Posted on 01/01/2003 8:23:17 AM PST by marshmallow
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Of course, they would argue that those things are part of the "approved" curriculum.
This ain't right.
When I was a kid you had to get caught with dope or a gun to get suspended. Where are the principal's brain cells?
The primary civil authority here is "We the People of the United States of America." "We" have guaranteed those teenagers' freedom of speech. No government institution (public school) has the right to keep them from participating in the free market of ideas, provided they were not disrupting education or abusing speech, which they were not.
What a sanctimonious twit you come off as.
(Since you decided to start name-calling and informing posters of what they do and do not know).
Can you document this assertion?
Can you document who the atheists are in this story?
We are not to live by the letter of the law of the Old Testament. Jesus came... New Testament... all that kind of thing?
I'm quoting from Romans, which is NT. What Bible do you have?
Thanks to Him. Your view, however, appears to be in the minority. LOL
Do you, for a minute, believe that the author of Hebrews 11:6 (or better yet, the One who sent him forth) would have foregone an opportunity to make disciples on account of such a regulation?
A fallacious argument. Do you, for a minute, believe that He ever contradicts Himself? So that when He commands us to obey the civil authorities He then disobeys them when it is not necessary from God's perspective to do so? The point is that here it was not only unnecessary but counterproductive in that it brings Christ into disrepute.
Personally, if ever faced with a similar situation, I hope to err on the side of God's will.
There we diverge. You maintain their disobedience furthered God's will to evangelize. I say it did the reverse, and it violated His will as expressed in Romans 13 and elsewhere.
I didn't change the subject. You responded to my post "You will learn what we want you to learn and nothing else ..." So that was the subject.
Constitutionally, the only place any lines can be drawn are to ban all literature, as this district apparently has done, or to bar it on a case-by-case basis when it disrupts learning, which is far more subjective and permits idealogues to ban everything, such as Christian outreach materials, with which they disagree.
Yes, free speech can be an unpleasant thing. An institution of LEARNING that suppresses ALL speech, as you apparently support, is doomed to fail in its purpose. It becomes an institution of INDOCTRINATION instead.
You presume much too much. You have no idea, do you, where I have stood up for my Lord? Your personal judgmental attacks on my character, as I quoted above, are completely out-of-line. Do you pretend to be a Christian? Then act like one.
Unless and until you do, I will not dignify your post with a response, although I have responded to every other who has challenged my posts.
To me this line right here proves all of you wrong. Apparently the school has no problems with Christians, and this is not a one-sided prosecution of rules.
The school obviously allows a Bible Club, so if they had no rule about non-school related material being distributed, they wouldn't make one up for this group.
These students admittedly broke the rules, in which they were aware of, and should be punished.
I tell my son over and over again, just because you don't like a rule, or a law doesn't mean you have the right to break it. You have every right in the world to try and change it, but you don't have a right to break it.
These children should have gone to the school board, and petitioned a change, thats the democratic way, instead they went outside the rules and broke them, so they should be punished.
I have great respect for these students beliefs, and I hope and pray they retain them later in life, but they must do so "legally".
Also honestly, how many of you would have been responding the same way if this story was about the "Peace Club" handing out anti-war literature?
Think about it and have a Happy New Year!!!
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