Fox News Host To Atheists: Accept The ‘Culture’ Of Jesus In Schools When You Come To The South

[big_dog]

Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday lashed out at atheists who had asked that Christian plaques be removed from public schools in Texas, saying that they “need to understand the culture” in the South. Earlier this year, the Midlothian Independent School District covered Christian plaques at two schools after the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatened to sue. But parents and students protested, and the Midlothian ISD board voted to uncover the plaques.

The FFRF has said that it was considering moving forward with a lawsuit, but the board declined to take up the matter at Monday night’s meeting. Tiffany Davlin, who organized protests to keep the plaques, told Fox News in a Wednesday interview that the schools should have to keep the plaque because a majority of the parents were Christians and approved of them. “We’re all about wanting to see the cause of Christ go further,” Pastor Justin Coffman, whose children attend Midlothian ISD schools, explained to Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt. “We want to see the cause of Christ in more public arenas in the American culture. We don’t want to take things away from. We want to see Christ in our schools.”

“This is the same group that has attacked other schools in other states,” Earhardt said of the FFRF, pointing out that a coach at Clemson University had been asked to stop holding Bible studies for students. The South Carolina native continued: “And I think, growing up in the South, people in Wisconsin, these atheists in other cities need to understand the culture in the South, and how church is a very integral part of our childhood and growing up, and it’s a very important part for the Southern culture.”

Davlin said that she was upset that a secular group could “come into a community, which is a strong Christian-majority community, and say what we can or cannot have.” “Attempt to bully us,” Coffman opined. “Yeah,” Earhardt agreed. “Yeah, Justin, you touched on it: the War on Christianity.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/fox-news-host-to-atheists-accept-the-culture-of-jesus-in-schools-when-you-come-to-the-south/

[hifiguy]

1. If you are "seeing" Jebus in your schools

perhaps an anti-hallucinogenic medication is called for.

[LonePirate]

2. Yet another instance of RWNJs ignoring the Constitution except for the 2A

[Arugula Latte]

3. She needs to accept the secular culture of the Founding Fathers.

Idiot.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Fox has an agenda.

[brooklynite]

4. So, Koran quotes are okay in schools in Michigan?

[superpatriotman]

5. Jesus' Culture?

So, stone-age, Roman-controlled Palestine then?

[Arugula Latte]

6. Well, Bronze Age, really.

And we all have to become goat herders.

[Adrahil]

15. WRONG!

It was the Iron Age by the time Jesus was around.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. When I was in high school in Texas way back in the Dark Ages,

it wasn't just "accept the culture of Jesus," it was "accept the culture of Southern Baptist Jesus." I was in my school's a Capella choir, and besides all the religious songs we learned, we were booked into several Baptist churches to sing when we were on our annual trips. It never seemed right to me as a Methodist.

[hifiguy]

14. Musta been this Jesus

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Why, yes, I believe that's him.

[longship]

8. Atheists to Faux News Host: Respect the First Amendment if you want to call yourself an American.

Disgustipated!

[jwirr]

9. Dear Faux, which denomination is going to be in charge of this religious education? I am sorry to

say that I may be pulling my children out of your school if it is not mine.

[muntrv]

11. The atheists should just tell the fundies "Jesus was a man of color" and watch their heads

explode.

[Initech]

12. He didn't say that we could pretend. So...

[Bonx]

13. "culture in the South, and how church is a very integral part "

My atheist, public-school, child-self remembers this all too well.
Sucked.

[logosoco]

16. Wow, I did not know FOX had a segment called "the fight for faith"

but I guess I shouldn't be surprised (obviously I don't watch and don't know their programming!).
I feel bad for these people, partly because they feel like someone is "attacking" them, but also because they don't really understand how this country should work. If they want this in their school, they can have it. In a private school. This is pretty simple.

I had to laugh at how the host talked about those atheists up in Wisconsin, my, that's a thousand miles away! I also noticed how the "mom" kind of stumbled a bit when she had to say Christians were a majority in the community. She can't quite grasp the idea that there might actually be people who aren't!

[AzDar]

18. Hmmm. Sounds much like the refrain spewed in the Antebellum South regarding...

some people they thought were their property...Damn Yankees just don't understand, y'all.