(/sarc)
The crucifixion of Christ is a historical fact.
He’s a bad influence. We should have portraits of obama and friends hanging in the entryways.
They should just go ahead and accelerate this crap to conclusion....let’s get it over with.
I`m making a list,
checkin it twice,
gonna find out who`s naughty and nice,
Santa Claus ain`t comin to town
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation
Sorry that you got our nutcases from Madison, WI involved in this. Apparently they didn’t find enough trouble to cause in WI.
The ACLU can go # itself. That operation does not have an objective, impartial view of the 1st Amendment evidenced by at least the recent Benghazi film assault.
The real laugh is that what is presented as “Jesus” doesn’t likely look anything like him. Especially the long hair, since Netzers (men descended directly from David) never wore long hair; it was a dishonor.
The ACLU needs to find something else to direct their hatred toward.
You must understand, this is a very powerful picture! Much like anyone casting a gaze upon Medusa is turned to stone, anyone that so much as glances at this portrayal of Jesus will immediately become Christian. The horror of it all! Take it down now!!!! (just in case </s>)
Ask the ACLU:
What did Jesus look like?
How do you know?
Since you can’t prove this is a likeness of Jesus, the picture stays!
If the school district continues to maintain that the portrait is of Jesus Christ, they are going to lose in court.
If he school district were to claim the it is a portrait of Jesus Gonzalez who was a migrant farm worker back in the 1940’s the ACLU will lose in court.
[[A portrait of Jesus that hangs prominently in an entranceway at a rural Ohio public school is in violation of the U.S. Constitution]]
Really? It’s in violation? Could someone please spell out where exatly it points out that the constitution doesn’t say that congress shall NOT infringe upon ANYONE’S right to freedom of expression? And is that portrait FORCING ANYONE to obey a religion? No? Didn’t think so- THAT is what the cosntitutuion protects against-0 The government FORCING peopel to worship agaisnt hteir will under penalty of the law if they don’t worship- A paintign hanging in a hallway is NOT FORCING anyone- or coercign anyone, to worship anyone-
When the plaintiffs can prove that the school is forcign hte students to worship under penalty of the law IF they refuse, then they have a case- until then- It woudl be really nice if the left woudl grow a friggin spine and stop whining abotu imaginary ficticious injustices-
They should put up a Mad Mo’ pic where he is wearing one of those bomb turbans with a lit fuse.
Ohio Ping
Really! I would think that this country would have many traditions that date before the 1960’s
Jesus is their enemy. It’s as simple as that. There are all sorts of religious references throughout our society. Jesus is singled out for special treatment for a reason.
Freedom From Religion Foundation: Oy vey gang and Ron Reagan
I can recall a time when they would not be so rude
FFRF board:
Ron Reagan, media commentator, describes himself in a radio ad he taped for FFRF as: “Unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.”
Richard Dawkins, probably the world’s most famous contemporary atheist and a distinguished evolutionary biologist, is Oxford professor emeritus. In his blockbuster book, The God Delusion, Dawkins writes: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.”
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments For the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and a research associate in Harvard’s psychology department, is FFRF Freethought Heroine of 2011. Goldstein is a 1996 MacArthur Fellow (the “genius” award). She has taught at Barnard and in the Columbia MFA writing program and the Rutgers philosophy department. She’s been a visiting scholar at Brandeis and at Trinity College in Hartford.
Julia Sweeney, comedian and actress, is writer/performer of the play, “Letting Go of God”: “How dare the religious use the term ‘born again.’ That truly describes freethinkers who’ve thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!”
Daniel C. Dennett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts, and author of the bestselling book about religion, Breaking the Spell. In a newspaper article about his nonbelief, Dennett once wrote: “I’ve come to realize it’s time to sound the alarm.”
Katha Pollitt, “Subject to Debate” columnist for The Nation, author and poet, has spoken out regularly and energetically as a freethinker, in such columns as “Freedom From Religion, Sí!”
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard, is author of The Blank Slate: “I never outgrew my conversion to atheist at 13.”
Oliver Sacks, M.D., the compassionate neurologist and bestselling author, describes himself as “an old Jewish atheist.”
Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, historian and author of the acclaimed Doubt: A History and The End of the Soul, told the FFRF 2009 convention audience: “If there is no god — and there isn’t — then we [humans] made up morality. And I’m very impressed.”
Edward Sorel, satiric cartoonist and irreverent illustrator who is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and whose caricatures have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, has been a Foundation member since the 1980s.
Mike Newdow is working pro bono to challenge such violations as the addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. He told the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments: “I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God. And every school morning my child is asked to stand up, face that flag, put her hand over her heart, and say that her father is wrong.”
Robert Sapolsky, a neurologist, Stanford professor and bestselling author, once suggested FFRF put up a sign at its conventions: “Welcome, hellbound atheists.”
Ernie Harburg, a retired research scientist, is president of Yip Harburg Foundation and co-author of Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz? Ernie has dedicated his retirement to furthering the lyrics, music, memory and progressive views of his freethinking father, the lyricist Yip Harburg, author of classic songs such as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and of Rhymes for the Irreverent, recently republished by FFRF.
Susan Jacoby, bestselling author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, and program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, told FFRF convention-goers in 2004: “[President] Kennedy had to speak about his religion because he was suspected of insufficient dedication to the Constitution’s separation of church and state. Today’s candidates are suspect if they display too much dedication to secular government.”
The Taliban smashing statues got nuthin on the ACLU.
A portrait of Jesus that hangs prominently in an entranceway at a rural Ohio public school is in violation of the U.S. Constitution
WHY? Read the Constitution. Its not in there............