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This story is now making the rounds at places like Huffington Post etc. This blog reveals the name of the boy who complained. It's nicely done.
This is the Student Who Blew the Whistle on Muldrow High Schools Ten Commandments Plaques
May 11, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 382 Comments
Earlier today, I posted about the Ten Commandments plaques that hang in every classroom in Muldrow High School (Oklahoma). As the story went, after an anonymous atheist student contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the FFRF contacted the school and the plaques will now almost certainly be taken down after the school board discusses the incident at Mondays meeting.
But the plaques wont be coming down without a fight.
Its Christianity under attack within our own country, said Josh Moore, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muldrow, Okla.
Parent Denise Armer told KHOG she supports the students efforts to save the Ten Commandment plaques.
If other kids dont want to read the Ten Commandments, then they dont have to, she said. But that doesnt mean that they have to make everyone else do what they want.
I guess no one taught these Christians the way the law works. Give it a couple of days, though, because theyre about to find out.
More: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/05/11/this-is-the-student-who-blew-the-whistle-on-muldrow-high-schools-ten-commandments-plaques/
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)But if kids in high school still do not know the Ten Commandments by heart then I would say "why bother".They must have gone through years of Sunday school with that list being pounded in their heads like an anvil chorus. If they want to cheat,act like a bully,be a class clown they could have those plaques on the walls like wall paper and it won't teach them a thing. A kid has to want to follow them. You can steer them in the right direction but once they "drive" what direction they take is up to them and no amount of turning public schools into Sunday schools is going to change their high school attitudes.
peace13
(11,076 posts)No Kill, no lie, no porking the neighbor or his wife....this is all common decency. Of course the honor god issue is different but for the most part people know what the right thing to do is....the hard part is doing it. The threat of a spook in the sky just keeps those with no moral compass honest!
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)*facepalm* These kids need some civics lessons.
trumad
(41,692 posts)then let's hang this on their walls.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I want to see pants actually being pooped. Islam only makes them a little gassy.
Gman
(24,780 posts)No perceived slight passes without raising money off of it.