Posted on 04/10/2022 4:05:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
“The Girls Lacrosse Team is no longer permitted to wear the Pray for Peace t-shirts at home or away events as warm up gear,” the email read. “The message conveyed by the shirts, although positive in nature and well meaning, can be interpreted as religious and political in nature.”
The school district said the shirts were too religious and too political. A double-whammy.
Parent Clare Levison said the girls offered to replace the word “pray” with the word “play.” However, that compromise was rejected.
The Roanoke Times reported that the school’s librarian was ordered to remove a display sign that featured books about Eastern Europe. The sign read, “Stand for peace.”
“Apparently, the administration of Montgomery County Public Schools wishes to remain neutral on praying, playing or even standing for peace,” Mrs. Levison wrote on her Facebook page. “
That’s why she bestowed upon the school board a special commendation: the “Insult My Intelligence Award.”
“Pray for Peace is not a religious statement that requires separation of church and state,” she wrote on Facebook. “It is one that all presidents in power, regardless of political party, reference on a regular basis.”
In February, resident Biden announced that both he and the First Lady were praying for the “brave and proud people of Ukraine.”
“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” the president said. “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable,” the president said.
Not only did resident Biden violate the school board’s edict on prayers, he also took sides in the war.
“Pray for peace is neither a religious nor political statement,” Mrs. Levison wrote. “It is a universally accepted sentiment.”
But that’s not how the school board sees the matter.
“What is the peace from?” interim superintendent Annie Whitaker told The Roanoke Times. “A war. And a war is rooted in what? It’s a political war, from people who have differing views.”
Essentially, Montgomery County Public Schools has decided to remain neutral in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
“Could someone please let the Jews know that Hitler just had a different view than they had,” Mrs. Levison wrote. “Could someone please let the Buddhists know that Pol Pot just had a different view than they had? And could someone please let the Russians who were sent to the Gulags know that Stalin just had a different view than they had?”
The people in charge of Montgomery County Public Schools are a bunch of godless, cancel culture, group think zombies. Everyone has their own truth.
I wrote about this terrible malady that has inflicted our nation’s public education system in my book, “Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation.”
The school district truly believes that Ukrainians have their version of the truth and the Russians have their version. Who are we to take sides?
As I wrote in “Culture Jihad,” right and wrong - morality - cannot exist when there is no absolute truth.
“There isn’t really a reason within a sports team to be wearing school issued uniforms that are promoting anything other than the sport,” she said. “The purpose of that sport is to play that sport.”
“When the top administrator of our county’s education system takes the stance that even peace is controversial, our moral compass hasn’t just been broken. It’s been shattered into a million tiny pieces,” Mrs. Levison wrote.
There’s only one way to facilitate a course correction in Blacksburg – every person on the school board must be removed from office and replaced with fair-minded, freedom-loving patriots.
Let’s see how neutral Montgomery County Public Schools will be when parents declare war on the school board. Pray for peace, indeed.
Roanoke, Virginia is in Roanoke County, not Montgomery County.
Vote ‘em out.
Yes it does cover the First amendment.
I bet the school board allowed “Black Lives Matter “ messaging just fine
Pray for humanity.
What if a mentally ill boy who played on the team had a ‘Don’t say Gay is Homophobic’ shirt on, would that be ok?
“Lacrosse Team Told to Remove ‘Pray for Peace’ Shirts; Too Religious & Political, Says School Board”
Didn’t realize that the School Board there SUPPORTS PUTIN.
Lacrosse Team Told to Remove ‘Pray for Peace’ Shirts; Too Religious & Political, Says School Board but I bet the school board lets gay teachers talk with 5 year olds about their sexual experiences.
Contact Montgomery County Public Schools
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org
Call: 240-740-3000
Maybe they’d prefer “Cheer for War” shirts?
The Army of Satan, like a cancer, continues to spread.
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I’m sure “Pray for Penis on the Team” would have been okay…
I thought it was tasteless, then I realized it is what we do, since the Fall. Anyone good, we wreck them. I don't know if that's what Axel was trying to say, but that's how the message was received.
I wonder how the School Board would respond to this shirt.
How timely, on Palm Sunday...hosanna today, murder on Friday.
“free exercise thereof”
the girls offered to replace the word “pray” with the word “play.” However, that compromise was rejected.
But the good news is that this situation will leave a lasting impression on many students.
...but that’s ok because it isn’t ‘religious’. /s
The problem is that the left has stepped all over theological issues under that banner of ‘irreligious’ - but there is no such thing. This notion that politics can be separated from religion is a complete red herring as any system must have law and the laws must have a moral basis. Ours have been the 10 Commandments and Judeo-Christian ethics.
Throw that away and all you will get is a war against those ideals - by definition it is the inevitable conclusion. The San Fran gay choir openly declared “we’re coming after your children” - they weren’t kidding. You MUST affirm their sexual appetites in the name of “love” otherwise you’re a bigot and your kids MUST be taught this at a young age, before evil parents can poison them with morality.
This case is nothing but a hatred for religion, pure and simple. Anything worn on a person is free speech, it doesn’t make it an official position of a public institution. Either allow anything or allow nothing, you can’t pick and choose. Kids have free speech too.
The pagan can rationalize anything in order to, above all, deny God.
Pray for Peace Shirts
Marxism will not have any of that.
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