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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[OneWingedShark]

You make a distinction without saying anything; namely “called” vs “commanded.”
This is the third time I am asking: Please define both words.

If you do not then I know that you are merely using them as synonyms and citing that they “are two different words” as an escape-hole/avoidance.

[Sun]

How about this slogan:

“Stop judicial tyrrany!”

[OneWingedShark]

>How about this slogan:
>
>“Stop judicial tyrrany!”

While I like it and agree with its sentiments, I think people would view my actions as a form of “judicial tyranny.”
For example, I would demand that the “no weapons” signs on my courthouse be taken down and *ALL* such weapon restrictions on freemen would be removed. {Consider that the the prisoner, by definition, is not a freeman; I would do this so as to be in accordance with Article 2, Sec 6 of the State Constitution.}

I would, if I could, initiate legal action against the local University for violating the rights of students/employees.visitors under this law:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html

I would also initiate, again if I could, action against the state for many of it’s Statutes concerning weapons [which you’ll see I’ve gotten worked up on this very thread over].

I would throw out ANY case that came across my desk when a police officer seized evidence w/o the authority of a warrant.
Basically I’d try my best to “be a f-ing dick” about making the state toe the line on the State Constitution.
LOL

[OneWingedShark]

Oh, I see them.

[wintertime]

Thank goodness! There is at least one other person in this world who sees that government schooling and First Amendment Rights are utterly incompatible.

It is amazing to me how many uncomprehending people simply write me off as a crazy fringe nut.

[OneWingedShark]

>Thank goodness! There is at least one other person in this world who sees that government schooling and First Amendment Rights are utterly incompatible.

It’s worse than you think; our government itself and the entire bill of rights are entirely incompatible; and they will continue to be until the people themselves view the [fundamental] relationship between the government and the Constitution in a wholly new light; which is what this post is about:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2592038/posts

[To put it in one sentence: it is the Constitution that defines the government (and the law), not the government that defines the Constitution.]

>It is amazing to me how many uncomprehending people simply write me off as a crazy fringe nut.

lol - Take a look at the few comments I’ve gotten from the above.

[LeaveAmericaNow]

““We are called to be obedient to authority, even when they are wrong.”

Fatuous b*llsh*t!

Be a man.

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Unfortunately such people have no such ability at such a stage in their life as they are still children in mind and in thought.

Hebrews 5:13 For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Such people would never dare tell their heretical simple minded pacifistic interpretations to all the parents of and survivors of the tens of millions of Christians in history who have been abused, raped, dismembered, pillaged, tortured, murdered, sexually and otherwise molested, etc. at the hands of claimed or perceived “authority” figures all over the world whether it is from some guy at the tribal level or from some suit at the UN level and anyone claiming and yielding power/authority in between.

Such heretics do not know what the concept of authority/power/slavery even means and how it comes about through men picking up weapons and claiming power over someone/group as it has been for thousands of years in various forms/groups/styles from the military overthrow method to a bloodline based method to any number of voting methods to a slavery and dictatorship method, etc

Naive children are too young and sheltered to be able or willing to face the real world, it is too cozy and warm under their covers all alone in their bedroom with the door locked lying there all alone with no one to threaten or harm them where they can easily block out all the screams of the abused all around the world while they sleep soundly.

[WorldviewDad]

My younger kids still like those dvd’s :)

[cycjec]

I’m totally at a loss for a comment on this one. I
FReeper searched on keyword “publicschools” in connection
with another topic.
Anyone ever suffered from outrage overload? I just had
a severe attack.

[cycjec]

That the teachers were the informers says quite a lot
too. This system is beyond reform. BTW one small idea
of mine for replacement, non-monopolistic instructional
alternatives is a requirement for webcams in all the
classrooms where parents are not present. Access only
to parents.

[cycjec]

This is a keeper and I’m keeping it. Glad I read through
the comments until I found it, instead of stopping early.

[topher]

TEA Party candidates need to put things like this into their speeches. It will help the November landslide.

This story and the story of the 6 year old cheerleader need to be pounded into taxpayers by the TEA Party candidates along with other themes...