Mooresville school sued over Bible classes

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061017/LOCAL/610170445

12:17 PM October 17, 2006
Mooresville school sued over Bible classes
By Staci Hupp

A Mooresville mother has sued her son's public school because she says it allows a religious group to teach students about the Bible on school grounds and singles out children who don't participate.

The mother wants Neil Armstrong Elementary School officials to stop signing up children for the religious education classes, an involvement which she says violates a constitutional separation between church and state. She also wants the program, hosted in a church trailer during school hours, to move out of the school's parking lot. The lawsuit does not identify the mother. (...)

"They are permissible as long as the school is not involved in any way," said Jacquelyn Bowie Suess, an American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana attorney who filed the complaint on behalf of the Mooresville mother. In Mooresville, "the problem is that it's taking place on school grounds, and that the school is so involved with it." (more at link)

There's 843,256 ways they could've held such classes in a way that doesn't break the law. But NOOOOO, they HAVE to force it on children who don't want it, of parents who don't want it, and intimidate them with peer pressure. How lovely.

[MadMaddie]

1. Ummm...why arent' they holding the classes at a church?

That is what the church is for right....

I wish someone would have the balls to say they want to teach classes of science at Churches....this would end this bullshit....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. 1 way down, 843,255 to go -nt

[MadMaddie]

3. This is going to reach a tipping point in this country.....

I hope it starts in November...

[Phredicles]

4. Neil Armstrong Elementary School?

That's one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. LOL

:thumbsup:

[LostinVA]

5. This has been going on in Staunton, VA, for years

It's still going on...

[tkmorris]

11. Ahhh, Staunton VA

Most of my mother's side of the family live there, or very nearby. A beautiful place, but I could never live there. The last family reunion I went to there was all I could stand. Nice folks but.... creepy? Is that the word I want here?

[wittsend]

7. I grew up down the street from this school..

,but actually went to another elementary about 3 miles away in the same school district.Always thought this was messed up but, I don't understand why they just didn't use the church that is right across the street from the school. At my school we went right next door to a small church every Wednesday for about an hour(Early 80's).Always felt like it was kind of inappropriate because the one kid that didn't get permission for this class was left in the classroom alone like a pariah while the rest of us went. I'm actually quite amazed that they're still having this class in this day and age. This area is a rural community that goes, without saying, Heavily Republican. I hope this gal lights there little sheltered Asses up for them. Forcing Christianity on kids is wrong and definitely not the place of the Public school system. Like I said, it was a Voluntary class that had a permission slip. But in this Community as a kid you were better off faking to be christian than to be singled out and treated like one of Satan's Spawns.

[Quantess]

8. It's hard to be a non-Christian kid sometimes.

Let's not make it any harder for them. Children of non-church-goers, agnostics, atheists, let alone children of other religions, already feel different enough. That's why separation of church and state is so necessary.

[sarcasmo]

9. Theocracy is on the March.

Kick and Nom.

[Zhade]

10. Good. Secularism works. It's the only way to thrive as a nation.

History has proven this to be as close to a maxim as human society can offer.