The Gaytheist Agenda

When I was in the 5th grade I recall getting out of school one day and encountering a Gideons representative handing out lime-green New Testaments on the sidewalk. Flash forward more years than I care to count and Gideons International is still giving miniature Bibles to 5th graders. Of course they’re well within their 1st Amendment right to do so provided they’re doing so on public property. However that wasn’t the case in the South Iron School District of Missouri.

For more than three decades, the South Iron School District in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St. Louis in the heart of the Bible Belt, allowed representatives of Gideons International to give away Bibles in fifth-grade classrooms.
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The district altered its policy, saying the Gideons and others were still welcome to distribute Bibles or other literature before or after school or during lunch break, but not in classrooms.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry ruled both practices were illegal and granted a permanent injunction.

The purpose of both practices “is the promotion of Christianity by distributing Bibles to elementary school students,” Perry wrote. “The policy has the principle or primary effect of advancing religion by conveying a message of endorsement to elementary school children.”

Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based law group that represented the school district, said he would appeal.

“I think the current policy creates an open forum that allows secular as well as religious persons or groups to access the forum to distribute information,” Staver said. “The court has clearly misread the First Amendment and the cases regarding free speech.”

Technically the policy allows secular and other religious groups to access the forum to distribute information. We’ve seen before where that goes.

Some teachers in the Albemarle School District in Virginia are rebelling against their managers’ orders to hand out to students as young as kindergarten a promotion for a summer camp that advocates for “Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever…”

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It was the same school district that WND earlier reported was distributing publicity about a “Pagan Christmas ritual” being held in the community.

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The earlier advertisement was from a group called NatureSpirit from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, a Unitarian Universalist congregation that also teaches “Exploring Islam,” “Women Weaving Wisdom,” “Discovering the Healing Power of Dreams” and other religious subjects.

Yes, they want religion promoted–but only their religion. If they get the tiniest whiff of any other religion (or freethinking) being promoted all hell breaks loose.

Kudos to District Judge Catherine Perry. Let Gideons International hand out their little Bibles in church or on the streets. Children shouldn’t be indoctrinated on the taxpayer dime.

A proposal in St. Charles MO would ban swearing, table-dancing, profane music and drinking contests in bars.

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City officials contend the bill is needed to keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area gets a little too lively on some nights.

City Councilman Richard Veit said he was prompted to propose the bill after complaints about bad bar behavior. He says it will give police some rules to enforce when things get too rowdy.

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A meeting to discuss the proposal is set for Jan. 14.

Hey, I’ve got a better idea. Why not close down the bars altogether and send everybody to church instead? There won’t be any worry about things getting “too lively” then.

Aye caramba.