It goes waaaaay beyond this... There is a push to drive out our Christian heritage from the public school system. They are literally rewriting the textbooks. Seperation of church and state is one thing, but you CANNOT rewrite history! There has been a huge increase in religious discrimination lawsuits. The sleeping giant is waking up! I applaud this kids courage! We need more people like him.
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It is neither US policy or responsibility to teach religion. This is guaranteed by the constitution, and the fact that public schools are government funded, and thus qualify for all the protections OF the constitution, church and state separations included.
If you don't support that, then don't pay your taxes, and say "hi" to Dr. Dino in the cells for me.
Or you could always, y'know, just teach your kids your beliefs in private, and shut up. That would be nice too.
"They are literally rewriting the textbooks. Seperation of church and state is one thing, but you CANNOT rewrite history! "
And yet there is a fundie history rewriting project, not to mention the creationist texbooks they have been writing for decades.
Keep polishing that mirror Joe!
The same fundies that accuse other people of rewriting history are the same fundies that claim the founding fathers were bible thumping, born again christians. Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle, Mr Kettle, meet Mr Pot.
It goes waaaaay beyond this... There is a push to drive out our Christian heritage from the public school system.
No, there is no "push" because combining the two is already illegal you stupid fucking cunt .
According to the article, the teacher wasn't saying anything untrue. The few hostile statements the kid claims, I don't believe were actually said. The kid probably realized that the teacher was making factual statements and had to tack something else on there to make a suit.
Seriously, if this teacher was constantly bashing Christians and saying horrible things, wouldn't someone have complained in the last 15 years he's been teaching?
but you CANNOT rewrite history!
Very true. What you can do, however, is rewrite history books that were wrong, or inaccurate, or propagandistic, as more evidence comes to light and the rationalist authors increasingly outnumber the religious kooks.
"It goes waaaaay beyond this..."
I'll just bet it does. (Wait till I tell you about the Bohemian Grove, Stargate, FYC, and the Rasputin-Putin connection!)
@solomongrundy
I don't want to sound precious, and yes the kid may be an idiot, but he's protesting about something he believes in. I don't agree with his argument, and I worry about fundies throwing their weight arounf, but I have to support a kid getting off his bum and engaging. He may be reachable or not, but he shows courage
History books used to be written mostly to inspire children. Accuracy was considered secondary.
Now that the authors consider accuracy to be more important, all the people who learned history from those whitewashed, slanted texts are outraged at the "falsehoods."
"There is a push to drive out our Christian Heritage from our public school system."
You can't push out something that was never there.
Joe has joined Russ in the Fundie Bullshit Factory.
"They are literally rewriting the textbooks."
- I know. Those folks in Texas actually want future generations to think Baby Bush was a decent president. Can you believe it?
"Seperation of church and state is one thing, but you CANNOT rewrite history!"
- Tell that to David Barton.
"There has been a huge increase in religious discrimination lawsuits."
- And how many of them actually had any sort of legal grounds? Quantity does not equal quality.
"The sleeping giant is waking up!"
- And it is writhing in its death throws.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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