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The real agenda behind antibullying campaign
Mpls Star Tribune ^ | 1/12/13 | Katherine Kersten

Posted on 01/12/2013 4:38:21 PM PST by rhema

Who -- in the sensitive, civilized Minnesota of 2013 -- could possibly be in favor of bullying? If you were short or fat in sixth grade, you may have cringed from bullies yourself. If your kids have endured bullying, you've suffered through it with them. No child should have to put up with bullying. So how could a decent person oppose a campaign at our State Capitol to prevent it?

But what if the antibullying campaign now unfolding there has little to do with protecting the traditional targets of bullies: kids who are pudgy, shy or "vertically challenged"? What if it's driven instead by a political/cultural agenda that's not so much about stopping bad behavior as it is about using the machinery of state education to compel children to adopt politically correct attitudes on "the nature of human sexuality," "gender identity" and alternative family structures?

What if a new antibullying law would require private religious schools -- along with public schools -- to enforce this agenda, so families who don't want to subject their kids to indoctrination in state-approved views of sexuality have no educational refuge?

In the 2013 legislative session, you'll hear lots of warm, fuzzy language from lawmakers and public officials about protecting "all kids" from bullying. You'll read about hearings designed to break every legislator's heart with tearful stories about bullying.

But every Minnesotan with a child in public or private school should understand that there's more going on here than meets the eye.

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


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To: annalex; metmom; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy
Respect should not be confused with liking everyone. It is a form of love: a desire for another to come to salvation in Christ.

And the devil is in the details, as this yet allows for imprisonment and torture of theological dissenters, or suspects or even witnesses, and slaying of the convicted (and often prolonged imprisonment in any case), all in the name of Christ.

And it is reasonable to expect you would have affirmed that kind of respect in such periods as the 13th century due to its papal sanction, and justify under the rubric of doing what is best for their souls, but which is contrary to what the NT teaches on the means the church used for proactive discipline, as that required spiritual power.

101 posted on 01/14/2013 6:42:19 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212; metmom; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy
you would have affirmed that kind of respect

Is it about me? Fascinating subject.

Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously. I know I would.

102 posted on 01/14/2013 6:50:05 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: ilovesarah2012
We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists

Speak for yourself because my wife and I sure as hell didn't.

103 posted on 01/14/2013 7:31:05 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: annalex; daniel1212; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy; ...

That your kind of Catholic thinking is still alive and well is a testament to the deceit of Satan.

No way I’d ever want to go back to Catholicism if their history of treating heretics is still being applauded by Catholics.

Thank God for the Reformation breaking the power stranglehold that the RCC had on governments and people. People are safe now, safe from the *loving* arms of the mother church.


104 posted on 01/14/2013 7:52:50 PM PST by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: MD Expat in PA
But that doesn’t mean that bullying isn’t a problem or that it can be solved by some martial arts training.

It certainly can be solved by quality martial arts training, to the degree that it can be solved at all. You may not change bullys' minds, but bring able to casually tap them with two fingers as you pass them in the hall so they collapse puking and gasping for air without a single witness in the crowd to what transpired, will certainly change their behavior. If there's a second encounter, ask them which eye they like best, the right or the left. Psychological song and dance aside, bullys bully others because they can. A bully who can't breathe or is seeing out of one eye, learns there are some they can't.

People may disagree with the comparison, but in many public schools the atmosphere is prison yard lite...if your child were going to prison tomorrow, would you rather they be prepared by the wisdom of Norman Vincent Peale or Wong Fei Hung?

105 posted on 01/14/2013 8:55:29 PM PST by fattigermaster
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To: annalex
Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously.

Some folks are just to impatient to wait; or maybe they just want to help the Lord out...


Matthew 13:24-30

24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying,

“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 “But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. 26 “But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

27 “The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

28 “And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’

The slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’

29 “But he said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 ‘Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”


106 posted on 01/15/2013 4:48:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Eaker
Speak for yourself because my wife and I sure as hell didn't.

Praise you!

May your offspring help save this country!

107 posted on 01/15/2013 4:49:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fattigermaster

You’ll get your eye put out with this thing...


108 posted on 01/15/2013 4:51:33 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom; daniel1212; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy

I stand by all my posts and do not respond to trolls.


109 posted on 01/15/2013 5:29:41 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Elsie

This is off-topic, — and a deliberate attempt to start a flame war. However, the treatment of heretics was purely defensive and harsh as it sometime was, was not intended to replace or hasten their judgment by the Eternal Judge. In fact, the suffering to which a heretic was put through was viewed as a chance for him to gain salvation nevertheless.

You have the last word.


110 posted on 01/15/2013 5:33:28 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: fattigermaster
in many public schools the atmosphere is prison yard lite

Very true.

111 posted on 01/15/2013 5:42:27 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

God help us.


112 posted on 01/15/2013 5:48:41 AM PST by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: annalex; Elsie
>> In fact, the suffering to which a heretic was put through was viewed as a chance for him to gain salvation nevertheless.<<

Could you show where Christ taught conversion through torture?

113 posted on 01/15/2013 5:49:10 AM PST by CynicalBear
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To: annalex; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear
Is it about me? Fascinating subject.

It is relevant as you advocated respect, which needed defining, and represent the class of Catholics who believe they were putting forth their best efforts in punishing them by physical means under Rome's claim to coercive jurisdiction, after the manner of the Inquisitions, etc., and seem to affirm that level of obedience, and thus illustrate what kind of "respect" that can lead to.

Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously. I know I would.

Obviously it is how that translates into action that is the issue.

114 posted on 01/15/2013 7:07:12 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: annalex
This is off-topic, — and a deliberate attempt to start a flame war.

Ha ha ha!

You have the last word.

I'll take it.

115 posted on 01/15/2013 9:07:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
God help us.

Yeah... Sure...




Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

116 posted on 01/15/2013 9:08:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; annalex; metmom

This is a moral issue which invites religious posters, (and the OP is a Christian), and as some RCs are clearly committed to conformity with Rome and submission thereof, then it is fitting to inquire of their views when they seem to convey something different from how their moral authority has defined it.

It seems this began with an RC who justifies papal-sanctions for imprisonment, torture and the death of Rome’s theological non-conformists, and who gave his RC opinion on how (practicing) homosexual children should be treated, but which then justly extended to how those guilty of criminal behavior should be treated. And in light of the RC poster being one whose views are to be in conformity with the church that he holds all must submit to, thus just what “respect” can entail justly became is a valid topic.

As for evidencing simply looking to denigrate someone, that is not foreign to RCs, as i can show.


117 posted on 01/15/2013 12:21:41 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: annalex
This is off-topic, — and a deliberate attempt to start a flame war. However, the treatment of heretics was purely defensive and harsh as it sometime was, was not intended to replace or hasten their judgment by the Eternal Judge. In fact, the suffering to which a heretic was put through was viewed as a chance for him to gain salvation nevertheless.

Wow. Justifying torturing and killing someone into salvation.

Just when you think you've heard it all.

Seems to me that Jesus simply let people walk away from Him if they chose not to follow Him.

Just where in the gospels does Jesus give the church, or ANYONE for that matter, the authority to torture and kill anyone in a bid to *save* them?

Suffering does not gain salvation. It does not pay for sins.

Personally, I prefer to post the truth of Scripture to convince someone to choose God.

I don't know what God you serve or what Jesus you serve, but the one in the Bible did not ever condone or authorize that kind of treatment of people, believers, *heretics*, infidels, whatever.......

118 posted on 01/15/2013 1:30:23 PM PST by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Eaker

That quote was from an article. I was not speaking for myself. My grown kids are not narcissists by any means.


119 posted on 01/15/2013 2:46:18 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

It wasn’t italicized which would indicate a quote and not your own words.


120 posted on 01/15/2013 3:13:54 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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