Posted on 11/29/2012 4:06:21 PM PST by drewh
Leftists are intolerant haters of diversity.
This speech was at an assembly, she has free speech and should be able to say GOD if she wants. The students are not government employees, they are not the state.
Even if you believe in the “Separation of Church and State” how do you explain a child being a state??
Now government confiscates that money and forces you to send your kids to "public" schools, where they mandate freedom from religion.
Once again- ONE whiner with “hurt feelings” must take precedent over all.
Oh, hell no.
The poem is the poem......the parents need to raise holy hell about this.
Oh my Gosh....
Read how twisted this is. We've lost our minds if we let mentally ill people like this man run anything other than a garden.
This kind of krap happens in.... N. Carolina!???
Kids need to be trained. She should have agreed to whatever the school demanded be removed from the draft. Then she should read it as she wanted, saying the word God. Force them to unplug microphones and humiliate you in front of the whole school. Force them to give you an F, force them to suspend you. Those are called “damages”.
Parents and lawyers should be standing by for immediate action if the school takes any action about it.
Kids need to be trained. She should have agreed to whatever the school demanded be removed from the draft. Then she should read it as she wanted, saying the word God. Force them to unplug microphones and humiliate you in front of the whole school. Force them to give you an F, force them to suspend you. Those are called “damages”.
Parents and lawyers should be standing by for immediate action if the school takes any action about it.
Did any other children read poems?
It’s irrelevant. The school and School Board are wrong.
while one can argue that teachers and administrators are the government, they cannot argue that about the students. Students are the “citizen-customers” of public schools, and they forfeit no religious rights by virtue of being a part of that institution any more than they forfeit free speech by standing on a courthouse lawn.
Those two sentences were rather impressive for a first grader. In the first grade, I believe that my most coherent sentence was something like: ‘Mommy, have to go pee-pee.’
How tragic it will be for the godless when the Almighty kicks their name off of His list to enter heaven.
This is control by the "most easily offended" and it is the road to ruin. There is no logical end to this control and each successful example encourages the next and next and so on.
This is the bastard child of civil rights and political correctness resulting in a 'right' not to hear something. The idea that a (presumed) atheist can cause a 6 year old's tribute to her forbearers to be censored is anathema to our society as practiced over the past centuries. To have to censor ones own mind and speech is what made Orwell's 1984 so horrible, yet this youngling has just experienced that very thing!
Speaking strictly as a lifelong atheist: what part of “freedom of worship” are these rugged individuals too stupid to understand?
The child was not praying, she was telling a story. A story about a man who prayed. His praying was not the subject of the story, HE was the subject of the story. One of the things he did was pray but he did other things too.
There is no praying, promotion of religion or preaching by this little girl.
Are we to believe that the law forbids students and teachers from reading aloud from books, novels or plays, passages that contain the prayers of the characters? What if that play is Shakespeare, what if the book isa literary classic and the word God is in it?
I think and hope that in some of the cases like this the teachers and school principles don’t understand the law, have no common sense and just don’t know what to or what is right. That is why this stuff ends up in court. Teachers are not lawyers and they are taking away kids rights in their stupidity.
“Now government confiscates that money and forces you to send your kids to “public” schools, where they mandate freedom from religion.”
The 10th plank of the communist manifesto calls for free public education. They know how to bend a mind.
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