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To: Wallace T.

What about the individuals who went to the front office of this school to complain about these men? They were parents of students at that school. Should Mrs. Martinson have ignored them? Wish you were in her place that day. Walk a mile in her shoes baby - walk a mile.


145 posted on 02/10/2007 12:05:38 AM PST by keylargoguy
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To: keylargoguy
What about the individuals who went to the front office of this school to complain about these men? They were parents of students at that school. Should Mrs. Martinson have ignored them?

Yes. Better yet, she and the school board trustees should permit the Gideons to come on the campus, and for that matter, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Seventh Day Adventist, etc., groups as they wish. All of these religions believe in voluntary persuasion and conversion, not coercion. All of these beliefs are compatible with free and representative government.

The founding fathers would be so proud of your childish bullying.

Standing up for Constitutionally protected freedoms is hardly bullying. The bullies are the people in authority who suppressed the right of the Gideons to distribute Scripture. They, and not the Gideons International nor the Alliance Defense Fund, are at fault in this matter.

As for the Founding Fathers, the fact that the Continental Congress funded the printing of Bibles would indicate that they were receptive to the distribution of Scripture. Until the leftist Warren Court concocted a doctrine of separation of church and state that effectively banned religion, specifically the Jewish and Christian faiths, from the public arena during the 1960s, the Gideons and other groups were free to enter public school campuses. I dare say the Founders would side with the Gideons International on this matter.

169 posted on 02/10/2007 11:52:26 AM PST by Wallace T.
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