Parents End Mosque Field Trips Because "Pushing Tolerance" Is Bad

[cbayer]

http://gawker.com/parents-end-mosque-field-trips-because-pushing-toleran-1374513673


LACEY DONOHUE Yesterday 9:20pm



Thanks to the watchful stepfather of a Henderson High School student in Hendersonville, Tennessee, teachers will no longer be “pushing Islamic tolerance” on the students in the form of religious field trips.

Mike Conner, concerned his stepdaughter would be exposed to knowledge in a 36-week world studies course, got angry at back-to-school night when he heard of a planned Sept. 4 field trip to a mosque and a Hindu temple. So he spoke up because, you know, “If we as parents don’t begin speaking up, no one will.”

Oh, it gets better.

The honors course – which is an elective – has been offered by Hendersonville High for a decade. The curriculum includes world religions, and students spend three weeks on that topic, learning about Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, said school system spokesman Jeremy Johnson. In the past, the students have typically visited a Jewish synagogue, a Hindu temple and a Muslim mosque without parental complaints.

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[Laelth]

1. Sad when intolerance is a virtue. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[cbayer]

2. Exposure is exactly what this story needs.

If this dad wants to take this bigoted position, the more people that know about it the better.

[Laelth]

3. Agreed. Happy to kick. n//t

-Laelth

[skepticscott]

4. He's just an extremist

so why are you focusing on him?

[madrchsod]

5. ?..