|
| Equal Treatment For Teachers Who Are Believers |
|
| |
Here is a quote from Charles Haynes who is a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. He has been following an ACLU suit against Wilson County Schools (Tennessee) and a group called Praying Parents, since it was first filed. Haynes said: "Teachers in public schools certainly have the right to be as religious as they want after hours, but while they're there, they're supposed to be there for all the students and parents."
Public school teachers advocate various attitudes and lifestyles all the time. One teacher may talk about hunting, thus offending vegetarians. Another may talk about his or her casual sex experiences, offending those who believe in sexual purity. Another may use profanity, offending those who don't enjoy vulgar language. Those offensive teachers don't wait until "after hours" to express their beliefs. Why should all those offending teachers get special treatment?
How about equal treatment for religious teachers? |
|
| To add a comment to "Equal Treatment For Teachers Who Are Believers" |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
 |
|
|
Equal treatment is deserved of all, teachers included, that is what God designed humanity for, even after the Tower of Babel, even after the crucifixion of Christ, God wanted us to be equal, for that is how we started out, regardless of occupation, regardless of gender, and regardless of the color of our skin or how we worship Him. It's too bad the "human and worldly" powers that be continually fail to see just that. Whenever I hear songs that say something about friendship, I think about God, and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and say, they're the best friends to have, no matter what. Christians we are, and Christians we'll be. Side by side with Jesus, on into His eternity. Shalom is given strength in Amen and so it shall be.
Rev. Laura A. Neff
The Rainbow Minister
Covenant of Hope Ministries |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
| What's good for the goose is good for the gander...LOL |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Thats so true abd I think its because no one wants to hear what the religous teachers say. Its aweful 2timithy did say that those ears will turn |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Brother Steve, Teachers use to be an honorable profession. Now the public school system has a lot of their by products teaching in the system. My wife works in the school system and it's a shame to think these people are educators. Brother Sanders |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
| amen man and ur so filled with the love of jesus christ amen and amen for u and most of all jesus christ but i love u thee mostiest out of everybody that loves u here on earth and i know jesus christ loves u more than i do but that is because he is perfect that is why but i love u second thee mostiest out of everybody in the whole world |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
| The only name that seems to offend is the Name above ALL names....but we should exspect that. They love the darkness and not the One True Light. |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
While I appreciate Haynes' work on this matter as well as your point, Steve, about equality I would opt for inequality lest my profession and proclamation of faith blend in as just another teacher advocating just another lifestyle. Indeed, the church's hallways already resonate with believers parroting the same clamoring for their lifestyle.
My two-year classroom teacher experience in the public schools was an opportunity I seized much to the chagrin of my colleagues. Every holiday which came up during the school calendar year was an opportunity I seized such as, but not limited to, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Teachers, like any others, can be just as ignorant about what they can say in public schools. I made it clear to my students: 1) I was not asking if they believed the subject content (for example, concerning Jesus) 2) I was not telling them to believe it, 3) We were merely looking at the origins, meanings (such as Christmas) and practices associated with those holidays. This we learned was a matter of history and was as prevalent as to be found in libraries throughtout the world even in cultures where it was not believed or observed.
Our schools lack the moral substance to pass judgments. They cannot make a moral judgment concerning sexual behavior any more than parenting. Since they can not their solution is to even out everything and make all things equal. That may sound good. Many believe and accept it as the best response, but that resonates as hollow as school halls emptied of children or when the hallowness of God is absent. |
|
|
| March 30, 2009 |
|
|
|
You said it all Lara, for us all to some degree, particularly in regard to the last sentence. I mean your last sentence not God's hopefully. Rm 7:24-25
Alex |
|
|
| March 31, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Amen, all Christians should let our light shine. Catherine Booth called it "agressive Christianity." |
|
|
Follow this blog
