Schools ban Gore film (Jesus, Earth, creation, bible, sex) - Page 2

Booko · #11 01-26-2007, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by PureX

Willful ignorance never rests. How did one parent become so powerful that his complaint sets the policy for these schools? What what the heck is a "Federal Way" school, anyway? Is that a town name? Or are these some sort of private cult schools?

Hey, in my local school one parent complained that Halloween was "satanic" and so Halloween parties were off.

Christmas parties continued, of course.

School administrators are scared stupid of being sued and of bad publicity.

They're not so scared about putting out ignorant graduates.

Booko · #12 01-26-2007, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisP

Don't worry... we'll breed them out eventually. In the mean time, consider yourself lucky it's not the 16th century. We'd all be hung

You missed the part in the article where it mentions the complaining parent had 7 kids...

Human · #13 01-26-2007, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Booko

Hey, in my local school one parent complained that Halloween was "satanic" and so Halloween parties were off.

Christmas parties continued, of course.

School administrators are scared stupid of being sued and of bad publicity.

They're not so scared about putting out ignorant graduates.

It's scary isn't it? If this continues, I will be worried for our next generation...

DeepShadow · #14 01-26-2007, 08:50 PM

FWIW, "Federal Way" is a city in Washington State.

ChrisP · #15 01-26-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Booko

You missed the part in the article where it mentions the complaining parent had 7 kids...

Oh no, I saw it... stupid people live forever too... because they think less.

astarath · #16 01-26-2007, 09:45 PM

why not? I thought i'd heard it all before but it goes to show you god really does have a weird sense of humour

Jaiket · #17 01-26-2007, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Booko

Hey, in my local school one parent complained that Halloween was "satanic" and so Halloween parties were off.

It's a crime that I happened to be born in a place where these people are uncommon. I'd give my right brain (or whichever part deal in reason) to live amongst these clowns.

astarath · #18 01-26-2007, 10:03 PM

it's amazing what fear can do to people. Especially theists, as soon as a little fear trickles our way we forget all the wisdom God has given us and we start acting like monkeys at the zoo, jumpin all over our cages adn when it's all over we might as well have been pickin our butt

MaddLlama · #19 01-26-2007, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Booko

Hey, in my local school one parent complained that Halloween was "satanic" and so Halloween parties were off.

Christmas parties continued, of course.

School administrators are scared stupid of being sued and of bad publicity.

They're not so scared about putting out ignorant graduates.

We had the opposite problem when I was in school. I lived in a highly Jewish area, and for winter chorus one year a number of parents complained that "Silent Night" was on the playlist, and eventually what happened was they cut out all the religious Christmas songs, and we sang winter songs, and two songs that were partially in Hebrew. The amount of politics in schools is so amazing that it's painful. I see it even moreso now that most of my friends are teachers.

People often need to be reminded that they do not have the right to not be offended.