Teaching "Christian" values: animal cruelty [strong content]

[Ford Prefect]

Just in case you think that torture and cruelty are strictly for adults, I'm pleased to announce that a teacher at a Jacksonville FL "Christian" school has now incorporated those values into his curriculum: feeding a live rabbit to a python in front of 10th grade students as an after-school activity.

That's bad enough, but one student captured the "lesson" on video and posted it to YouTube. And the local daily - {Florida}{Fascist} Times-Union is more than happy to share the images with the world on their web: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052607/met_172900458.shtml

The accompanying article includes the following spin: " 'The instructor involved did not use the best discernment in allowing the demonstration,' Clay Lindstam, Trinity's administrator said in a written statement issued to the media Friday afternoon by Daniel Riddick, the school's communications director."

Ya' think?

I'm sure, by now, the instructor has been counseled to make sure there are no camcorders or cell-phone cameras nearby the next time he decides to teach his "laughing and screaming" students how much fun it is to watch one creature squeeze the life out of another.

Yes, I know - snakes eat rodents in the real world, but there are other ways to edu-tain teenagers than to stage a live demonstration.


Here's the disturbing image:

[jilln]

1. This was a radio stunt in Dallas a few years ago

We only found out about 30 minutes before and tried to stop it but the station did it. Apparently they were traumatized afterwards, because the rabbit screamed and tried to get away. Imagine that! Apparently they never thought the rabbit might want to live. They apologized afterwards but why can't people think ahead a little? It's absolutely shocking what people do to animals - both themselves and by paying others to do it - without even really knowing what they are doing. And when given the chance to SEE what happens to animals, they revert back to the "PeTA bad" talking points. Anything to keep from having to actually SEE what happens to animals.