Well I imagine this group could talk about how hard it was to get the group stated
We have the right to form a group around nothing and call it the nothing group.
It's simply silly to try to stop them then yes?
Because it's laughable that anyone would try to stop them but they did.
Allowing people to gather isn't "pandering", it's their right.
It actually proves that it's not.
Tit for tat then.
| Alliance Defending Freedom, a law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, offered to defend the school district free of charge. “Public schools should encourage students to participate in as many community service opportunities as possible. The Constitution does not prohibit students from cooperating with a religious organization to help starving families, which is not any sort of government endorsement of religion,” said ADF attorney Matt Sharp. “Neutrality toward religion does not permit schools to discriminate against beneficial programs simply because they are run by Christians. That is not neutrality but the very hostility toward religion that the First Amendment forbids.” |
If the below quote (from the same article) is an example of what Fox News think of as being "Fair and Balanced" then I personally don't trust a word of it. Todd Starnes' personal bias is rather clear anyway...if he really means it.
| "To illustrate her point, the letter to school officials featured damning photograph evidence – including images of a choir clad in robes, stained glass windows, and (brace yourself) a steeple. Oh, the horror! How the atheists must have trembled at the sight of the cross as they tried to avert their eyes lest they soil themselves and spontaneously combust." |
If the below quote (from the same article) is an example of what Fox News think of as being "Fair and Balanced" then I personally don't trust a word of it. Todd Starnes' personal bias is rather clear anyway...if he really means it.
I rather doubt that any Humanists actually want anyone to starve as implied, imo it's all just distorted worthless journalistic bluster and eye candy for FOX's audience to get all worked up about. :IA:
"To illustrate her point, the letter to school officials featured damning photograph evidence – including images of a choir clad in robes, stained glass windows, and (brace yourself) a steeple. Oh, the horror!
How the atheists must have trembled at the sight of the cross as they tried to avert their eyes lest they soil themselves and spontaneously combust."
Go on, do pull the other one.
He's having a laugh, surely.
| “The school has clearly violated the Establishment Clause,” AHA attorney Monica Miller wrote in a threatening letter to the school and district officials. “By sending public school children under your authority to a religious environment – to work with a religious organization that is on a religious mission – is a violating of the First Amendment principle of church-state separation.” The humanists took special offense to biblical terminology used to describe the mission to feed starving children. “The packages involved were called ‘manna’ packages, after the edible substances that, according to the Bible, God provided for the Israelites,” attorney Miller wrote. She was also dutifully offended that Calvary Lutheran Church – looked like a church, noting the “venue involved included extensive religious imagery and symbolism.” The AHA said the parent also complained about the event last year. “Thus, it is even more egregious that, after the parental complaint was made last year, you did nothing to remedy the problem, but instead suggested that the parent was misguided for complaining,” Miller wrote. AHA said they don’t have a problem feeding hungry children. They just have a problem doing it inside a “theologically-charged environment.” “We are not opposed to educating children about poverty around the world, nor do we object to their participating in a nonreligious program to provide assistance,” Miller wrote. from here "Very importantly, we fully understand that at least one purpose of this field trip was to have the children participate in charity work intended to assist poverty stricken people," she writes. "Such good intentions, however, can be pursued in innumerable other ways that do not involve immersing the unsuspecting children into a theologically-charged environment." |
No, my own bias is that any such organisations tend to be comprised of radical enthusiastic agenda seeking individuals, whatever the cause.
Poppykosh, they demanded no such thing, if someone has to lie to make a point then they have no point.
That is complete utter bull!
It's ridiculous that they even tried something like this, if it had been a Mosque the Christians would have been screaming bloody murder.
| “We believe that this activity was a service learning activity,” she told me. “There was absolutely no evangelizing or religious activity in the event.” |