPI ^ | 09 07 09 | upi

Posted on 09/07/2009 9:21:06 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl

A Kentucky high school football coach used a school bus to take about 20 of his players to his church to be baptized, school officials confirmed.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: baptism; coach
This is sort of misleading, being as how it is from UPI, but I couldn't post the article from the original source due to copyright stuff. But I thought it was interesting and I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more from this case.
1 posted on 09/07/2009 9:21:06 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Phew, for a moment I thought it read “circumcised”...
2 posted on 09/07/2009 9:22:35 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

It obviously wasn’t Rick Pitino.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 9:23:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Here's a link to the original.
MOM ANGRY - SON BAPTIZED

One mom says she thought her son was going to a motivational speech at the invitation of a coach.

Other parents said they knew they sons were going to a church revival.

4 posted on 09/07/2009 9:25:16 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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I thought for sure this was going to be a Bus Plunge!
5 posted on 09/07/2009 9:25:30 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (Now with ConstructionCam! Click on my name and follow the progress.)
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To: Nachum

Man that cracked me up.


6 posted on 09/07/2009 9:25:41 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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Coffey told his mother the coach, Scott Mooney of Breckinridge County High School, never mentioned a baptism, allegedly saying only they were going to see a motivational speaker and have a free steak dinner

Hell, yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about...!

7 posted on 09/07/2009 9:26:37 PM PDT by freebilly ( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
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To: southernnorthcarolina

Wow,the things I never knew about on the net!!!


8 posted on 09/07/2009 9:27:34 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Nachum
Phew, for a moment I thought it read “circumcised”...

Wonder if Breckinridge County High School's nickname is the Game Cocks...?

9 posted on 09/07/2009 9:33:08 PM PDT by freebilly ( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
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"Nobody should push their faith on anybody else," Michelle Ammons, whose son, Robert Coffey, went along on the trip, told the newspaper.
10 posted on 09/07/2009 10:43:38 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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There would be no problem if this was a bus full of teenaged girls being taken to a Planned Parenthood facility so they could be aborted.


11 posted on 09/07/2009 10:53:25 PM PDT by Robwin
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off with his head.


12 posted on 09/08/2009 12:33:18 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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