SweetSue92
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Her diatribe is classic leftist propaganda. This is another example of why education needs to be removed from federal government and union control.
Todd Starnes: T-shirts saying 'stand for the flag, kneel for the cross' draw protest at school
I would stand for the flag and kneel for the Cross any day of the week, but this not a difficult call. The school board member flipped a lid of course, but she is correct.
If the girls got together as students on the cheer team and sold the shirts as students, they probably would have been okay. The problem was they used the school mascot on the shirt, thus making it seem like the school district endorses the message. Christians might say they like that idea, but then think of a mostly Muslim district in Dearborn MI or Minneapolis, MN making shirts with the public school mascot saying they honor Mohammad or some-such. Nope. And I don't really care if the district is mostly Muslim--the district is not supposed to take a stand.
FWIW I don't think it's the racial stuff about the flag that they have to get into. Saying they "kneel for the Cross" with the school mascot was enough to have the shirts canceled. The rest is I di
But it wasn't a muslim district, and even if it was, so what? Muslims aren't going to respect the flag either. Live and let live. Muslims aren't going to do anything similar because it's against their religion.Her diatribe is classic leftist propaganda. This is another example of why education needs to be removed from federal government and union control.
Todd Starnes: T-shirts saying 'stand for the flag, kneel for the cross' draw protest at school
I would stand for the flag and kneel for the Cross any day of the week, but this not a difficult call. The school board member flipped a lid of course, but she is correct.
If the girls got together as students on the cheer team and sold the shirts as students, they probably would have been okay. The problem was they used the school mascot on the shirt, thus making it seem like the school district endorses the message. Christians might say they like that idea, but then think of a mostly Muslim district in Dearborn MI or Minneapolis, MN making shirts with the public school mascot saying they honor Mohammad or some-such. Nope. And I don't really care if the district is mostly Muslim--the district is not supposed to take a stand.
FWIW I don't think it's the racial stuff about the flag that they have to get into. Saying they "kneel for the Cross" with the school mascot was enough to have the shirts canceled. The rest is extraneous, so it's an easy call.
There isn't anything wrong with asking public school students to respect the flag. It's asking them to kneel for the Cross, or implying that "we all do as a district", that is wrong. And I say this as a conservative Christian public school teacher.
Often districts, teachers, and admin get this wrong. Usually, for instance, when a teacher gives an open-ended assignment, and a child chooses to write about God, the teacher tells him 'You can't write about God in school". Absolutely wrong, and that happens a LOT. I always defend the students' rights to express their religion in school. Their right does not end at the school house door--and by the way, my right to believe in my faith does not end either.
But what I cannot do, as an employee of the gov't, is impose my faith on my students. Not even my atheist/agnostic/Buddhist/Sikh/Muslim faith....or my Christian faith either. That means the shirts with the Cross on them and the mascot are a no-go. Goose and gander. You know the rest.