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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[Psalm 144]

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

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Clearly you have never read Judges, nor the words or deeds of Christ.

[aruanan]

America — a great idea, didn’t last.

Reminded me a little of a passage written from the viewpoint of a boy from Cote d'Ivoire telling about how different his life is from life in the United States. He was relating what his friend told him who had just returned after his family's furlough in the U.S.:

And he said that if you drove too fast or slow, you’d get a ticket and have to pay a fine. If you parked a little too far from the edge of the road, you had to pay a fine. If you went through a traffic light a little late, you had to pay a fine. If you spit on the sidewalk, you had to pay a fine. If you didn’t pick up your dog’s poop, you had to pay a fine. If you drank alcohol in public, you had to pay a fine. If you were sleeping in public in the wrong place, you had to pay a fine. If you got trapped outside and had to urinate and there was no place and you went against a tree or in an alley like people do here in Africa, you’d probably get arrested and have to pay a fine.

If you bought something, you had to pay a tax. If you sold something, you were supposed to collect a tax. If you had your own business, you had to pay self-employment tax. If you earned money, you had to pay income tax. He said you couldn’t just find an unoccupied piece of land and build yourself a house but that you had to draw up plans using a special person, and then get those plans approved by some kind of housing junta, and then pay someone else to build it, and then get it inspected by someone else at different stages along the way, and that you had to pay a tax at every step of the way or the government would stop you. I thought that was really bad but then he told me that every year you had to pay a property tax on your house that you owned and that if you didn’t, the government would let someone else pay the tax and then take your house away from you and give it to them. He said they even told you how many people could live in a house and sleep in a bedroom.

It seemed as though they had a rule that controlled every single thing in their lives and that people were very careful to make sure they did the right thing or were afraid to get caught doing the wrong thing.

I laughed when he told me that America was called the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[easternsky]

They have turned their backs on God.

[dps.inspect]

If they had been Koran verses, the teachers would have hailed the action as brave and “diverse”.

[Tainan]

Krispy Kreme is a cult group....Good coffee though....;)

[dps.inspect]

and kissed the enemy...

[ilovesarah2012]

And God will turn His back on America. I think He already has, which is why Obama was elected.

[rwilson99]

The pastor is only in correct by stating that the students aren’t acting rebelliously... They are... AND they should.

[mountn man]

WE The People of this country are the ones who put our "authorities" in. If they don't toe the line, we have the right to boot them out.

The American system has been a truely unique system, where the common, everyday person has a right AND a responsibility to shape our governance. To avoid confrontation of an elected official, because of "submission" is cowardace and irresponsible.

God gave you the ability AND the RESPONSIBILITY to shape our government. Thats called stewardship.

Time to step up to that responsibility. To slack off NOT ONLY affects you, but those around you.

[pallis]

It’s okay for students to worship allah, because in his guise of Satan, he is the same god liberals worship. It’s a sick world.

[skr]

If the principal said he hates Christians, he is a bigot. Can’t say much of whomever complained.

[JenB]

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Either exaggerated, or this school is out of control.

[mountn man]

Students might be compelled by law to attend school. But if another student, who is also compelled to be there, gives a gift, whatever it is, of their own volition, the receiving person is not compelled to eat it, read it or receive it. They like the giver, are of their own volition as to what they do.

To follow your logic. If I'm driving my car, I am compelled by the law to observe the speed limit, drive responsible, etc., and others are compelled to do the same. Because of those compulsions, I am forbidden to have a christian bumper sticker or fish symbol anywhere on my car.

[Raycpa]

We can resist authority when it is violation of God's Word.

Detention is hardly a violation of God's word.

[The_Reader_David]

The chocolate coulis drizzled on the donut looks like the word “Allah”! Behead the chef! /lunatic-mohammedan-mode

[narses]

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[Raycpa]

1 Peter 2:13-17 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond slaves to God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

[B4Ranch]

Why is it that our children can’t read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?

[B4Ranch]

Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed outside the building?

[Raycpa]

God gave you the ability AND the RESPONSIBILITY to shape our government. Thats called stewardship.

I fully agree but while they are the authority they should be respected and the worst thing we can teach our kids is to be disobedient to authority by our actions.