Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 17, 2010

[topher]

Friday September 17, 2010

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Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses

ROSWELL, New Mexico, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Mexico School principal has penalized three Christian students with suspensions for giving fresh Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible verses to each of their teachers, according to the public advocacy group Liberty Counsel.

This school is already named in a pending lawsuit filed by Liberty Counsel on behalf of families and students who were bullied, and one suspended, for exercising their freedom of religion by distributing abstinence wristbands and plastic models of babies at 12 weeks gestation to bring attention to the life of unborn children in the womb.

According to Liberty Counsel, about 25 Christian students in the group, Relentless in Roswell, decided to express appreciation for their teachers by giving them doughnuts. Since the closest Krispy Kreme shop was in Texas, some of them drove almost six hours round trip, stayed overnight, got up at 3:00 a.m. filled their car’s back seat with fresh doughnuts, and got back to school on time to deliver the doughnuts.

But when the doughnuts were passed out, they included a scripture verse as well. For that, one student was immediately sent home, and two others were forced to spend a Saturday morning sitting alone in the classroom for four hours as a punishment.

"Our motives were not rebellious,” Pastor Troy Smothermon said of the Christian youth group, with which his church is affiliated. “If they were, we would have just bought a box of doughnuts down the street. The whole purpose was to encourage those in the school.”

He added, “We are challenging the constitutionality, but our motive here was to love. Faith without works is dead. We want them to know that we love them and that Christ loves them."

The Christian group has also handed out sandwiches, hot chocolate, and candy canes in the past to the student body and faculty. Some also distributed rocks with affirming words like "U are wonderful' painted on one side and "Psalm 139" on the other, as part of their ministry.

However, Liberty Counsel says that things came to a head when Relentless in Roswell decided to hand out plastic models of unborn babies. The incident, they said, ended up saving the life of a student who said she had planned to commit suicide because of the guilt she felt over her abortion. Liberty Counsel says that when she received a model baby with the scripture "you are fearfully and wonderfully made" she cried and prayed with the students.

However students were afterwards pulled out of class and instructed by Principal Ruben Bolaños to cease their "Christian" acts because they had made their point. He is alleged to have said, "I don’t like Christians. All they do is smile at you and then stab you in the back."

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, commented that given conditions in schools today, to suspend the Christian students is an absurdity.

"Some teachers are worried about their students giving them bullets, and this school suspends students over a Bible verse! These students are living their Christian beliefs by showing kindness,” said Staver. “It is outrageous that the Roswell school officials are mean to these students solely because they are hostile to their Christian faith."

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[topher]

[ /sarcasm on}

These students are obviously terrorists and must be dealt with harshly. However, if they quoted the KORAN, it would not have been Terrorism.

[ /sarcasm off]

[ I hope it is evident that I am being very, very sarcastic ]

[svcw]

Four hours detention........why did the parent even allow their kids to show up. I would have told the school to frell off.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Fire the principal

Get rid of the school board that hired

That’s the only way to deal with these MFers

[the invisib1e hand]

even bible verses wouldn’t make a Krispy Kreme donut edible.

[topher]

This shows such a sorry state our schools are in that I don't know if this also be posted under Breaking News or Political Humor here on FreeRepublic.com

This story, in conjunction with story of the 6 year old girl booted from a cheer leading squad because of a vulgar cheer, shows how bad things are.

This other story is about a cheer about booty and how the parents of the 6 year old objected to it. The solution was to throw the 6 year old girl off the cheer leading squad... That story was in Michigan.

Heaven Help Us, Please!

[LostInBayport]

But middle school students in Wellesley Mass. participating in a muslim prayer ceremony? No problem.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Extra credit” though if you bring your teacher a Koran. We need to get a hold of our “schools”. The commies are out of control and destroying the minds of our children.

[topher]

Since this is New Mexico, maybe they are afraid this might be a bad influence on the illegal alien students. After all, everyone knows that illegal aliens have more rights than Americans in America. [ /sarcasm off ]

[SkyDancer]

But if there were verses from the Koran on them ....then ...

[the invisib1e hand]

Well, it is Roswell, after all.

[presently no screen name]

fyi....

A New Mexico School principal has penalized three Christian students with suspensions for giving fresh Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible verses to each of their teachers, according to the public advocacy group Liberty Counsel.

[Clint Williams]

America — a great idea, didn’t last.

[OneWingedShark]

NM Ping!

Looks like a clear violation of our State Constitution:

Art II, Sec. 11. [Freedom of religion.]

Every man shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no person shall ever be molested or denied any civil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinion or mode of religious worship. No person shall be required to attend any place of worship or support any religious sect or denomination; nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.

[topher]

You wrote:

Four hours detention........why did the parent even allow their kids to show up. I would have told the school to frell off.

As a Christian [Roman Catholic], I would have used the four hours in silent prayer. Or studying something I needed to.

Christians believe that when you are persecuted in the name of Jesus, you will be rewarded for that persecution.

But there are a couple of legal organizations that can now file additional charges against this school board...

[presently no screen name]

But if there were verses from the Koran on them ....then .

TOLERANCE would be in full force!

[svcw]

That is true enough but as a parent I would not have let it happen. They kids did nothing wrong.

[highlander_UW]

How dare they give teachers donuts?!! Can't they see how offensive donuts are?!

[Balding_Eagle]

America — a great idea, didn’t last.

I thank God every day that better, stronger, wiser men than you were sent to Normandy.

[Sun]

How cruel of the teacher(s) to turn the kids in. The teachers are both cruel and ignorant.

[Brilliant]

The idiots who run the schools do not know about the Constitution. It’s not the students who are banned from religious activity, but the school. In short, it is the school who is violating the law.