Freedom From Religion Foundation doing the Lord's work

[Blake]

" Controversy erupted in September when parents observed Prosper High School principal Greg Wright speak to students about how his Christian faith inspires him and what prayer means in his daily life,*reported KXAS in Dallas. A parent complainant, Janie Oyakawa, said the principal's participation would alienate non-Christian students.

She filed a complaint to the FFRF—an organization that had made Texas headlines before for challenging religious expressions in public institutions. In 2015, it filed complaints against an East Texas school districts*for daily Bible readings*with morning announcements, and later against a North Texas police department for printing "In God We Trust" on fleet vehicles.

RELATED:*Texas police chief tersely defends 'In God We Trust' decals

In*a September 28 letter*to Prosper ISD, the FFRF wrote, "School staffers cannot lead, encourage, or participate in student-led religious activities. And any religious event or religious clubs at a PISD school must be genuinely student led."


http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-high-school-atheist-christian-church-and-6591201.php

[Blake]

I'll never get actively involved with these rabble rousers but I approve.

Amen.

[Spurminator]

He showed up at a pre-school prayer rally and talked about his faith. This is different from leading a prayer over a loudspeaker during school. Silly fight to pick.

[TheSanityAnnex]

" Controversy erupted in September when parents observed Prosper High School principal Greg Wright speak to students about how his Christian faith inspires him and what prayer means in his daily life,*reported KXAS in Dallas. A parent complainant, Janie Oyakawa, said the principal's participation would alienate non-Christian students.

She filed a complaint to the FFRF—an organization that had made Texas headlines before for challenging religious expressions in public institutions. In 2015, it filed complaints against an East Texas school districts*for daily Bible readings*with morning announcements, and later against a North Texas police department for printing "In God We Trust" on fleet vehicles.

RELATED:*Texas police chief tersely defends 'In God We Trust' decals

In*a September 28 letter*to Prosper ISD, the FFRF wrote, "School staffers cannot lead, encourage, or participate in student-led religious activities. And any religious event or religious clubs at a PISD school must be genuinely student led."


http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-high-school-atheist-christian-church-and-6591201.php

When my non-Christian self doesn't want to feel alienated by Christians I simply avoid prayer gatherings. The anti-Christians are ass batshit crazy as the Christians.

[Blake]

He showed up at a pre-school prayer rally and talked about his faith. This is different from leading a prayer over a loudspeaker during school. Silly fight to pick.

It's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things but at the end of the day, he shouldn't be there preaching in his official capacity as public school principal.

[Blake]

The anti-Christians are ass batshit crazy as the Christians.

The difference being one group leaning on the Bible for guidance, the other group leaning on the Constitution.

[Clipper Nation]

I'll never get actively involved with these rabble rousers but I approve.

Amen.
Why not? Tyrone won't let you out of the cucktainer to work with them?

[TheSanityAnnex]

The difference being one group leaning on the Bible for guidance, the other group leaning on the Constitution.
In this case one group sought to be offended. Don't want to hear a prayer in the morning and feel alienated as an athirst don't attend the fucking morning prayer group.

[Ignignokt]

Why not? Tyrone won't let you out of the cucktainer to work with them?

[Blake]

^ on cue, like cuckwork

[Blake]

In this case one group sought to be offended. Don't want to hear a prayer in the morning and feel alienated as an athirst don't attend the fucking morning prayer group.

If an atheist kid is going to school early and walks by to hear the principal preaching on school grounds, he has a constitutional right to be offended.

[TheSanityAnnex]

If an atheist kid is going to school early and walks by to hear the principal preaching on school grounds, he has a constitutional right to be offended.

Or don't be a faggot and continue about your day like every other unoffended atheist kid that walked by the same prayer group did that morning. I'm so tired of the pussification of society. Everything is now offensive.

[boutons_deux]

A govt employee promoting a religion on govt property is illegal, pussies.

[Blake]

Or don't be a faggot and continue about your day like every other unoffended atheist kid that walked by the same prayer group did that morning. I'm so tired of the pussification of society. Everything is now offensive.

meh. there's just no need for it.

If it was a Muslim preaching principal and a bunch of Christians got upset, I bet you wouldn't call them pussies. But we'll never know so that's that.

[TheSanityAnnex]

meh. there's just no need for it.

If it was a Muslim preaching principal and a bunch of Christians got upset, I bet you wouldn't call them pussies. But we'll never know so that's that.

You are right I wouldn't call them pussies I would call the complaining Christian a faggot. Equal opportunity basher here.

[Blake]

You are right I wouldn't call them pussies I would call the complaining Christian a faggot. Equal opportunity basher here.

well you have that right to call them faggots and pussies. But you lose that right as a school principal.

[TheSanityAnnex]

well you have that right to call them faggots and pussies. But you lose that right as a school principal.
Aren't your kids at at private Christian school?

[Blake]

Aren't your kids at at private Christian school?

Yup

[TheSanityAnnex]

Yup
When your children come home from school do you do a daily unindoctrination and let them know that the school daddy is paying for so they can have good teachers and better classmates is really full of crazy people who hate blacks and love guns?

[z0sa]

Pussy shit, quite honestly. Stop being offended by the vast majority of people who believe in God.

[boutons_deux]

Pussy shit, quite honestly. Stop being offended by the vast majority of people who believe in God.

straw man. the offense is a taxpayer-paid employee, in official authority, preaching on govt property to kids.

Govt employees can believe in whatever religious shit, but don't preach, proselytize on govt property to public school kids.

[pgardn]

Aren't your kids at at private Christian school?


There are some absolutely fantastic private Christian schools.
In SA and surrounding areas anyways.

Just because they teach about Christ does not automatically mean one can't get a good education.
But why am I responding to you...

This is for the board.

[DisAsTerBot]

went to a private catholic school. It's what made me atheist tbh

[Blake]

When your children come home from school do you do a daily unindoctrination and let them know that the school daddy is paying for so they can have good teachers and better classmates is really full of crazy people who hate blacks and love guns?

No

[Blake]

went to a private catholic school. It's what made me atheist tbh

I went to private Christian school too.

I encourage my kid to keep asking questions in Bible class when something doesn't make sense.

[Spurminator]

Oh, great...
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/39950453-story

[DisAsTerBot]

lol stupid kid still didn't learn what a FACT was

[Spurminator]

lol stupid kid still didn't learn what a FACT was

She won't need them when she's an adult.

[Blake]

Oh, great...
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/39950453-story


They were really really upset.* Jordan told me that one kid slammed her books on the desk* that she wanted it [the discussion] to stop. Another kid went home crying," Chantel Wooley said.

Pussies

[boutons_deux]

when something doesn't make sense.

NOTHING does, it's all marketing myth in the NT and outright craziness in the OT.

[mingus]

He may very well be a good dude, but religion doesn't belong in schools. If you permiss him to do it you can't in good conscience protest if a Muslim doing it too. Unless you make it about Christianity vs. Islam.

[Blake]

By way of introduction, the FFRF is a bunch of perpetually offended atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers that hasn’t met a lawsuit they couldn’t file. And they become especially grumpy grinches at Christmas time.On Wednesday they filed a federal lawsuit against Concord Community Schools in Elkhart, Ind. on behalf of an unnamed student who happens to be a performer in the district’s Christmas Spectacular.

The FFRF is demanding an injunction that would forbid the school from “presenting the portion of the Christmas Spectacular with the live Nativity Scene and the telling of the story of the birth of Jesus.”

Yes, friends – the FFRF wants to silence the Christmas story.“It is illegal for a public school to endorse religion to students by organizing a religious performance, such as acting out the exclusively Christian legend of Jesus’ birth,” FFRF attorney Sam Grover wrote in a Sept. 8 letter to the school district . “Centering the high school’s holiday concert around the nativity is illegal even if participation in the nativity scene is necessary.”

Unlike many educators, the Concord School Board decided to stand up to the out-of-town bullies and refused to comply.“For more than 30 years, the Spectacular has been an important part of the Concord High School holiday experience,” Superintendent John Trout told the Elkhart Truth. “It will continue to be so.”

Finally!

A school district willing to tell the Freedom From Religion Foundation to go jingle their bells somewhere else.Hence, the lawsuit.“Concord Community Schools cannot host a celebration of the Christmas holiday in a religious context, rather than a secular celebration,” Grover wrote.

The lawsuit was filled with all sorts of damning evidence – including accusations the young people sang songs like, “Joy to the World” and “Silent Night.” Their investigation uncovered appearances by the Virgin Mary, shepherds and other “biblical figures.”

Their breathless documentation of the Living Nativity would make the toes curl on any godless atheist or free-thinker.

"No other faith than the Christian faith has ever been represented in performances staged at the Christmas Spectacular,” the lawsuit states.

Well, that’s because Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus – you petulant pinheads.

My apologies, good readers. I didn’t mean to lose my cool – but I’m dealing with some rather unpleasant folks.

Thousands of people have rushed to the school district’s defense – urging them to fight the Wisconsin bullies.Robyn Chiddister launched a Facebook page to muster support for the longtime holiday tradition.“I can’t believe that one individual can take away something so precious to so many,” she told me. “I’m so proud of our school system for standing up to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.”

Sadly, that wasn’t the case in Portland, Oregon – where public school choirs have been banned from performing at a Catholic shrine called The Grotto.

The school district, fearing an FFRF lawsuit, decided it was best to end a longtime tradition of singing at the Grotto’s Christmas Festival of Lights.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has waged a relentless campaign of fear and intimidation against schools across America. And these godless bullies will not stop until they've eradicated Christianity from the public marketplace.

Heaven help us if they do.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/09/lawsuit-baby-jesus-doesnt-belong-in-christmas-play.html

Lol salty over having baby Jesus removed from public school

[Quetzal-X]

Does xmas have pagan roots to begin with? Someone should troll those inbreds and say itd be ok for sweet baby jesus to come on back but he needs to be black so it is at least correct to the word of the bible. How many christian heart attacks and suicides might that be good for?

[Blake]

Bye baby Jesus


Problems began after the nativity was moved to the center of the park last year after having previously been placed at another location inside the park. It was then that an unnamed local saw it and reported it to the atheist group, according to the outlet.“They were offended that we had put it out on city property,” Mayor George Deiss*said.*”When something is put up that many years it becomes a tradition to the city.”

Tradition aside, Freedom From Religion Foundation attorney Patrick ****** said that the nativity has been inappropriately placed on private property and that its removal is essential.

"There are a number of traditions that should be stopped and those are ones that violate the constitution,”*he said. “So no matter how long they’ve been perpetuating this illegal display, now is the time to stop it. Now that they are aware of it.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/11/minn-city-council-votes-unanimously-to-remove-revered-nativity-following-atheists-demands/

[Blake]

Lol E l l i o t

[DMC]

Oddly Jesus never attended public school, and wouldn't have if he were born today, being a messianic Jew.

[Blake]

Who's doing this vandalism...


In early December, FFRF's Winter Solstice banner was stolen from the Franklin County, Ind., courthouse lawn. A new, identical Winter Solstice banner was erected there on Dec. 19.

In the inaugural year of the Resurrection Pledge Drive, 95 freethinkers answered the call, pledging a total of $889 for each FFRF display that was stolen or vandalized. For the vast majority of our displays, this new level of protection worked!

Unfortunately, three displays were harmed after we kicked off the pledge drive. First, FFRF erected a Winter Solstice banner on the front lawn of the Belle Plaine, Minn., police station on Dec. 18, next to a privately sponsored nativity scene. In less than 24 hours, our banner was stolen.

Second, on Christmas Eve, the new Franklin County banner was slashed to bits in a clear act of aggression. The second banner included a warning that "dozens of generous freethinkers have pledged money to FFRF in the event that this banner is stolen or destroyed." Though the second banner was shredded, FFRF's efforts have convinced the town of Brookville to move its nativity scene to private property next December and Franklin County is considering closing the forum on its courthouse lawn.

Third, FFRF's local chapter in Maine put up a Winter Solstice banner in a public park in Sanford. The Sanford banner was stolen on Dec. 30, less than one week after it had been put up.

For all three of these banners, FFRF called on those who pledged to send in their contributions to ensure that FFRF could replace these displays for the 2016 holiday season.

- See more at: http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/25496-resurrection-fund-created-for-ffrf-banners#.dpuf

[Blake]

"The*Freedom From Religion Foundation is renewing*its struggle against the parsonage exclusion.

What Is The Parsonage Exclusion?

The so called*parsonage allowance Code Section 107(2) is probably one of the most constitutionally*dubious parts of the Internal Revenue Code*. *It allows “ministers of the gospel” to exclude from taxable income “rental allowances” paid as compensation to the extent used to provide a home. *Although it is generally a fairly modest benefit to rank and file clergy, the mega ministers of mega churches and televangelists and the like exclude hundreds of thousands of dollars from their income. *Unlike an analogous, if not similar, benefit for the military, there is no dollar limit on the 107(2) exclusion......."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2016/04/08/freedom-from-religion-foundation-attacking-clergy-housing-tax-benefit-again/#33f2060c50da

[Blake]

fucking ridiculous. Churches and pastors get away with so much tax exempt shit

[Blake]

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with the Antelope Valley Freethinkers, are suing a California school district for censoring information about the groups' scholarship opportunities.

The lawsuit was filed today*in California federal court. FFRF, the Antelope Valley Freethinkers, and AVF President David Dionne are plaintiffs. The defendants are the Antelope Valley Union High School District and members of the district board of trustees.

The Antelope Valley Union High School District distributes lists of scholarship opportunities to district students, but for the past two years the district has refused to publish scholarship opportunities offered by FFRF and the Antelope Valley Freethinkers. The Freethinkers' scholarship asked college-bound seniors to write essays on the topic, "Being a young freethinker in Antelope Valley," with a total award money of $1,750. FFRF's rejected essay competition for college-bound high school seniors (with more than $7,500 in cash prizes) offered students a chance to write on the topic of*"Young, bold and nonbelieving: Challenges of being a nonbeliever of color" or "Why I'm Good Without God: Challenges of being a young nonbeliever."

The district said it was rejecting the scholarships because the essay announcements would upset parents, claiming that they that they appeared to "promote anti-religious expression" and had "aggressive" and "argumentative undertones towards religion."*Offers to modify the wording were rejected.

In 2014, FFRF sent the district two letters objecting to the district's censorship. In her response at the end of the year, the district's general counsel, Bridget L. Cook, stated that "since the district is a limited public forum, we reserve the right to determine what information we allow to be disseminated in our schools." Repeated FFRF follow-ups were to no avail.

The Antelope Valley Union High School District is being inconsistent in its policy. The district's scholarship lists included scholarships that solicit religious expression or contain religious elements. In just one example, The Quartz Hill High School Scholarship Bulletin for December-January 2015-2016 lists the "Playing with Purpose Award," which requires the applicant to write "at least one paragraph . . . describing how and when you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and what your present relationship with Him means to you."

The school district's censorship of Antelope Valley Freethinkers and FFRF is government suppression of free speech in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, FFRF asserts. The district censored FFRF and the Antelope Valley Freethinkers' speech because their message is nonreligious, critical of religion and controversial.*

This unequal treatment amounts to viewpoint discrimination because a public school that publishes scholarship opportunities for students offered by religious groups many not refuse to publish scholarships offered by two atheist organizations, FFRF contends. FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States with 23,700 members, including more than 3,000 in California. FFRF seeks a permanent injunction enjoining the defendants from engaging in continued viewpoint discrimination in publishing scholarship opportunities.

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/26311-nontheists-sue-california-school-district-over-censorship

So they're accepting scholarships for discussing how Jesus helped kids get by, but not for what being a non theist in today's world means.

Yeah, seems like an easy lawsuit

[Blake]

BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota community caught up in the debate over religious symbols in public places will eliminate a free speech zone at its veterans' memorial park.

Privately owned displays in the free speech zone, including the silhouette of a soldier praying over a grave marked with a cross, must be removed within ten days.

The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation threatened to sue the city of Belle Plaine over the silhouette. The cross was removed once the issue was raised, but more than 100 residents rallied to put it back.

The Star Tribune (http://strib.mn/2uI5U0x*) says the Satanic Temple of Salem, Massachusetts petitioned the city to install a monument to honor nonreligious service members. But it was never erected.



The Satanic Temple...lol

[spurraider21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIqcEPYO7nE

[Blake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIqcEPYO7nE

Rohrabacher is a very ardent supporter of the legalization of marijuana.

I bet his 3am thoughts on life on Mars are outstanding

[Pavlov]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIqcEPYO7nEMother Russia's best friend in Congress. Met with TSA favorite Rinat Akhmetshin before Prevezon case settled to talk about TSA's new Browder conspiracy.