Posted on 06/13/2016 9:00:16 AM PDT by rochester
A Bible-based 'lunch club' is blocked for students, yet gender identity groups get a free pass
by Deirdre Reilly
In the Middleton-Cross Plains School District in Middleton, Wisconsin, kids who want to be a part of a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) club have the full support of the district’s administrators.
The weekly Jesus Lunch is a longstanding tradition in the community and is hugely popular.
But if those kids or any other kids want to gather outside during school hours and have a “Jesus Lunch” — well, there’s a problem, folks.
The district superintendent and other administrators recently blocked a group of parents who were toting free lunches to a park next to the school in order to meet with high school students and talk about God.
So Jesus is out. LGBT is in. Simple.
On a section of the school district’s website that explains the activities of the Glacier Creek Middle School’s GSA club, a letter reads, “Students have also met with the high school group SAGE (Sexuality and Gender Equality) several times to get ideas for school activities and events, but also to bridge the gap between the middle school and high school experience. This year the GSA is also expanding to meet with other middle school GSAs …
“Another aspect the group has focused on is more communication about the group to the school. The GSA has written special student-read announcements to encourage membership. The club has also been developing a brochure to distribute to students regarding the GSA and its mission, and has plans for an ‘information distribution day’ where students plan to hand out ribbons, bookmarks and pencils with club information included.”
Hmm. Sounds like recruitment by a progressive, radical group. But a healthy lunch and a dose of spiritual insight outside in the fresh air, at a community park no less, are considered too dangerous.
The weekly Jesus Lunch is a longstanding tradition in the community, according to EAG News. Parents meet with students at Fireman’s Park — next to the high school — to eat a good lunch, talk about their Christian faith, and distribute Bibles.
The "Jesus Lunches" started on the high school campus with a handful of students who met their moms for lunch. It became so big over the past few years it moved off campus, according to multiple media reports.
"In the spring of 2014 … 10 students invited their friends to a free lunch and a brief spiritual talk in the open-air pavilion across from the high school," according to AllGodsPeople.com. "The group [met] for eight weeks in the fall, and eight weeks in the spring. The first week 40 students showed up, then 70; the next week, 100 students came. The five moms make all the meals, set the tables, arrange for the speakers, and clean up, every week."
The group grew to 400 to 450 students each week, representing "25 percent of the Middleton High School student body," said the same report.
District superintendent Don Johnson denies there is prejudice against the Jesus Lunch group.
School officials recently sent a letter to district parents expressing concerns about the lunches and urging parents to end the program. The letter said school officials "believe religious or political events do not have a place in our schools or on our campus, except when sponsored by a student group in accordance with our rules, which require prior approval." Or except when those events are centered around sexual identity — it seems.
District superintendent Don Johnson denies there is prejudice against the Jesus Lunch group.
"It's not as good a story as 'public schools don't like religion and they hate Jesus and they love transgender and gay people and that's not fair,'" he told LifeZette. "The issue is about our lease with the city for this park, and our understanding of that lease."
Johnson contends that the school's understanding of that lease is that there was to be no alcohol, no smoking, no loud noise, and no events at the pavilion in the park during the school day. "The Jesus Lunch folks then told us the city had issued them the permit to hold the lunches. Then the city attorney said it's a public park, and we can't tell anyone that they can't use it for whatever they want," said Johnson.
Long story short — the school district has ended its lease with the city for the park. It is now up to the city what happens there, Johnson said.
The school district has also expressed concern about the quality of the food served to students, but Phil Stamman, the Christian group's lawyer, rejected that.
"Their true motivation is clear – it's religious speech [they object to]," said Stamman, who told EAG News that school officials have tried to obtain police help to evict the parents, but they have declined to do so.
"Students are free to go a local gas station to buy food, a friend's house, McDonalds," he continued. "It's not an issue with food. The problem is the religious message and the fact that it's becoming too effective."
"Jesus Lunch has changed me," said one student. "I honestly wake up every Tuesday excited to come here. Thank you so much and God bless."
Johnson told LifeZette that the Jesus Lunch moms also came into the school several times without permission.
"They all seem like warm and positive people, but we don't allow adults to come in and sponsor events during the school day," he said.
Unless, of course — the club is a GSA organization.
"A GSA club does have a teacher-adviser," he said when asked. He said this is not due to state law or directives from the Board of Education, but because that's how clubs in the district work.
"To have a club, you have to have a supervisor or adviser — there needs to be an adult present," he said. One could argue that's exactly the role the Jesus Lunch adults were playing. "It can be someone from inside the school if it meets during a school day," Johnson said.
What do the kids themselves think of Jesus Lunches — something they are not required nor enticed to attend but do so of their own free will? On the group's Facebook page, one junior wrote, "Jesus Lunch has changed me. I have become close with so many people I wouldn't expect to be close with. I honestly wake up every Tuesday excited to come here. Thank you so much and God bless."
A freshman wrote, "Jesus Lunch has given me a positive environment to go to at lunch! I always look forward to the nice escape from school."
And a student named Mary posted, "It means so much to me that ... as a devoted Christian, [I] can practice my religion with like-minded, kind-hearted people."
The Left wages a war on Christianity that it will never wage on Islam.
And it lectures us about not pointing the finger at people’s religion.
But that’s exactly what they do every day of the year.
I know what you mean. If; heaven forbid the islamists do manager to take over, guess who will be on the chopping block first.
Close down the Federal Dept of Education...
Give responsibility of education BACK to the individual states...
Abolish teacher’s unions...
Have all schools superintendents elected for the position instead of appointed...
And America is sick and being controlled by evil.
It appears to me that Islam takes a higher place than gays to liberals in America these days.
Interesting how the Homosexual community went from seeking “tolerance” a few short years ago to attaining “protected” even “superior” status.
America has become a sick, depraved nation. A nation that embraces evil and spits on decency.
And they now are promoting intolerance of Christianity.
Satan’s minions are a bunch tacky jack-a$$es.
It’s time we did that. We all will read this story and get huffy and there is nothing any of us can do about it. We do not live in that district. Our child does not attend one of those schools.
But nonsense like this is happening in our own towns as we speak. The enemies of our values are close by.
Thus, it is of pivotal importance to educate yourself as to who is your enemy and who is your compatriot, not on a grand scale but in the immediate, on a local scale.
Simply put: begin making a list of those in your immediate sphere who are threats to our liberty and our freedoms. Make note of those would would destroy our Nation so as to further their hateful agenda.
Elected officials in your town.
Principals.
Teachers.
Police chiefs.
Police officers.
Anyone who has influence and who acts to subvert our values must be identified now, not later.
Yes it’s as you say. We’re paying for it daily too, all of us.
Get hold of
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about gay marriage isn’t about gay marriage.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about homosexuality isn’t about homosexuality.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about teen sexuality isn’t about teen sex.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about promiscuity and marital infidelity isn’t about promiscuity.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about no-fault divorce isn’t about divorce.
The NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about transgender bathrooms isn’t about transgender bathrooms.
And the NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about adult-child sexuality isn’t about pederasty or pedophilia.
The Utopian “progressive” left seeks to replace God with man (or SOME VERY “SPECIAL” MEN!), and God’s universe with one of man’s design.
The “progressive” left seeks to abolish God’s creation of sex, gender, and sexuality.
In another area, the “progressive” left seeks to convince us that man alone controls the universe. When the left claims that man causes climate change and man causes earthquakes (by fracking, water injection, etc.), the “progressive” left is seeking to eliminate God.
“Progressive” leftists believe, or claim to believe, that a junta of wise men – made so by birth to the “right” parents or educated in the “right” universities – can perfect the world. Think utopia or heaven on earth.
To achieve their goal, the “progressive” left must destroy God in the minds of the men they seek to rule.
Ironically, it was the agnostic, humanist, Darwinist commentator H.L.Mencken who summarized the goal of the “progressive” left in these 16 words:
“The urge to save humanity is most often a false front for the urge to rule.”
Taking their cue from George Orwell, they call themselves “progressives”, hoping that the uninformed and ignorant among us would be fooled by this gaggle of Utopian fools who seek to drag us to another of the command societies that have always failed.
Do you remember back to the 2008 “election” when the arch “progressive” Obama declared that he would “transform America”? At the time I and many others asked to what would we wish to “transform” – in other words “PROGRESS” – a nation based on these words?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
After nearly 8 years of a “progressive” leftist in the White House, we have our answer: We have been transformed BACKWARD (regressed) from the truths of the Declaration and a “Creator” honoring people to a nation of soon to be slaves ruled by elitist Utopians who, by virtue of their “superiority”, know far better how we should live our lives than we do.
The vernacular for that is TOTALITARIANISM!
There is no room for a “Creator” in such a system.
There is also NO ROOM FOR “..LIFE, LIBERTY OR ...HAPPINESS”.
(Fairness dictates that I confess that the idea for the lamentable litany at the top of this piece was shamelessly “stolen” – with his permission – from fellow Freeper mbarker12474.)
These are the Days of Lot.
that's always been their endgame. well, actually, sending people they disagree with off to concentration camps for thought crimes is their endgame, but this is the roadmap they've always been following.
3 generations of ceding control of the culture (hollyweird, madison avenue, music) to the cultural marxists and ceding control of the public education of our children to the cultural marxists can only end in what we have now... moral relativism on steroids.
This is not the department of education these are local administrators, principals, and teacher, your neighbors doing all this leftist crap. The communist are not just in Washington, they live next door and they are spreading their misery far and wide. Your school board is the only thing that can control these barbarians.
That’s exactly why I went from the Dept of Education all the way down to local school superintendents...
Get rid of the teacher’s unions and you can get rid of puke teachers and get real educators in their place...
” Your school board” is under the direction of the Federal Dept of Education...If your school board does something that the feds don’t want done, the feds CUT OFF funding...
Get it BACK down to the states level where it was before Jimmah Carter started this sh*t with the DOE in 1978....
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