Bibles in Cumberland County

Did they "hand them out" or have them set up on a table available for kids to pick up if they like?

 

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For those of you with your chin between the forefinger and thumb, pondering What Would Chuck Norris Do? Well here ya go!

http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=9065#comments

 

So would the community be so quick to endorse the Westboro Baptist Church point of view and allow them to have a "Meet me at the flagpole" assembly. Would the distribution, in the same fashion as the bibles at CMS, of religious texts from Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishna, the Reverend Sun Yung Moon be allowed? What if the Church of Scientology or the local masjid wanted to do so.

Seems to me that unless one can ethically and constitutionally make the determination, then none of it should be happeeing at a tax payer funded school, where I might add..impressionable children abound.

Promoting one point of view excludes others. That's a slippery slope upon which none of us can afford to stand.

The curiculum requires enough attention that matters that should be taught at home, NEED to be TAUGHT AT HOME.

 

Too many kicks to the head, I suppose.

 

Well said. For a practical application of this issue picture the bibles being handed out in class and the one kid who doesn't believe and doesn't acceptthe bible being handed to him.

 

I get it!! Good one.

 

:lol:

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::mrgreen:

 

Do you also believe Gay and lesbian groups should not push their sexuality upon people as well? Do you feel left wing obnoxious groups like Code Pink should protest outside Walter Reid Hospitol?

 

I think CMS does "Meet Me At The Flagpole" every year. I know last year posters were put up on the walls, and kids were passing out literature. I was a little bugged by it. I like the idea of a table set up in the commons area where literature on ALL religions is made available to kids. I would be supportive of that. I agree promoting one POV excludes others, but the majority will argue that they just got there first - and you can do it too!

See but the "damage" is already done, sending bibles home with yes - impressionable kids (and they would not be doing if the kids were not impressionable). Religious literature "endorsed" by the school to a naieve child might give them the idea "It came from school, along with my Math book and Science book - so it must be true, everybody else is "ABC Religion" so I should, too...

I understand I live in the Bible Belt, but "When in Rome" went out with well... Rome. This is why I teach tolerance at home, so that my kids are not "brainwashed" or "indoctrinated". This is a decision I would like my son to make for himself when he is mature and "knows" - not because all of his friends at the lunch table are meeting at the pole the next morning.

 

Yes!! But they push that hypothesis as Scientific fact!! Great minds these school systems have in place.
Their attorneys run the show.

 

When I was in MS the Gideons would be in the cafeteria with a table setup with a sign. Free Bibles. I have no problem with that. For any religion.

 

Agreed. *If* multiple religious texts are available at the same time, so nobody has exclusivity.

 

Why am I not surprised Hugh frequents a Cynical website??? Make sure you read the responses to the video. They are even better.

 

I would rank Westboro Baptist up the with Code Pink. Neither have a place in society.

 

What's the story with Westboro?

 

That is the group of faniticals that protest at Soldiers Funerals. Saying They deserved to die because we have tolerance of the Gay and Lesbian community.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307058,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul05/0,4670,FuneralProtestArrest,00.html

See I posted some links for the Intellectual indigent Simeon's. That was not directed at you Cleo.

 

Um, actually, no.

The Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free execersise thereof;"

Now, there are two issues here. First off, Congree did not make any law requiring the school to put Bibles in the class room.

Second, if you want to start with the old tired, "well the school is government run and Congress is also the government so it's the same thing," Then you cannot take the Bibles out of the class room because that would be the same as Congress preventing the free excersise of religion.

 

Thanks! SS hooked me up, my old avatar was about 2 computers ago....

 

Yeah, I know what you are talking about.

Yup, no place in Society.

 

For the intellectual what? I might be indignant, but I have been blessed in my life never to have been indigent, and who is Simeon? Just guessing that might be directed at me - if not..............nevermind. :mrgreen:


Thanks for the links. This is one story that even Fox gets right. And an issue the right and the left can agree on - those Westboro church people are lunatics.