Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Crazy Crap / Hargrove It's a Public School-Sponsored Baptism Party!
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
While the fringe (and even respectable media) work themselves into apoplectic fits of indignation over potential socialist indoctrination of our impressionable school-age youth by the evil Obama, one Kentucky school district is taking it to the next level: Actual indoctrination of impressionable school-age kids! Only it's acceptable, see? Because it's Christian.
A Breckenridge County High School football coach took the school bus and 20 football players to an impromptu religious revival. Nearly half of them were baptized. But it gets better! The freakin' superintendent of the school district was there, praising Jesus right along with them! I hate to resort to barbarous, foreshortened blasphemy, but OMFG.
Of course, the coaches claim everything was kosher because they paid for the gas (that went into the public school bus) and attendance was optional. Right, because a high school-age football player who desperately wants to be part of a cohesive team won't feel pressured at all to participate in a field trip endorsed by the man in the ultimate position of power (the coach) and the superintendent no less.
One parent is already pretty pissed off: "Nobody should push their faith on anybody else," concerned mom Michelle Ammons told the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Because the Breckenridge County School District appears to be clearly violating the principle of the separation of church and state by taking school-sanctioned Jesus field trips, we here at Pith hope Michelle sues the bejesus out of them.
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Ha, he lured them there with the promise of a free steak dinner! What kind of church service has EVER dished out steaks? Delicious fried chicken or burgers, maybe. But not steaks.
And double ha, no permission slips. How impromptu was this if there was no time for permission slips but you've got a bus already booked?
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Which state is a bigger Island of Sanity now, huh? Kentucky is the biggest IOS in the whole gosh-dern country!
Suck on it, Tennessee!
Yup. you know that line separating church and state? they definitely just crossed it. It would have been fine except for the bus.
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Yeah, about the only thing worse than this Breckenridge County nonsense is your sophomoric presentation, Brantley.
"But it gets better! The freakin' superintendent of the school district was there, praising Jesus right along with them! I hate to resort to barbarous, foreshortened blasphemy, but OMFG."
"Of course, the coaches claim everything was kosher..."
"One parent is already pretty pissed off...."
"appears to be clearly violating the principle of the separation of church and state by taking school-sanctioned Jesus field trips, we here at Pith hope Michelle sues the bejesus out of them."
Did they teach you that fine style at Columbia, Brantley?
"Of course, the coaches claim everything was kosher..."
Well, at least if it's "kosher" we have two religions being represented!
Right, because a high school-age football player who desperately wants to be part of a cohesive team won't feel pressured at all to participate in a field trip endorsed by the man in the ultimate position of power (the coach) and the superintendent no less.
Even beyond that, for the most competitive of high school sports, like football and basketball, it's the coach who's responsible for sending the athletes' tapes off to the college scouts. You would NOT want the coach to think that you're not "being a team player" or that you have an "attitude problem." Something like this could never be "strictly voluntary."
Oh, and the best part? This school required permission slips for Obama's speech:
http://www.webster-retort.com/2009/09/breaking-ky-school-district-official-ok.html
So some forms of forced indoctrination are ok I suppose.
In the Supreme Court case a couple of years ago involving Brentwood Academy vs. TSSAA, the court ruled in favor of TSSAA largely on the finding that a crucial letter had been signed "your coach" by Carlton Flatt, thereby creating a strong impression that boys who were not yet enrolled at the school but who had paid non-binding deposits had best turn out for spring football drills. It is exactly this type of authority that the coach in Kentucky exercised here -- and which I suspect will be the decisive factor if this incident becomes a legal case.
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Uriah, did you choose that moniker because you did not desire that anyone take you seriously? Or, were you having reference to the band? (I bet they know who Uriah Heep was.)
The bus trip was a triumph of form over substance Christianity. Are teenage boys really going to be saved by one surprise bus trip? Really? I suppose if you belong to the Jack Chick school of Christianity it is possible.
My question is, if what the coach was doing was so good, why did he feel compelled to "fib" about what he was doing?
Karl, I know Uriah. I chose it for a reason so self-evident that it's apparently lost on you.
well im glad a writer from the scene can talk about the constitution when they see fit. When you go bitching about guns next time remember they are protected by an amendment,where as your causes (queer rights, abortion, yada yada yada...) are merely people reading too far into the text. No where are liberal causes guarenteed. Alas you show your true colors when talking about lawsuits. Thats what is wrong with this country you idiot. Malpractice, personal injury, and even being offended is cause for a case these days. You are a pussy. You probably cry at the thought of physical confrontation.
Nate...sounds like it's clock cleaning time for you. Not a moment too soon. Asshat.
