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Conference yukon::christian_v7

Title:The CHRISTIAN Notesfile
Notice:Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165
Moderator:ICTHUS::YUILLEON
Created:Tue Feb 16 1993
Last Modified:Fri May 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:962
Total number of notes:42902

732.0. "Religious Equality for Public School Students" by JULIET::MORALES_NA (Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze) Thu May 18 1995 02:13

    This note is for anyone in this file who would like to vent
    their frustrations at seeing Christian teenagers being sent home from
    school for wearing a John 3:16 T-shirt to school, carrying their Bible,
    and praying before eating their lunches whilst their peers wear
    Satanic symbols, carry guns and knives, and use foul language that
    suggests of sexual acts.
    
    Vent, let it out... and then ... :-) pray about it, get active and
    support the religious equality amendment being brought before the
    public of California.
    
    [Anybody else hear about this?]  I only caught the end of an interview
    on 95.7 which had my dander up for the criticism and my excitement for
    the amendment.
    
    Nancy
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732.1have been hearing about it...CUJO::SAMPSONThu May 18 1995 05:539
	Yes, Nancy, I've heard of a Religious Equality Amendment in the
works.  James Dobson (Focus on the Family) published a draft in his
newsletter.  Ralph Reed (Christian Coalition) is said to be marshalling
his forces for this (from an article in Time magazine).

	The proposed amendment to the US Constitution is based on the
growing conviction that "school prayer" is not enough, that what we need
to do is guarantee the right of every student in every school to freely
express his or her faith in God.
732.2BIGQ::SILVADiabloThu May 18 1995 10:1426
| <<< Note 733.0 by JULIET::MORALES_NA "Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze" >>>



| Satanic symbols, carry guns and knives, and use foul language that suggests 
| of sexual acts.

	Nancy, where do they wear satanic symbols in school? I haven't seen or
heard about that out this way.

	As far as carrying guns and knives goes, they would be arrested if they
we caught with them. To use this in the analogy like it's an accepted thing is
really pushing it, don't you think? (ie  can't have bible, but carry guns &
knives)

	And with foul language, if it's done in front of a teacher, the kid is
reprimanded. If a kid wants to pray, just do it quietly. 

	Now with the shirts, would you be upset if a kid came into school with
a, "Satan Rules Me" t-shirt? If you would, then I can't for the life of me see
how you could be upset that someone couldn't wear a John 3:16 t-shirt cuz in
both cases, someone is taking offense. NOW, if you feel it would be ok to allow
the t-shirt, then yeah, I see your point. 


Glen
732.3CSC32::KINSELLAThu May 18 1995 14:5517
    
    Glen, have you seen the shirts teenagers are wearing now adays?  
    Many are of rock bands (and no I'm not against all rock music)
    that are heavily satanic and the shirts have satanic symbols on
    them.  My neice whose in high school would never complain about 
    them, she would just think it was extremely sad.  However, some
    kids in my town are be harassed and told not to wear shirts with
    christian messages.  One girl a couple years ago was even told
    by the school administration not to wear them.  It had a great
    effect because not only did she refuse, but many other kids 
    started wearing christian t-shirts.  Had the school not backed
    down, there would have been a lawsuit eventually.  These kids 
    aren't asking that the other shirts be banned, but they feel that
    if these kids can wear shirts with whatever message about life
    and/or death they want, then so should they be able to.  
    
    Jill