I am sure there are many of you who will be upset at the fact that the PC crowd does not want to teach religon. That is fine with me. Believe what you like. What really kills me though is this subtle rewriting of history by editing God out of these kinds of events.
This week a teacher was not able to teach the Declaration of Independence due to religous references contained in it? (Link was on drudge, I will provide it if anyone asks) They can't teach that the pilgrims thanked God? And the kids can't thank God themselves?
What is this country coming to?
I have to wonder if the muslim kids are told they cannot thank Allah? Or if the ban is just on the Judeo-Christian beleivers? My money is on the latter, muslims being the PC crowd's group-du-jour.
Orwell may have been right, he was just off by 20 years. Up is down, Black is white, but I do *NOT* love Big Brother.
Orwellian. Exactly -- and it has got to stop.
What that means is that a Government bureaucrat has no right to force you to practice a certain religion and that a Government bureaucrat has no right to prevent you from practicing your own religion.
The only way to stop this nonsense is to file lawsuits whenever these people violate the First Amendment.
Sure it does.
If a student brings a bible to class that, supposedly, constitutes a breach in the "wall" of separation.
Conversely, if a school denies a student the right to speak of God that also constitutes a breach of that same "wall" as well as a breach of free speech. The school is open for a law suit here.
There's also the fact that religious persecution in Europe drove many people here to practice their religions as they saw fit. Leaving that fact out of the Thanksgiving discussion is also leaving out basic facts, and that's called malpractice.
So I guess the teachers are supposed to say the Pilgrims happened to wash up on the Massachusetts coastline for whatever reason. Religious freedom had nothing to do with it? When the first kid raises his/her hand asking what a Pilgrim is, will the answer explain that they were a religious group? The whole thing is just crazy!
When will they learn...
for in Him we live and move and have our being.
God gives us every precious gift. If they don't thank Him now - will they talk to Him when the gifts are removed???
Sickening.
Idiots are educating our children.
Of course, she has started to genuflect to the statue of Lincoln in Lincoln Park. Good Republican upbringing ....
Where have you been for the last 40 years. This is the status quo mindset in most public schools.
The whole situation is littered with irony.
"You got suspended from school again! What for this time?"
"Praying."
Someone please show me how to turn the clock back, if only for a little bit. I want to go back to high school and torment the administration so more.
Thank God, I don't live in Maryland.