Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 17, 2010

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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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It is possible, with some of the polls this week, that the Republicans will control both the House (by a large majority) and the Senate (by a slight majority) in the November elections.

That is not a solution.

But that lays the basis for a Palin Tsunami in 2012 -- House, Senate, and Presidency STRONGLY going to the Republicans because people are fed up.

Pray for the Palin Tsunami

There is evidence that it is real by what has happened with candidates that backed both by TEA Party and by Sarah Palin.

Jim Miller (Alaska) and Christine O'Donnell (Delaware) are examples.

People are reacting -- just look how earlier this week Christine O'Donnell set her goals for fund raising to about $50,000. It then climbed to $250,000 ... $350,000 ... $500,000 ... $750,000 ... $1,000,000 ... $1,250,000 ... $1,500,000 and the target is $2,000,000 with about 90% raised of the $2 million.

That is since Tuesday for a candidate that some claimed did not stand a chance.

Matt 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
NIV)

Learn from these Christian students -- PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!

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Maybe we all should get on our knees and pray.

On September 11, 2001, the churches in this country were packed in the evening.

But some pastors reported that Church attendance dropped off after this spike in a few months...

Saint Paul talks about running the race to the end!

We must not quit!

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How to you write Happy birthday on a cupcake.

I would imagine they wrote on donuts that were actually things like cream filled pastries (donuts without holes).

A large cinnamon roll would have been ideal for writing a someone reasonable verse/phrase...

[Enchante]

they should have passed out packs of condoms to students and teachers

then the Principal would have given them all a Good Citizenship medal

[tutstar]

bump

[TASMANIANRED]

Sue them.

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I wrote:

How do you write Happy Birthday on a cupcake

You can do that by putting FOUR cupcakes together, and quadrupling the space for putting lettering on top.

Some stores offer cupcake cakes with lettering on them.

This would be like a 5x9 cupcake cake.

This is done so that the cake does not have to be sliced, but people just grab a cupcake...

That would be another way -- put four square donuts together...

This is not necessarily what the students did, but ideas for other people to do something like this in the future -- easily...

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Geeze, I actually can’t post my real feelings...

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They are already being sued by Liberty Counsel

I would hope that Alliance Defense Fund [legal organization] might also offer to assist Liberty Counsel.

This would be the basis for a SECOND LAWSUIT.

Read the article about the FIRST LAWSUIT PENDING.

Webpage for Alliance Defense Fund: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

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One of the reasons I had to use SARCASM as my first post...

I would have gotten in trouble with any other sort of posting...

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ping. This article might make you mad.

But I hope that some of the conservative candidates might use things like this in speeches.

If you have a way to pass along information to other conservatives, it might help...

SORRY FOR THE PING...

[Vendome]

I have a pretty creative mind and thought of all the curious ways expressing four letter words sprinkle with a few choice verbs and adjectives.

[GraceG]

There is Freedom OF religion in this country, not “Freedom FROM religion”.

Sometimes a doughnut is just a doughnut, especially if you are an godless atheist. Why the teacher couldn’t have taken the doughnut, said “thanks for the doughnut” and eat it.

And eat it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoy1QKxGQs

Idiot easily offended teacher.

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

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

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[ 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.” ]

Charge the Principal with a hate crime as he is obviously picking a bone with them.

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Your analogy is flawed, but it is also beside the point. I was merely pointing out how even more outrageous this was because the proselytizing gifts were to adults who were voluntarily there [as you would be on the public streets in your car.]

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Your analogy is flawed, but it is also beside the point. I was merely pointing out how even more outrageous this was because the proselytizing gifts were to adults who were voluntarily there [as you would be on the public streets in your car.]

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"We Ought to Obey God Rather Than Man"

And besides, the school is clearly violating the student's religious civil rights and free speech exercise. To go along would be violating the Constitution, the ultimate 'authority'/'King' of our land.

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We need to get a hold of our “schools”.
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Government schools are by definition ( that mean intrinsic to their very nature) socialist-funded, compulsory, godless, and a government owned and managed monopoly cartel.

How on earth does anyone “get a hold” of that? Huh? How is this reformable?

Simply by attending children learn to be comfortable with godlessness, socialism, government compulsion, and government ownership and management of their very lives! And...It has been this way since the first modern government schools opened in the mid-1800s to early 1900s!

( I will concede that the earliest government schools offered up a lukewarm and generic Protestantism. But....We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth! It didn't take long for them to be completely godlessly secular.)

The only rational solution is to get your own kids out of the godless government schools. Home or privately school them. And...Work to shut down the government schools and move to a complete private K-12 system of schooling.