Religious extremism - wrapped in the American flag style:
A high school in central Mississippi allegedly forced students to watch a Christian video and listen to church officials preach about Jesus Christ.
The American Humanist Association’s legal center filed a lawsuit against Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood on Wednesday, accusing the school of violating the student’s First Amendment rights.
The school has held at least three mandatory assemblies about finding hope in Jesus Christ this month, according to the lawsuit. The assemblies showed a video laced with Christian messages about overcoming personal hardships through Jesus Christ and were allegedly led by local church officials.
“See, before Jesus came, innocent blood had to be shed for our sins,” one of the church officials allegedly told the students. “There had to be an animal that was sacrificed to atone for our sin. There had to be innocent blood. So Jesus came and he was the innocent blood because he lived a perfect life. He was that innocent blood. See the last few years of Jesus’ life he traveled from region to region and country to country and he had 12 disciples that followed him everywhere. And he talked about the hope he was bringing.”
The assemblies concluded with a prayer and teachers blocked the exits to prevent students from leaving, the lawsuit claimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/mississippi-high-school-forced-students-to-attend-christian-lecture/
The Gadfly wonders if any of his conservative friends can explain the difference between the Afghanistan/Pakistan Taliban forcing young people at the point of a gun to adhere to their warped ideology and these "good" Christian educators using intimidation by their official authority to indoctrinate other people's children in to their warped religious ideology?
And doesn't your heart just soar at the thought of these "educators" filling these impressionable young minds with visions of animal sacrifices and the spilling of of "innocent blood" to atone for wrongdoing? So precious!
If any justice is to come from this lawsuit, it will be that the school officials who condoned this and any of the educators who willfully were involved in preventing students from leaving the assembly should be relieved of duty and never be allowed to set foot on publicly funded school property ever again.
----TFG
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