A Patriotic Right to Say 'God' in the Classroom? (ACLJ enters the fray)

CNS News ^ | October 26, 2001 | Michael Betsch

[Mr. Mulliner]

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[Neets]

WOW..good read...thanks for the Ping!!!

[Mr. Mulliner]

Your welcome, OM. All God-fearing Americans are welcome here. I think Jay Sekulow is a hero for his fight for religious freedom.

[Miss Marple]

While the ACLU busies itself removing "God bless America" signs from the public schools, they never make any effort to chastise people who proselytize for Wicca or other strange cults. They are simply anti-Christianity.

I am glad to see that opposition to their bully tactics exists. They have made a lot of headway by threatening expensive lawsuits, which many school districts cannot afford.

[Guenevere]

BTTT.....Thanks!

[Mr. Mulliner]

Yes, I think there's no question they are anti-Christian, no matter how much they deny it and try to point out evidence to the contrary. Kind of like Peter, Dan, and Tom trying to claim, with a straight face, that they are not politically biased.

[Mr. Mulliner]

How did I ever forget to flag you, ISB?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Ping for a good read

[gas_dr]

The intermingling of patriotism and religion in recent weeks has caused confusion about what type of speech is permissible

I may not be exactly verbatim, but I seem to remember "congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." I am pretty sure that this means that the ACLU/AU can go stick their "humanistic" principles up the ungodly...well, you get the idea.

[spacealien]

[The terrorists] "want a theocracy where one faith is mandated by the government"

We've got it. The public school-mandated faith is humanism/liberalism. LIBERALISM IS A RELIGION. The best defense is a good offense--start a campaign to get the religion known as LIBERALISM out of the schools.

[pocat]

Thanks, PUNK.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Appealing to the First Amendment is only logical in this case. And public schools are the perfect place for the rights of that amendment to be asserted. That amendment was not designed to protect free speech in private homes. It's intended to protect free speech in public.

I'm sorry, but I just don't get these ACLU types. How in the heck am I "establishing" a religion if I am a teacher, an administrator or even a student and sayiing "God bless America"? I thought the establishment of a religion is a heck of a lot harder than that.

[spectre]

This country had better wake up and get back to the basics. MAJORITY RULES. I'm sick and tired of a couple of weirdo's bringing down the whole darn system just because they have their "rights". The majority have rights too and they outnumber the very few who are offended because GOD is in the classroom.

Majority rules, majority rules, majority rules....grrrrr.

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[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[det dweller too]

I think people need to remember that the first ammendment, which these activists try to stretch like hell to prohibit any thought of religion in schools apply only to the FEDERAL government. So unless your local public school is owned and opperated by Uncle Sam, you can do anything you want.
For example, my local church {Catholic} when the building was being built, held sunday services in a local middle school. This went on for about a year and nobody had a fit and nobody complained. The local school actually loved it because we paid rent to use the place and cleaned up after ourselves.

[pgkdan]

While the ACLU busies itself removing "God bless America" signs from the public schools, they never make any effort to chastise people who proselytize for Wicca or other strange cults. They are simply anti-Christianity.

You can establish a Mosque in public scholl...and put up signs admonishing all who enter the mosque to remove their shoe...but don't you dare say God...Allah's ok though...and if you so much as dare to think about saying the Lord's Prayer that'll get you expelled!

[freedomnews]

List Of Words in Bill Text for the 107th Congress starting with: HR3162 = POLICESTATE LOOK FOR YOUR SELF

[Brian Allen]

While the ACLU busies itself removing "God bless America" signs from the public schools, they never make any effort to chastise people who proselytize for Wicca or other strange cults.

They are simply anti-Christianity!

[The terrorists] "want a theocracy where one faith is mandated by the government"

We've got it. The public school-mandated faith is humanism/liberalism. LIBERALISM IS A RELIGION. The best defense is a good offense--start a campaign to get the religion known as LIBERALISM out of the schools.

Right on, Y'All!

We shouldn't allow ourselves to be convinced otherwise than that -- especially to its adherents -- "Environmentalism" is a grotesquely-pagan-heathen form of "religion," too.

When the tree-and critter-hugging environazis say "Love your Mother," they are not hiding what they are up to -- and they are not kidding!

And, along with the religion of Sodom and Gomorroh, that stuff is being force-fed in schools, too!

[dixie sass]

Are you trying to get me going this early in the day!! Geeze, I'm not even awake yet!! No coffee and out of cigarettes. Boy, AP!!! Smile