Losing Your Freedom

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLoud, on September 1, 2000. I thought it was worth sharing with the world and hope you will forward it to all your friends. It shows clearly just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction.

"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country. Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law.

As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it, "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK. I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility, to present the merits of killing an unborn baby, as a "viable means of birth control." If someone isoffended, no problem. I can designate a school day as, "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess, "Mother Earth," and call it "ecology."

I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as, "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it, "enlighten-ment." However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God, and to ask Him to bless this event with safety and good sports-manship, then Federal Case Law is violated. This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God and His Commandments.

Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time. However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God, and ask Him, in the name of Jesus, to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."

One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another, and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand, and they prayed in the announcer's box. The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America - the seat of "justice" in the "one nation, under God."

Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise God that His remnant remains!

Celebrate Jesus in 2002! Jesus said, "If you are ashamed of Me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father."

Yes, I do Love God. He is my source of existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I will be nothing, but with Him, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13

I sincerely doubt that any school in this country is teaching children homosexuality.

If you really doubt this then you have had your head in the sand for the past several years.
There are many schools that REQUIRE a child to go see "diversity" plays whether the parents approve or not. They don't even notify the parents that it is going to, or has, happened.

Homosexuality is not a life-style choice. It is what someone IS. Just as you and I are heterosexual, homosexuality is what a person IS. Obviously you believe in god. If so, then you believe that you are made by god. Then it follows that you must, of necessity, believe that god also made people who are homosexual.

G*D made the people but it is Satan that tempts them into homosexuality. If homosexuality was NOT a life-style choice then how could former homosexuals have heterosexual marriages?

Do you know that homosexuality is found very often in the animal kingdom?

There is a VERY large difference between homosexuality in humans and dominance games in the animal kingdom. If you cannot see the difference then you are blinding yourself.

Where do I start with you? Let's try your post. Then it will be me who decides whether you are worthy of talking to.

I sincerely doubt that any school in this country is teaching children homosexuality.

Then you obviously missed the story on the "fisting" class that was had at a Boston area school last year. In that same class, taped by a participant, the "gay" discussion leaders, openly advocated homosexuality. If that is not teaching, then I do not know what is. This one class is not the only example.

I would guess that what is being taught is TOLERANCE,

Try an follow this. TOLERANCE of this gay whatever you want to call it, is itself a value judgment. Certain religions, Catholicism, for example, teach NOT to Tolerate it. Islam does as well, if I am not mistaken. SO on the one hand, you have a clear religious teaching that is not silent, but outright says NOT TO TOLERATE. Now, you ahve teachers teaching "tolerance" as you would call it. If that tolerance goes directly against a religious tenet, then such "tolerance" takes the form of a religious teaching whether you would acknowledge it or not.

And while we're on the subject, libraries in this country are PUBLIC LIBRARIES, not family libraries. As such, libraries must serve the public who pays the bills.

So, if a community voted on it and voted that their public library would treble their christian holdings and eliminate their homosexual holdings, that would be okay with you?

So get used to this fact and deal with it.

This gratuitous line adds nothing to the conversation.

Instead, it would serve you better to learn tolerance.

You know nothing about me and you know nothing about what I believe. I have incredible tolerance. I tolerate christians equally with homos. I tolerate blacks and whites. Long as the money's green I don't care.

I'm going to say something that is probably going to outrage you, but if you can look beyond your outrage perhaps we can have a discussion. If not, there's no point in continuing as far as I'm concerned.

More gratuitous nothing/

Since you want to talk about homosexuality, then let's do so. Homosexuality is not a life-style choice. It is what someone IS.

So says you. I do not agree.

Just as you and I are heterosexual, homosexuality is what a person IS.

I do not agree. If someone spent their time buggering animals I would not claim that such is normal. Nor would I claim that pedophiles are normal even though they can't seem to help themselves. That homosexuality is considered "normal" is a public policy decision and nothing more.

Obviously you believe in god.

Wrong again, chiefy. I am what would be called a Deist.

If so, then you believe that you are made by god.

No I beleive that I was made by sperm and egg from my mother and father.

Then it follows that you must, of necessity, believe that god also made people who are homosexual.

No I beleive that something in their upbringing caused them to so beleive.

Do you know that homosexuality is found very often in the animal kingdom?

Yeah, and my dog will hump my leg in public, so what?

Or are you so insecure in yourself that you have nothing better to do that persecute people who are different from you?

I have persecuted no one. Nor will I. What people do in the privacy of their homes is their business. It becomes my business, when they try to foist their ideas upon me and my children. Homosexuals are doing just that.

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