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Teacher cries 'hate crime' over Bible left on desk
WND ^ | February 18, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling

Posted on 02/18/2010 2:50:26 AM PST by bogusname

An eighth-grade teacher has accused her students of committing a "hate crime" and being "cruel" because they left a Bible on her desk and a Christmas card with the word "Christ" underlined.

Melissa Hussain, an Apex, N.C., science teacher at West Lake Middle School, is suspended with pay and may lose her job after she purportedly clashed with students on the subject of religion and sent students to the school office when they asked about the role of God in creation during a lesson about evolution.

Hussain wrote on her then-public Facebook page that it was a "hate crime" when her students left a Bible on her desk, according to the Charlotte News & Observer. She complained about students singing "Jesus Loves Me" and wearing Jesus T-shirts.

Hussain said she "was able to shame her kids" over the incidents.

"I can't believe the cruelty and ignorance of people sometimes," Hussain wrote on the social networking site.

She said she wouldn't let the Bible incident "go unpunished."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: bible; christian; christmas; facebook; hatecrime; hatecrimes; homeschoolingisgood; hussain; islam; muslim; publiceducation; publicschool; publicschools; school; socialmedia; socialnetworking
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Yeah, calling it a ‘Hate Crime’ is ridiculous I agree, but lets get real here, they didn’t put a Bible on her desk because they wanted to share the love of Christ and his teachings with her, they are doing it because they want to piss her off....

Unless you possess some sort of unique Jedi powers that enables you to read the minds of those school kids, your assertion is nothing but speculation on your part.
21 posted on 02/18/2010 4:29:09 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: nmh
It could be that she is the fat ugly white woman who married a Muslim from Morocco. Hence her last name.
22 posted on 02/18/2010 4:37:27 AM PST by Roger_Wildcat
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Pissing people off is what got Him killed. It got Peter stoned. It got Paul and Silas thrown in prison. I wonder how you know what their motives were?


23 posted on 02/18/2010 4:42:37 AM PST by naturalized
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

So what if they did? It’s a display of Christianity in a Christian nation, so entirely legitimate. If she doesn’t like this, she’s welcome to go back to whatever mudslime hellhole she came from.


24 posted on 02/18/2010 4:43:09 AM PST by IntolerantOfTreason (The AMERICAN President should be an AMERICAN, NOT an AFRICAN-American)
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To: naturalized

Not Peter, Stephen. Must . . . find . . . more . . .DDP.


25 posted on 02/18/2010 4:43:54 AM PST by naturalized
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To: mkjessup

That is what will happen, no ifs ands or buts about it.


26 posted on 02/18/2010 4:46:07 AM PST by bogusname (Banish All Liberals)
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To: mkjessup

They also left here a Christmas card with the word ‘Christ’ underlined. I wonder why the might have done that? Of course, its purely speculation, but I would suggest they were doing it to annoy her....


27 posted on 02/18/2010 5:08:56 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: bogusname

She sounds mentally unstable.


28 posted on 02/18/2010 5:09:47 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

“Granted, probably brought this on herself for showing the pupils how angry it made her to hear about creationism,...”

In all likelyhood it made her angry enough to attack their beliefs from her position as “Teacher”; so she gets their sense of the matter right back at her. Good for these kids and keep it up. She’s the adult here if control was lost SHE lost it.


29 posted on 02/18/2010 5:18:57 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

If she doesn’t believe Jesus is who He is claimed to be, then it wouldn’t bother her, let alone be considered ‘hateful’.

The teacher has merely manifest to her students that she has known in her heart He is God, but has refused to believe or place faith in it and has rejected Him.

The students, if believers, simply are lumping coals on the head of their adversary by gracefully blessing her.

If unbelievers, then although they might have intended it for evil, might be meant for good by His Plan in all things.

Besides, the unbeliever doesn’t have the ability to know the hearts of other people, other than judging them by their fruits.


30 posted on 02/18/2010 5:30:40 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Maybe it was done to stress the meaning of Christmas.


31 posted on 02/18/2010 5:31:34 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: bogusname

With a first name like “Melissa”, I wonder what her maiden name is? Or, did she disdain that so much that she had to change it?
She is not acting like a teacher...should’ve ignored it.


32 posted on 02/18/2010 5:33:31 AM PST by RebelTXRose
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To: naturalized

The natural reaction for a soulish person who further degenerates in arrogance is to oppose anything Christian.

Loving God by placing nothing else before Him and also loving one’s fellow man, often results in those who reject God to react, rather than respond to their obedience and love for Him. It’s another indicator of how corrupt living outside of Christ degenerates the human mind and decision making abilities.


33 posted on 02/18/2010 5:37:06 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: TalBlack

Truth from the mouth of babes.


34 posted on 02/18/2010 5:38:43 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Yup, no doubt. But you want to know what, it works for me. These liberal indoctrination centers just some time need a bit of shaking up. And to be frank about it it still sucks to be her. They can postulate all the crap they want to with impunity and we the compliant sheep only bleet.

SO if a few kids want to piss off the establishment, good on them.

I don't know how old you are but I am old enough to not really care what people think about me. I do not trust anything to do with government control. (and I retired from the military) It really bothers my father but OH WELL. It is my opinion.

Respect is earned and if this teacher is blinded by her own sheepskin then again it still sucks to be her.

35 posted on 02/18/2010 5:53:25 AM PST by SERE_DOC (My Rice Krispies told me to stay home & clean my weapons! How does one clean a phase 4 plasma rifle)
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The students were merely trying to start reasoned debate. This is what this book (The Bible) says about what her book (Darwinism) says.

Yes, she does sound Amish and to her prostelizing the Christian faith would be a crime usually punishable by death.


36 posted on 02/18/2010 5:54:48 AM PST by bjorn14 ("The Constitution is a fundamentally flawed document..." -Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

“It could be that she is the fat ugly white woman who married a Muslim from Morocco. Hence her last name.”

Then she’s even dumber than I thought.


37 posted on 02/18/2010 6:44:30 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan; All
They also left her a Christmas card with the word ‘Christ’ underlined. I wonder why they might have done that? Of course, its purely speculation, but I would suggest they were doing it to annoy her....

It could also be that after enduriung endless anti-religious/anti-Christian rants and abuse, her students decided to stand up for their beliefs. However even IF it were to annoy her, the fact remains that they were presenting her with absolute Biblical truth:

‘Christ’ is the answer.
38 posted on 02/18/2010 6:58:49 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: bogusname

What awesome kids, to not be bullied by this obviously close-minded ‘teacher’ (actually bigot).


39 posted on 02/18/2010 7:17:09 AM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
And you KNOW this because...???

Don't make assumptions about certain peoples actions until you know the whole story. There might have been questions such as “Does the Bible really say?” and one of the students thought of giving her a Bible as an answer. One Bible does not mean the whole class was involved, only one student.

And just because she says other students were doing it, doesn't mean they were, only that she says so (for the sake of the lawsuit).

40 posted on 02/18/2010 10:30:08 AM PST by wbarmy (Hard core, extremist, and right-wing is a little too mild for my tastes.)
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