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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 12:12 AM Apr 2013

Mississippi school forces students to listen to christian lecture while teachers block exits

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/26/mississippi-school-forces-students-to-listen-to-christian-lecture-teachers-block-exits/

Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi is under fire for allegedly forcing its students to attend and listen to Christian lectures during three assemblies held in April alone. Worse yet, students were barred from leaving and teachers blocked the exits to prevent any of them from doing so. One student was able to film one of the assemblies. As a result, a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the students by the American Humanist Association. The organization filed the suit on Wednesday.

According to Raw Story,

“The assemblies showed a video laced with Christian messages about overcoming personal hardships through Jesus Christ and were allegedly led by local church officials.”

These church officials spoke about Jesus Christ dying “for our sins” and that the only way “to atone” for those sins is to accept Jesus. In other words, Christian officials were trying to indoctrinate students into the Christian religion whether they liked it or not.

Under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, such assemblies are unconstitutional because they violate the religious freedom of those who do not want to be in attendance. And since the school forced all of the students to be there and physically blocked them from leaving, these students were held against their will. That action is known as unlawful restraint and it is a felony. So this high school basically committed a crime in the effort to convert non-Christians to Christianity.
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Mississippi school forces students to listen to christian lecture while teachers block exits (Original Post) WillParkinson Apr 2013 OP
I'm just shocked that it would be humanists that would move to protect basic American freedoms. dimbear Apr 2013 #1
Makes one wonder if they're just as fictional as their god. cleanhippie Apr 2013 #4
Dumbassery in action. mbperrin Apr 2013 #2
Now you know damned well Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #11
All I have to say is defacto7 Apr 2013 #3
-_- LostOne4Ever Apr 2013 #5
The thing you always have to remember about fundies skepticscott Apr 2013 #8
Still trying to convert by force. JNelson6563 Apr 2013 #6
It's fighting against things like this skepticscott Apr 2013 #7
They're going to get their asses sued off... Jasana Apr 2013 #9
"What has 4 'eyes' and still can't see..." onager Apr 2013 #10

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
1. I'm just shocked that it would be humanists that would move to protect basic American freedoms.
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 12:37 AM
Apr 2013

Wouldn't everyone have expected that liberal Christians would have been johnny on the spot?
I'm sure they outnumber us vastly in Mississippi.





mbperrin

(7,672 posts)
2. Dumbassery in action.
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 02:09 AM
Apr 2013

How's that "government school" working out down there? Why didn't some good old 2nd Amendment guys break in there with guns to protect the children from a violation of their rights? Isn't that what they say they buy all those guns for?

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
11. Now you know damned well
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:46 PM
Apr 2013

that these 2nd Amendment screechers have never really read the Constitution! They don't know that "freedom of religion" is actually listed before their right to "bear arms". All they know is what they have been told by their talking heads, and then they just repeat that over and over.....and it makes it all true.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
3. All I have to say is
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 02:43 AM
Apr 2013

Laws were broken.

Crimes were committed.

Law suits and jail time should be dealt to all who organized and participated in this offense.

If this is let to slide... America my friends, is dead.

LostOne4Ever

(9,267 posts)
5. -_-
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 05:10 AM
Apr 2013

They have a video tape.
They have the Principles Email.
They have the testimonial of students.
They have the testimonial of Parents.

And yet they are still denying it. They are calling it a VOLUNTARY student led assembly.

I hope the student takes them to the cleaners.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
8. The thing you always have to remember about fundies
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 10:29 AM
Apr 2013

is that they don't care about the truth and they don't care about the law. They just care about getting their way.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
7. It's fighting against things like this
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 10:28 AM
Apr 2013

that makes Richard Dawkins and everyone who doesn't condemn him a bigot. At least in the eyes of some arseholes here.

Jasana

(490 posts)
9. They're going to get their asses sued off...
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 10:53 AM
Apr 2013

and rightly so. With the kind of kid I was back in high school, I would have just barged right through the blocking teachers. Now with their zero tolerance policy I probably would have been arrested. I would so hate to be a kid in school these days.

onager

(9,356 posts)
10. "What has 4 'eyes' and still can't see..."
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:07 PM
Apr 2013


But it's only ceremonial, right? No big deal. Etc. Etc.

Here, to take your mind off this trivial BS - enjoy a cheerful, upbeat music video, by a young woman as her high-school English project...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=k-c80TeoonM
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