Concerns over Ebola have shut down schools in two states.
Two public schools in Ohio are closed because staff members were on the same flight as Amber Vinson, the second nurse who contracted Ebola and flew from Ohio to Texas with a low grade fever.
An e-mail was sent to parents of children at Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School.
“This circumstance came to light late in the day and we have been working since then to get as much information as possible from public health authorities,” the district’s email read.
“Although we believe what the science community and public health officials are telling us about the low risk of possible transmission of the virus through indirect contact, we are nonetheless taking the unusual step of closing the dual school building for Thursday so that we can have the schools cleaned and disinfected.”
The Belton Independent School District in Texas closed all three schools because of two students who were on the flight.
“Canceling classes at the three campuses will allow us to thoroughly clean and disinfect the schools and buses that served them this week. It will also allow health officials additional time to re-assess the health risk to passengers on the plane,” said Belton Superintendent Susan Kincannon in a statement. “I’m frustrated that we didn’t learn until late tonight that the CDC was re-evaluating the health risk. The health and safety of our students is my first priority.”
A Georgia school board has given into a group of anti-Christianists who demanded Bible verses be removed from a statue donated to the school.
The virulent anti-Christian group American Humanist Association sent a threatening letter to the school over a monument that was built in August and touched by the school’s football team on the way to the field. The monument has two Bible verses on it.
The school board voted unanimously to give into the anti-Christian group and remove the Bible references because the school’s attorney said it was likely they would lose a court challenge.
“Kirby told board members, in part, that the monument presented some legal problems in connection with the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman. The case produced the so-called ‘Lemon test,'” reported Jim Thompson of the Athens Banner-Herald.
“Kirby went on to tell the board that the issues raised by the Madison County High School monument were too similar to other court cases on the establishment clause to believe that the county’s situation might set a new legal precedent …”
The AHA celebrated the removal of Christianity from public.
A New York high school that was caught discriminating against a Christian club last year and tried it again this year has reversed course.
Ward Melville High School in Long Island tried for the second straight year to deny the Christian group Students United in Faith permission to meet on campus. After pressure from Christian rights groups, they reversed course.
“Please be advised the district has decided to alter its position on this issue,” wrote John Sheahan, an attorney for the Three Village Central School District. “In light of this change, the district will grant SUIF recognition as a student group for the 2014-15 school year and reverses any contrary decision.”
The school denied accusations they violated the Equal Access Act.
Hiram Sasser of the Liberty Institute praised the teens who stood up to their school in a statement to Fox News.
“John Raney and Jeremy Johnson may just be high school students, but they did more for liberty than all of Washington, D.C.,” he said.
A publicly funded California university is offering a free online class to promote abortion.
The University of California – San Francisco announced the six week class called “Aboriton: Quality Care and Public Health Implications.”
“I think that if we can inspire even a small portion of the people who take the course to take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion, then we have been totally successful,” Dr. Jody Steinauer, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California – San Francisco, told The Daily Beast who broke the story.
The school claims over 3,000 people have signed up for the class.
The outline of the class shows the pro-abortion propaganda taxpayers are funding.
“Each week’s lectures will incorporate the stories of women who seek abortion in order to better portray abortion significance and rationale,” its outline states. “Other topics will include a brief history of abortion, the clinical aspects of medication and procedural abortions in and after the first trimester, an overview of patient-centered abortion-care, the basics of abortion counseling, the professional obligations of health care practitioners to ensure that women have access to safe abortion care, and the maze of restrictions that make safe abortion care inaccessible to many women.”
Officials with a high school in Long Island, New York that was caught discriminating against Christian students last year has been caught doing it again.
Ward Melville High School told John Raney, 17, that he could not have a Christian club as part of the clubs at the school last year. Raney had founded Students United In Faith, a service-oriented Christian group. When the Liberty Institute stepped in, the school Superintendent Cheryl Pedisich reversed the decision and apologized.
Now that the spotlight was off, the school is trying to discriminate against Christian students again.
The school’s Assistant Principal, ironically named Christian Losee, is trying to keep the Christians from having a group this year because of alleged lack of interest and “financial limitations.” However, the school approved four new clubs.
The Liberty Institute was surprised the school would try again to discriminate against Christian students and is taking action.
“This is not a complicated issue,” Sasser wrote. “Simply put, public schools cannot discriminate against religious clubs and must treat them equally, and provide them equal access to school facilities, as non-religious clubs.”
A virulent anti-Christian group is demanding that Bible classes in multiple North Carolina.
Cleveland, Woodleaf and Mount Ulla Elementary Schools in the Rowan-Salisbury School System have 45 minute classes that parents may opt out their children if they do not wish them to receive instruction.
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a threatening letter after another “anonymous” individual complained that the school was teaching the Bible.
“It is irrelevant that parents may excuse students from the elementary Bible classes,” the anti-Christian group wrote. “Suggesting that children who do not wish to be subjected to religious activity at their school should be segregated from their classmates is reprehensible. … It makes no difference if some parents would like the Rowan-Salisbury School system to teach the Bible as fact to its students.”
The school district said they are looking into the matter but refused further comment.
Two virulent anti-Christian groups’ latest action to try and remove Christians from society is to tell a high school in Georgia they must remove a sculpture because it contains a Bible reference.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanist Association are threatening the Madison County School District in Danielsville, Georgia. The school has a monument outside the field house of the high school that contains Romans 8:31 and Philippians 4:13.
The monument was paid for by private funds.
“The district violates the Constitution when it allows its schools to display religious symbols messages. Schools may not advance, prefer or promote religion,” the letter from anti-Christian FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel asserted. “The Bible verses on this monument violate this basic constitutional prohibition by creating the appearance that the school, and by extension the district, prefer religion to non-religion and Christianity to all other religions.”
The school’s superintendent says they are looking into options including removing the Bible verses or removing the monument.
A South Carolina state senator is speaking out about the way atheistic evolution is being used as state-sanctioned gospel in schools.
Mike Fair, who represents Senate District 6 in South Carolina, has sponsored bills that have called for students in public schools to learn arguments both for and against evolution including discussions of creationism.
“The ‘truth’ must conform to Darwinism, or it is not allowed,” Fair says. “I don’t suppose it matters what your eyes see or your mind tells you.”
Fair claims that the government is illegally and unconstitutionally promoting the atheistic religion.
“Making inferences to the best factual information is not allowed if it points to a religion other than atheism,” he wrote. “Consideration that the fine tuning of our galaxy is a miracle (or made that way) is a discussion that is not allowed.”
“I believe the principles established by the Founders are being removed from the public square by a series of narrow decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court,” he continued. “I am bothered that the Supreme Court has changed the Constitution by a series of 5-4 votes clearly outside the methods duly established to properly change our Constitution.”
An Arizona football coach is riding the bench for two weeks because he prayed with his team.
Tom Brittain, head varsity coach at Tempe Preparatory Academy, has asked a member of his team to lead a prayer. The coach then joined the students after they began praying.
That’s when Headmaster Dr. David Baum swooped in and suspended the coach because he dared to pray with his team.
He also gleefully stood by his decision.
“I think I preserved the religious freedom of our students, who have to have the liberty to be able to practice or not practice their religion on our campus, without interference by adults,” Baum said.
Parents were outraged at the anti-Christian action taken by Dr. Baum. They showed up at the homecoming game last week with T-shirts showing support for the coach saying “Let Tom Coach.” Students also had a poster with the “we believe in Coach Brittain” message and had personal notes of support for the coach.
