Nonsense in the News–Again

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is at it again.

They are nothing but schoolyard bullies. They pick on small school districts, districts that have neither the time nor resources to defend their position.

I have challenged the Freedom from Religion Foundation on this site to come have a debate with me. They won’t do it. Why? Probably because they cannot win an argument with an informed and experienced Bible believing Christian debater, author, and Bible scholar. But they are most certainly encouraged to visit here and raise a fuss.

Their attorney is Patrick Elliott. I’ve debated attorneys before–and won. So I invite Attorney Patrick Elliott to participate here in an open no-holds-barred discussion by submitting his comments defending his wrongful action against the Muldrow, Oklahoma school district in the comments section below.

The article states in part:

From an Internet Fox news article titled “Students Fight Back to Save Ten Commandments”:

The controversy surrounds Ten Commandment plaques are that are posted in a number of classrooms at Muldrow High School. It’s unclear when the plaques were installed.

Ron Flanagan, the superintendent of the local school district, told Fox News they had received a complaint about the Ten Commandments from the Freedom From Religion Foundation – an organization that has a long history of targeting displays of the Christian faith in public schools.

The complaint was allegedly filed by an “anonymous” member of the community.

“If the facts are as presented to us, and the Ten Commandments are on display throughout Muldrow Public Schools, the displays must be removed immediately,” wrote FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott, in a letter to the school district.

The FFRF said the displays are a “flagrant violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. “Any student will view a Ten Commandments display in school as being endorsed by the school,” Elliott wrote. “Muldrow Public Schools promotion of the Judeo-Christian Bible and religion over non-religion impermissibly turns any non-Christian or non-believing student, parent or staff member into an outsider.”

My further comments:

The students plan to wear T-shirts with the Ten Commandments emblazoned to school each day. One student from the school
remarked in a comment posted below the article that the Ten Commandment Plaques in the classrooms at the school are very small and unobtrusive and surely need not bother anyone.

As others commented, you can choose to read them or not.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation has it all wrong. The First Amendment does not provide any right for anyone to be free from religion. That was NOT the intention of the Founding Fathers. If the FFRF thinks otherwise, they have not done their homework in reading and learning American history. I have. I taught American history and early American literature for much of my nearly 40-year career as a public school teacher at the high school level.

Posting the Ten Commandments anywhere is NOT an Establishment of Religion, as the Freedom from Religion Foundation ignorantly claims. The Supreme Court building itself has the Ten Commandments engraved upon its walls. Clearly the people who founded this country did not see that as being a violation of the Constitution or Bill of Rights. That the Supreme Court may have ruled that posting the Ten Commandments is an “establishment of religion” does not make it so. Sometimes those Nine Men in black robes can be very mistaken, and sometimes quite ignorant indeed. The meaning of “an Establishment of Religion” is that the Federal government may not support a national Established Church, such as was and is done in England and some other European countries. The Founding Fathers did not want public money used to support a particular official national Christian denomination, such as the Anglican Church.

And just which “religion” is being “established” by posting the Ten Commandments? Or, more specifically, just which denomination is being established? The Baptist? Methodist? Anglican? Lutheran? The answer is, “none of the above.”

The First Amendment has been wildly misinterpreted by the humanists, atheists, and agnostics who do not appreciate the moral law being made known, since they favor a society that flaunts the moral law.

But they work very hard to force their immoral worldview upon our children in public school, to the point where Sodomy is given protected legal status.

It is the Humanists who have made sure that Darwinian Evolution is taught in public schools. Disagree? Read their journal, and study the Humanist Manifesto. Humanism and atheism are themselves religions, and I recall that even the Supreme Court in a decision affirmed this to be so. Once in a while the Supreme Court gets something right, though not too often. Those who believe in evolution believe that everything there is originally came from nothing. Evolution (when the term is not confused with mere “change,” a handy logical ploy and fallacy called equivocation) is not science, but philosophy. And most atheists and scientists and science teachers do not know the difference. Neither do the courts at any level or the justices of the Supreme Court.

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