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Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday lashed out at atheists who had asked that Christian plaques be removed from public schools in Texas, saying that they need to understand the culture in the South. Earlier this year, the Midlothian Independent School District covered Christian plaques at two schools after the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatened to sue. But parents and students protested, and the Midlothian ISD board voted to uncover the plaques.
The FFRF has said that it was considering moving forward with a lawsuit, but the board declined to take up the matter at Monday nights meeting. Tiffany Davlin, who organized protests to keep the plaques, told Fox News in a Wednesday interview that the schools should have to keep the plaque because a majority of the parents were Christians and approved of them. Were all about wanting to see the cause of Christ go further, Pastor Justin Coffman, whose children attend Midlothian ISD schools, explained to Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt. We want to see the cause of Christ in more public arenas in the American culture. We dont want to take things away from. We want to see Christ in our schools.
This is the same group that has attacked other schools in other states, Earhardt said of the FFRF, pointing out that a coach at Clemson University had been asked to stop holding Bible studies for students. The South Carolina native continued: And I think, growing up in the South, people in Wisconsin, these atheists in other cities need to understand the culture in the South, and how church is a very integral part of our childhood and growing up, and its a very important part for the Southern culture.
Davlin said that she was upset that a secular group could come into a community, which is a strong Christian-majority community, and say what we can or cannot have. Attempt to bully us, Coffman opined. Yeah, Earhardt agreed. Yeah, Justin, you touched on it: the War on Christianity. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/fox-news-host-to-atheists-accept-the-culture-of-jesus-in-schools-when-you-come-to-the-south/
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)perhaps an anti-hallucinogenic medication is called for.
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Idiot.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)brooklynite
(94,502 posts)superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)So, stone-age, Roman-controlled Palestine then?
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)And we all have to become goat herders.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)It was the Iron Age by the time Jesus was around.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)it wasn't just "accept the culture of Jesus," it was "accept the culture of Southern Baptist Jesus." I was in my school's a Capella choir, and besides all the religious songs we learned, we were booked into several Baptist churches to sing when we were on our annual trips. It never seemed right to me as a Methodist.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Disgustipated!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)say that I may be pulling my children out of your school if it is not mine.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)explode.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Bonx
(2,053 posts)My atheist, public-school, child-self remembers this all too well.
Sucked.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)but I guess I shouldn't be surprised (obviously I don't watch and don't know their programming!).
I feel bad for these people, partly because they feel like someone is "attacking" them, but also because they don't really understand how this country should work. If they want this in their school, they can have it. In a private school. This is pretty simple.
I had to laugh at how the host talked about those atheists up in Wisconsin, my, that's a thousand miles away! I also noticed how the "mom" kind of stumbled a bit when she had to say Christians were a majority in the community. She can't quite grasp the idea that there might actually be people who aren't!
AzDar
(14,023 posts)some people they thought were their property...Damn Yankees just don't understand, y'all.