Posted on 10/01/2017 7:51:24 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A Virginia school district says that a Bible verse engraved on bench memorializing a deceased student must be removed because it is not legal.
Charlotte County School Superintendent Nancy Leonard said that the school board determined that the engraving on the bench was illegal because it violated the U.S. Constitution’s Establishment Clause, which states that the government cannot “establish” a state-sponsored religion.
“We found that the memorial bench that we currently have is not legally compliant because of the Establishment Clause (in Constitution), because of the Bible verse,” Leonard told WAFF.
The verse from Philippians 4:13 says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
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If that inscription was supposed to be honoring my kid, I’d sit on the damn bench 24/7 until they tried to jackhammer me into oblivion.
Who paid for the bench? If the school, I question why they paid for anything like that.
If it was his family or a grassroots student deal, the school board can take a hike.
Sick stuff out there
Wrong
Sadly the youth of America are being misled and propagandized into yielding up their liberty and that of future generations by union members and elitist bureaucrats who are directed by the cultish ideology of Progressivism.
If I was the parent I would have the bench moved off school property and tell the superintendent to piss off.
That's nothing. A few weeks ago so-called “church leaders” at the so-called “National Cathedral” vandalized the sanctuary - actually busted out stained glass windows because they did not like decisions church members/contributors made decades ago.
I am not joking. They busted them out.
People need to start pushing back on this stuff. The Constitution prohibits the government from establishing a state religion or controlling it in any fashion. That same document guarantees the free exercise of religion. Those who use “the law” to prohibit the free exercise of religion must be called to task.
“The use of the Bible is so universal and its importance so great, . . . your Committee recommend that Congress will order the Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or elsewhere, into the different ports of the States of the Union.”
{Journals of the Continental Congress (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907), Vol. VIII, p. 734, September 11, 1777.}
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“Whereupon,
RESOLVED,
THAT the United States in Congress assembled highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country, and being satisfied from the above report of his care and accuracy in the execution of the work, they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, and hereby authorize him to publish this Recommendation in the manner he shall think proper.”
{Journals of the Continental Congress (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907), Vol. XIII, p. 574, September 12, 1782; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1782).}
Nancy Leonard is an idiot.
Nancy Leonard and the school board should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.
Did Congress order the wording on the memorial bench?
Total BS.
He’s just looking for excuses to throw his weight around.
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Nancy Leonard
Superintendent at Charlotte County Public Schools
Axiom: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A RELIGIOUSLY NEUTRAL EDUCATION!!!! ( Yes, I am shouting!)
A state of religious neutrality is impossible in the mind of any sentient human. There are only three possible worldviews: There is a God(s). There is no God(s). And..One is unsure. NONE of these worldviews is religiously neutral in content or consequences.
Therefore: Government schools are now, and always have, promoted and established a NON-neutral religious worldview in its schools.
Solution: SHUT DOWN ALL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING!
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