{"id":128494,"date":"2015-11-03T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/this-school-system-needs-a-lesson-in-civics-particularly-the-first-amendment.html"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:06:01","slug":"this-school-system-needs-a-lesson-in-civics-particularly-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/this-school-system-needs-a-lesson-in-civics-particularly-the-first-amendment.html","title":{"rendered":"This school system needs a lesson in civics, particularly the First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just don't get it.<\/p>\n

I mean, I understand the desire to evangelize (though good works tend to be more effective, in my experience, than preaching). But the folks who go all tribalistic with their Christianity (or any other religion or ideology, but we'll stick to the Christianity in this instance) and create a taxpayer-funded environment where their particular flavor of Christianity is the official practice and regular mantra and anyone else can just, well, comply or be ostracized — it just strikes me as, really, un-Christian.<\/p>\n

It's certainly un-Constitutional (federal and state), and the Bossier school district will certainly end up learning that lesson, expensively. But they won't really<\/i> learn it, because they'll turn it into an attack on their faith, not a a protection of the faith of others, including<\/i> their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nPublic School Students Say Christianity Is Being Forced on Them<\/a><\/span>
\nDuring health class, students at Airline High, a public school in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, read Bible passages, and their teacher asks them to identify t\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I just don't get it. I mean, I understand the desire to evangelize (though good works tend to be more effective, in my experience, than preaching). But the folks who go all tribalistic with their Christianity (or any other religion or ideology, but we'll stick to the Christianity in this instance) and create a taxpayer-funded … Continue reading “This school system needs a lesson in civics, particularly the First Amendment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/parents-protest-muslim-indoctrination-via-black-magic-calligraphy-lesson-at-school.html","url_meta":{"origin":128494,"position":0},"title":"Parents protest Muslim Indoctrination via Black Magic Calligraphy lesson at school","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Dec-15 5:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A 9th grade geography class in Virginia is looking at world religions, and one lesson involved the use of calligraphy as art in Islam (due to injunctions against graven images). 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