Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Anything but the Bible!

Students at Karns Elementary School in Knoxville, TN, are allowed to read anything but the Bible during recess.

Intolerance in the Bible Belt:
Instead of bullying, fighting or other typical recess pastimes, Luke Whitson was reading. But his choice of literature has stirred the constitutional and cultural sensitivities of a public school principal.

Karns Elementary School Principal Cathy Summa 'abruptly interrupted certain fourth-grade students while they were in the midst of a Bible discussion during recess, demanded that they stop their activity at once, put their Bibles away and, from that point forward, cease from bringing their Bibles to school.' So, the Pentagon buys Korans and prayer carpets for Islamist terrorists, but a fourth-grader isn't allowed to read the Bible during recess? What wonderful ways our society condones stupendous hypocrisy.

The Knoxville school system argues that recess is not 'free time,' during which, apparently, students are considered out of the classroom environment and allowed to engage in harmless pursuits, like playing, gossiping and -- yes -- reading.

It's a fine mess that liberal activists have made for us: Defend the right to practice all religions -- except Christianity. They fight to fund government agencies that support artists who dip the cross in urine or splatter Mary with cow feces, but call upon the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions whenever a Koran is accidentally "kicked." It's unfortunate that young Luke has received such an early lesson in liberal intolerance.
From the Washington Times editorial page. Text of the Alliance Defense Fund's complaint is here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is so unreasonable, it's very hard to believe it even happened. A perfert illustration of the double standards that prevail.