June 13, 2007
Speaking in Tongues 101
Giving new meaning to Madonna’s song, “Express Yourself”, excitable Christian boys and girls will soon be voguing in their respective public schools to the rapturous stylings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Note to the new crusaders – The Jesus and Mary Chain is not a Christian rock band, though you are encouraged to attend one of their reunion tour concerts.
In other words, government-sponsored school prayer is back. Read the Religious Viewpoints Anti-Discrimination Act, which is also known as the Schoolchildren’s Religious Liberties Act, and you just know that our schools are about to be overrun by extremists. Not the students mind you, but every religious nut doing their best to trip up any teacher or administrator, especially a union member (because you know the religious right loves working people), who tries to inject some sanity into the school setting. No big surprise that the act is highly slanted towards Christianity with a Caucasian, paternal bias.
However, this act could be a blessing to females who want to witness for the Lord since the Bible commands them to keep their mouths shut in church, and we all know the infallibility of the Bible.
On second thought, creating “limited public forums” – i.e. proselytizing to unsuspecting youth – is the least religious activity a student should perform. The way conservatives have devastated public schools the past several decades, all students should have massive ceremonies to conjure up changes of biblical proportions. They could start by washing away the evilness of the likes of Charlie Howard and Kelly Shackelford. Just as people realized that school vouchers were anti-social justice because it took money from the poor to give to the rich, they will discover that this act is another hateful, divisive attempt to put “those” people in their place.
Just as disgusting as this law is the way the religious right was able to get this filth into our schools. What lead to this action is their accusations that public schools discriminate against Christians. This is an outright bold-face lie because students can already express religious viewpoints in homework and classroom discussions as long as the idea relates to the topic, and they can also initiate prayer.
The Christian mafia has made a cottage industry of making exaggerated claims on rare and badly-reported incidents of alleged discrimination so as to make an indictment that the entire country is against Christians. Such a plan would be humorous and idiotic if not for the fact that their goal is to create Christian madrassas.
Possibly the biggest harm is that these underdeveloped religious expressions will not convey the correct and discerning knowledge of Christian beliefs which could cause irreparable harm to impressionable youth who are in real need of guidance. The confusion could cause a student to act out in disastrous ways.
While a growing number of religions in many parts of this country are evolving by linking to each other to create ecumenism and interfaith pluralism so as to reach enlightened outcomes and peaceful existence, why does much of Texas continue to regress to fundamentalism isolation? When in God’s name is it going to stop?
Posted by Captain Kroc at June 13, 2007 05:00 PM
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