i think indoctrinating is more like it...
Posted on 07/13/2014 11:41:51 AM PDT by PoloSec
A High School in California has insisted that it has a right to ban the mention of God in a student’s graduation speech paradoxically claiming the Constitution gives them that power.
In July 18-year-old Brooks Hamby refused to follow the schools ban order and thanked Jesus in his speech anyway sending the school into fits of apoplexy.
A California school district says it will not apologize to a teenager who defied its orders and mentioned God in his graduation speech.
Attorneys representing the Brawley Union High School District have written a 10-page letter defending the school’s right not only to censor graduation speeches, but also to ban any speech that references God or Jesus.
“It is well established in the Ninth Circuit and California that a public school salutatorian has no constitutional right to lead a prayer or include sectarian or proselytizing content in his/her graduation speech,” reads a letter from the San Diego law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud and Romo.
The Liberty Institute has taken young Mr. Hamby’s case demanding that the school apologize for attempting to force him to eliminate mentions of God.
It appears that people really should leave California and move to the United States.
Seems to be a ban on water from the skies there in Ca.
King Barry can’t make it rain in case the leftists haven’t noticed by now. Wonder who they can ask for help? Oh they know-—yes, they know who.
Every student’s speech should be “I had a speech written but when the atheistic administration got through censoring it there was nothing but black lines left. So, all I have to say is: Go forth and prosper.”
i think indoctrinating is more like it...
(The pic is “borrowed” so I’m not real sure of it’s “origin”. Wish I knew!!)
They are a bunch of Edomites.
But being Liberal and all they can’t say the unmentionable word. Maybe they can have a chit-chat with local Indian tribe or something ....
do we have the right to ban fags and liberals?
“In July 18-year-old Brooks Hamby refused to follow the schools ban order and thanked Jesus in his speech anyway sending the school into fits of apoplexy. “
Does not the king of burgers teach us to, “be your way”?
Does tolerance not come with pickles and onions when faith is the issue? /S
To quote our President.....”So sue me!”
As luck would have it, FR:// The Faith of Our Fathers: Was the faith of the Founding Fathers deism or Christianity? From:Stand to Reason By:Greg Koukl
The phrase "Founding Fathers" is a proper noun. It refers to a specific group of men, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. There were other important players not in attendance, like Jefferson, whose thinking deeply influenced the shaping of our nation. These 55 Founding Fathers, though, made up the core.
The denominational affiliations of these men were a matter of public record. Among the delegates were 28 Episcopalians, 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 unknown, and only 3 deists--Williamson, Wilson, and Franklin--this at a time when church membership entailed a sworn public confession of biblical faith. [John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987), p. 43.]
This is a revealing tally. It shows that the members of the Constitutional Convention, the most influential group of men shaping the political foundations of our nation, were almost all Christians, 51 of 55--a full 93%. Indeed, 70% were Calvinists (the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and the Dutch Reformed), considered by some to be the most extreme and dogmatic form of Christianity.
It is impossible to separate Protestant Christianity and the Judeo-Christian Ethic from our founding. This IS a Christian nation.
Jefferson, while not a party to the Constitutional Convention, penned the Declaration of Independence, a document which goes theologically far deeper than the Constitution. However,
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-religious-beliefs
And we also know the old saw that being in church doesn’t make you Christian any more than being in a garage makes you a car.
Perhaps so, but they surely are working iniquity.
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