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University Tells Student to Remove Cross Necklace (Because it might offend other students)
Townhall ^ | 07/02/2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 07/02/2013 8:46:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Constitution...we don't have no stinkin' Constitution.

"First they came for the Jews, but I wasn't Jewish, then they came for the Catholics......"

Is that a records storage complex in Utah or a disguised crematorium?/sarc

21 posted on 07/02/2013 9:10:27 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Well, it would damn sure offend ME when/if someone asked me to remove my cross. Tell them to go pound sand.


22 posted on 07/02/2013 9:12:09 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m very encouraged that the University quickly denounced the action of the staffer and reversed the edict, extending apologies while so doing.


23 posted on 07/02/2013 9:12:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No cross, no star of David? Well, then no headscarves, crescent moon necklaces, no burkhas, no long raincoats that cover your body. Fair is fair.


24 posted on 07/02/2013 9:23:25 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: SeekAndFind

This country is at war with Christians; Christians just haven’t figured that out yet.


25 posted on 07/02/2013 9:23:34 AM PDT by Texas56
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To: SeekAndFind

How about we just bash the liberal in the face that makes such a stupid demand? Logic escapes them, so maybe we should just get to their primal level and bash them in the face? Make them afraid of us.


26 posted on 07/02/2013 9:26:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Phillyred; Pride in the USA
We need to take this country back from lawyers and leftists now. We need to stay in our seat on the bus!

Absolutely. These kinds of assaults on people of faith and traditional values have rapidly become a civil rights issue. I hope this young lady's attorney advises her not to accept the apology unless it's accompanied, at minimum, by a large check, mandatory sensitivity training about Christianity for the University staff, and proof that the offender's employment has been terminated.

27 posted on 07/02/2013 9:29:21 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Steely Tom
I can think of a certain well-known "pride" symbol that I find offensive on several levels, yet I see it all the time.

Kind of sucks. Rainbows are cool.
I've thought about making a bumper sticker showing a rainbow and an arm holding a sickle (Rev 10:1, 14:14-16). It is time to Reap.

28 posted on 07/02/2013 9:31:26 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Texas56
This country is at war with Christians

Make sure there is enough evidence to convict you should Christianity ever become a crime.

29 posted on 07/02/2013 9:32:26 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Had she been a “hip hop thug” wearing an oversized upside down cross nothing would have been said.


30 posted on 07/02/2013 9:34:25 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why the hell don’t Christians start getting “offended” themselves? It’s time to stop turning the other cheek and start fighting back like Old Testament warriors.


31 posted on 07/02/2013 9:37:34 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

A private school could get away with this

A public school cannot Unless it is based on some safety issue like getting it caught in a machine


32 posted on 07/02/2013 9:40:57 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
The “supervisor” who ordered the removal of the cross should be fired.

The student should have asked for the supervisor's resignation because she was deeply offended by being asked to remove her religious symbol. Or she could have suggested that she wear a burka instead.

33 posted on 07/02/2013 9:45:21 AM PDT by PuzzledInTX (Everything will be OK in the end. If it is not OK, then it isn't the end.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

“Any word on those stupid rainbow flags and stickers? They offend me.”

Puhleeeeze. My son went to orientation at his Northeast University and he said that all the students that were helping out that day wore the rainbow flag on their lapel.

I asked him what he thought about that. He said one word...

FABULOUS!!!!!!!

We both had a good laugh. My wife called us intolerant bastards.. Then she started to laugh.


34 posted on 07/02/2013 9:46:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: Don Corleone

‘Free exercise of religion’ is sooooo last century.


35 posted on 07/02/2013 9:49:23 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: factoryrat

Jews are not left out of this assault on religious freedom. The IRS was targeting Jews supporting Israel don’t forget that fact for one second!


36 posted on 07/02/2013 10:01:06 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Radagast the Fool
They issued “a Profuse apology”. Oh, please!! They only did this because they are concerned about a “profuse lawsuit”.

How come the university president can't issue his own apology? I would take this apology as much more sincere if it came from his mouth rather than from his spokesperson.

"Trying to get ahold of her"? I would have thought that email, cell phones, and other instant communications devices would have made their way to Central California by now.

37 posted on 07/02/2013 10:03:59 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Obama vs. Romney - clear evidence that our nation has been judged by God and found wanting.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about we boot the headchoppers out of the country. Then people won’t be offended.


38 posted on 07/02/2013 10:04:16 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Cracker Barrel is racist and I demand that they change their name.)
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To: Lazamataz
Whether it was fear of a well justified legal action against the university or not at least they took quick action to "have a word" with their little Fascist employee and extend apologies to the young lady.

Ideally the employee should be fired and his/her name made public so the rest of us can track the bastard down to their social website persona(s) for further remedial education in American rights. But we can all remember similar situations where the administration of the school would have circled the wagons. Sincerely sorry or not their admission that they, via one of their employees, screwed up means they knew what would be coming and feared it. Push back hard and they fold.

Christians and Jews need to keep it up and accept nothing less than these vermin be pushed back into the holes they crawled out of. They are cowards at heart and any wavering just encourages the bastards.

39 posted on 07/02/2013 10:05:05 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Progov

“Well, it would damn sure offend ME when/if someone asked me to remove my cross. Tell them to go pound sand.”

Obviously it only matters if a leftist would be offended. They dont give a Carp about offending people like us. Personally I would like to see the supervisor hounded out of office which is what they do to conservatives.


40 posted on 07/02/2013 10:09:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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