Summary: a 7-year old boy told a classmate that he didn’t go to church and didn’t believe in god. The classmate started to cry and the teacher, after finding out why, chastised the boy and had him shunned at lunch for three days until the parents got involved. Now, with the help of the ACLU, they are suing. Apparently, the principal thought the teacher perfectly correct.
As a resident I have to say that Fort Wayne is hippie-liberal compared to the towns surrounding it!
Darn. I was hoping they’d handcuff the little heathen.
I suspect that the teacher does not understand that she did something wrong and why it was wrong. I expect a non-apology apology any time now.
It was an object lesson for the child - to show what seperation from God is like, how he’ll feel like in hell when he goes there.
it was only three days - hell, Christ DIED for three days ya little punk!
He got better…
I grew up an atheist in Fort Wayne. Was never “shunned at lunch” over it, but looking back, I lost a lot of friends over it. My parents wouldn’t let one prospective boyfriend take me to his nondenominational church to see people speak in tongues. I sort of mind having missed that.
This is just another way in which Christians are persecuted. Why shouldn’t a 7 year old child be punished for questioning the existence of God? What’s next, evolution? Sex Ed? This is a Christian, God fearing country, just like it says in the Constitution. That’s what Freedom of Religion is all about, the freedom to believe to believe in God instead of being forced to be atheist like those godless communists at the ACLU. They should have nailed that kid to a cross, that would make a Christian out of him.
<cleans coffee off keyboard>
Man, I’m glad I don’t live in IN anymore.
A heathen wouldn’t be as bad. At least pagans believe in some kind of god.
Amen.
Good for them. I think most people don’t realize how self-sacrificing these kinds of suits are.
They probably aren’t going to win any real money from this, if they win any money at all. And they will likely face a lot of backlash in their community for it. Even people who don’t agree with the school will chastise these parents for wasting school resources. And it will cost them a lot of time and energy.
But they are absolutely right to take action when the school administrators wouldn’t.
And as a former resident of one of those surrounding towns…there’s a reason that I left.
What’s odd is that I attended a RC elementary school and never witnessed anything like that.
I know what we can do. Let’s PhotoShop a picture of the teacher and principal with a dead lion. That will teach them.
And a dead robot.
:dubious:
Say what you want about the tenets of Christianity, at least it’s an ethos.
I guess showing compassion and forgiveness was out of the question.
Not to be an ungodly PITA, but what we have here are allegations in a lawsuit (while I suspect they are substantially correct, nothing has been proven yet). Maybe the “victim” was a little arch-fiend who told his classmate she was a horse’s ass and that Satan would get her for believing in God.
I used to live in Indianapolis, and can assure Dopers that there is plenty of unbelief in the Hoosier State, not to mention lurid vice and various other sorts of hanky-panky.