Parents outraged over finance class reading (NH Conservative Parents Push Back, Liberal Freak Out)

The Union Leader ^ | 12/6/2010 | GREG KWASNIK

[Article10]

BEDFORD – The parents of a Bedford teen are calling for the ouster of school officials who assigned their son a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist."

"We had almost PhD people letting this fumble through their fingers, and they all said it was grand," said Dennis Taylor, a conservative Christian. "I think there should be a review of these individuals and perhaps some firing done."

[snowmaiden]

Thanks for the context.

The author is not referring to Jesus as a wine guzzling whatever the rest of the quote is. She’s making a fairly frequently made comment that church people are focused on religion while ignoring the poor.

That view is inaccurate, but she didn’t slur Jesus.

[Past Your Eyes]

Thanks for that ping, sneakers. Can’t believe I missed that in my own paper but I did. Was a bit hurried this morning and just skimmed.

[eeevil conservative]

if anyone in the school was sincerely interested in teaching these students how not to be poor, they could merely use the facts....

How Not to be Poor

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba428

[Aglooka]

The NH school system is loaded with all kinds of far-far-far-left wackos. (I know. I went through it).

These “teachers” do not speak for the entire state or even the town of Bedford. Most people up here are likely appaulled at their behavior.

[who knows what evil?]

Spend some time reading the comments under the article at the Union Leader website; then keep in mind that these are the people that get first crack at the GOP Presidential nominee during their 'open primary' in 2012. They register as 'independents'; then vote for the worse possible Republican candidate. They voted McCain; we wound up with Obama.

Thanks, NH. We need to CLOSE the NH primary, and move it a few months down the schedule...NH is NOT a conservative state.

[who knows what evil?]

You have to wonder if Gribble and his gang of killers ever spent any time in the Bedford school system. You know the guys...the one that butchered the woman and her daughter with machetes in Mont Vernon last year...

[The Comedian]

Thanks, NH. We need to CLOSE the NH primary, and move it a few months down the schedule...NH is NOT a conservative state.

Speaking of which, where has the RNC been for the last two years in the effort to close the primaries?

Where's Michael Steele's public announcement that the RNC is closing the primaries? Actually, where the hell is Michael Steele, period?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[who knows what evil?]

I learned a few things from the comments at the Union Leader's website...I knew there were a variety of Bibles out there...King James, New International Version, and so forth...but apparently Marvel Comics or some other comic publisher has released a version for the younger crowd. Think I'm kidding? Here it is...straight from the comments...

In Matthew 10:32-33, Jesus said, "Stand up for me against world opinion and I'll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I'll cover for you?"

WTF? "turn tail..?" ROTFLMAO!!!

[who knows what evil?]

Say...do school libraries in New Hampshire offer the best-selling book of all time to the students? Just curious...

[who knows what evil?]

I think the Old Man of the Mountain knew this was coming so he decided to check out early... Oh, how I long for the early days...

The few conservatives remaining in this socialist hellhole always joke about the 'Old Man' committing suicide...the old story has it that the 'Old Man' was a sign hung out by G-d to indicate that here in NH He made men. He quit making men in New Hampshire a while back, so He took down His sign...

[Clintonfatigued]

” The parents of a Bedford teen are calling for the ouster of school officials who assigned their son a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.” “

We all see who has found the best reason to homeschool to date? Have I found the one that tops all the others?

[krb]

>"wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist."

At least "socialist" is seen as somewhat negative in that light. right?

[little jeremiah]

Wow. I saw the headline of this article but had no idea.

Tomorrow pingout.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping!

Freepmail wagglebee to subscribe or unsubscribe from the moral absolutes ping list.

FreeRepublic moral absolutes keyword search
[ Add keyword moral absolutes to flag FR articles to this ping list ]

This is what public schools are for. To degrade the minds of the young, turn them into atheist, leftist, homosexualists (either practicing or pro-agenda) sluts. Maybe some aren't so bad (yet), just wait.

[Grizzled Bear]

Beheadings to begin in 10, 9, 8...

What’s that? Oh?

It wasn’t insulting Islam?

Never mind.

[April Lexington]

Ahyeup!

[Gene Eric]

>> More and more I’m feeling there is only one solution to this conflict.

Years of apathy and complacency is the problem. Whatever solution you’re referring to will not be rendered by the indolence that ceded to the parasitic influence of Leftism.

The Country is still awakening.

[MWestMom]

The parents of a Bedford teen are calling for the ouster of school officials who assigned their son a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.”

---

Oopsy! That’s not gonna fly.

[who knows what evil?]

Wow. I saw the headline of this article but had no idea.

That headline was a bit deceiving, wasn't it? Guess they didn't want to bring any attention to the situation...especially from those pesky Christians...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Here’s the quote in context, courtesy of Google:

Thanks for posting. I read a couple pages--that book should be banned simply for being mind-numbing drivel. I re-read it to see if I was being dense and concluded no, I wasn't--the passage was just really bad.