[kittymyrib]

Sounds like Christians are getting tired of being kicked around, which is a good thing. There are only so many cheeks one can turn.
The entire school board needs to be voted out ASAP, particularly the president, who didn’t want anyone to “go public” with what was going on in a PUBLIC school.

[netmilsmom]

If the teacher were crossdressing, it would be okay.
But put a book on a desk and someone might blow a clot.

Help me. (and Lord Bless these students)

[50sDad]

Teachers and administration in my district tacitly co-operated with National Silent About Perscuting Homos day, and didn’t mark students as absent when they pulled out of school a few years ago to go see Bubba when he came to town on a fundraising tour. It was “students showing a social concious and protesting problems in society” and “civil disobediance” and a bunch of 60’s hooey. I bet the same people who went all touchy-feely over that are blowing a gasket over these kids standing up for what they believe in...

[yankeedame]

(The reaction of the civil liberities crowd when told of the news.)

[mware]

The kids are alright.

[informavoracious]

God bless these kids and their teacher. The sexual deviants have their say, it is high time decent people stood up for their beliefs.

[LucyJo]

Continuing to pray about this. God bless those who are fighting the good fight.

[DGHoodini]

Watsons contract is *so* not going to be renewed.

[Sacajaweau]

Good for them. What the government has been doing is no less than “dictatorial” and was one of the reasons we fought to establish a new nation.

[RogerD]

Students at the Mount Vernon, Ohio, school district have called a 'take-your-Bible-to-school day" tomorrow in support of a popular teacher who has been ordered to keep his Bible hidden while students are in his classroom.

I keep a Bible on my classroom desk as well, and I have never heard of any complaints. I'd guess that most parents know what "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" means. If there are any complaints, my principal is intelligent enough not to interpret a whine from an isolated loser as an order that should be obeyed. This sort of discrimination is, as far as I can tell, only "widespread" in the sense that there are dozens of principals in the country weak enough to give in to random and baseless complaints. With tens of thousands of good principals, it's important to remember that these cases are exceptions and to encourage good teachers and principals not to give in to fear of these complainers.

Note: It's possible that there is more to this story and that this teacher has crossed the line on appropriate conduct in other ways that are not specified in the story. However, the correct answer if that is the case is to insist that he not cross that line again or to fire him, not to ban the Bible from the classroom.

[Larry Lucido]

Daubenmire, however, said the Bible is an important part of Freshwater's life, to the point he carries it with him when he parachutes into forest fire zones during his summer work as a smokejumper in the American West.

He's just bitter.

[agrace]

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Good news mixed in with this. Good for the students.

[kitkat]

There’s more than one way to fight the war on terror. If we can’t be over there in Iraq, etc., we can fight against losing our rights by resisting the terrorists’ local enablers. In fact, we have an obligation to do so.

[jacknhoo]

It seems atheistic socialism must eliminate the opposition of religion, tradition and family - its only real obstacles.
Christianity is singled out (only for now) because all the other ism's and religions are more than happy to see Christianity go down. Then, atheistic socialism will leverage the fact that the people of the other less popular religions and ism's forfeited their rights to see the downfall of Christianity to force the downfall/elimination of the influence of all religions and ism's and people will only then realize they have cut off their noses to spite their face. Of course, it will be too late, then.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I suppose the teacher could lead the kids in Muslim prayers. /sarcasm

Good for the kids and the teacher.