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High schoolers banned for Tebowing
espn ^ | 12-15-11 | Christopher Hunt

Posted on 12/15/2011 7:59:23 PM PST by lilyramone

No running in the halls -- and no Tebowing either. That's what one Long Island administration said Wednesday when it suspended a group of high school athletes for replicating Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow's popular pose in the hallway at school. Jordan Fulcoly, Wayne Drexel and brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead High School were all handed a one-day suspension Wednesday, after three days of taking a knee with their foreheads resting on their fists, the same way Tebow does in the end zone and on the sidelines. The news was first reported by Yahoo! Prep Rally earlier Thursday. Riverhead superintendent Nancy Carney said that two of the students suspensions were later rescinded, citing that administrators found that those students were not given the same warnings that the other two were. Tebow has made headlines for the move, a display of his devotion to his Christian faith. The students were not suspended for bringing religion into the school, but instead for clogging the hallway.

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KEYWORDS: timtebow; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 12/15/2011 7:59:27 PM PST by lilyramone
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To: lilyramone

sue them parents. Sue them!


2 posted on 12/15/2011 8:01:01 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: lilyramone

The commie piggies are violating the First Amendment rights of these students. The First Amendment is about Religious Freedom. Those who believe that it’s about Freedom from Religion have obviously been doing way too many recreational drugs.


3 posted on 12/15/2011 8:04:54 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: lilyramone

I’ll be interested to see how this LAWN-GUYLAND school will deal with mosleminos whipping out the prayer rug whenever they feel like it in the hallway and gumming up traffic.

My guess is they’ll be going wobbly on the rules due to ‘tolerance’.


4 posted on 12/15/2011 8:04:54 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Stop feeding the beast; if they don't say "Merry Christmas", don't buy.)
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To: lilyramone
The students were not suspended for bringing religion into the school, but instead for clogging the hallway.

That is a BS out right lie.

5 posted on 12/15/2011 8:07:25 PM PST by A message
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To: lilyramone

I assume that the school would respond the same way with the following problem: Muslim students praying in the halls.

What do y’all think?


6 posted on 12/15/2011 8:08:01 PM PST by stump56 (Freedom isn't free.)
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To: lilyramone

I wonder if there’s any mooslime kids at the school carrying prayer rugs. Probably been doing their routine unmolested.


7 posted on 12/15/2011 8:08:44 PM PST by Track9
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To: lilyramone

Wonder what their stance is on gansta poses?


8 posted on 12/15/2011 8:09:12 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: lilyramone

LIBERALISM TRULY IS A MENTAL DISORDER.


9 posted on 12/15/2011 8:09:59 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: lilyramone

Government schools do government’s bidding.


10 posted on 12/15/2011 8:10:30 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The First Amendment is about Religious Freedom. Those who believe that it’s about Freedom from Religion have

It's about both freedom from (state imposed) religion and freedom of religion.

It's not that hard to read:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

IOW, no FEDERALLY sponsored or supported church" and no banning of any other church/religion, or of religious expression.

In this case the state (school system) is banning religious expression.

11 posted on 12/15/2011 8:18:23 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: lilyramone

School Administration = last refuge for despots.


12 posted on 12/15/2011 8:19:25 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: lilyramone

They should’ve faced Mecca and banged their heads on the floor and that would’ve been acceptable.


13 posted on 12/15/2011 8:19:50 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: lilyramone

Further down the article, it reads.

“Reports said that the students had been Tebowing all week, starting Monday. It was meant to be a joke, only paying homage to one of pro football’s newest stars.”

So these kids were NOT doing it for religious reasons.

And in fact, you could argue that they are doing it to mock Tim Tebow and mocking Tebow’s beliefs.


14 posted on 12/15/2011 8:29:15 PM PST by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: stump56
I assume that the school would respond the same way with the following problem: Muslim students praying in the halls.

On the contrary. The school would detour foot traffic around the praying Muslims so as not to disturb them.

15 posted on 12/15/2011 8:42:54 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: PanzerKardinal
It was meant to be a joke, only paying homage to one of pro football’s newest stars.”

Akin, I suppose, to the knee-up pose sometimes struck by Morgan's Rum fans.

16 posted on 12/15/2011 8:45:54 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: PanzerKardinal

Agreed. That is more likely the motive, mockery rather than faith.


17 posted on 12/15/2011 9:03:17 PM PST by andrew2527
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To: lilyramone
That's what one Long Island administration said Wednesday when it suspended a group of high school athletes for replicating Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow's popular pose in the hallway at school.

Taking a knee in the middle of a school hallway while people are trying to walk probably isn't too smart. There are more appropriate places to pray or emulate Tebow or mock Tebow or whatever they were doing.
18 posted on 12/15/2011 9:04:58 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Taking a knee in the middle of a school hallway while people are trying to walk probably isn’t too smart. There are more appropriate places to pray or emulate Tebow or mock Tebow or whatever they were doing.
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So if they were really truly were praying, where would your “appropriate place” be for them to pray ?
Just curious.


19 posted on 12/15/2011 9:13:52 PM PST by simplesimon (You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own "facts"...........)
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So if they were really truly were praying, where would your “appropriate place” be for them to pray ? Just curious.

At home or in church would seem ideal. In class would be fine too, if they did it silently in their seats without disrupting the class. Kneeling down in the middle of a school hallway - presumably between classes when other students are trying to use the hallway to walk - is a dumb idea.
20 posted on 12/15/2011 9:18:53 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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