Wisconsin parents object to public graduation at evangelical church

It’s a building. Get over it.

I bet the parishioners would beg to differ.

No public school district is within its rights to force people to go to the superintendent’s church or miss a family member’s commencement. BTW, instead of having to walk under a giant cross to receive their diplomas, imagine a giant symbol of an electric chair, firing squad rifle, gas chamber, hangman’s noose, or lethal injection gurney suspended above them. How can anyone think a symbol of an execution is appropriate at a graduation ceremony? Those who wish to bask in the wonders of sanguine mythology, even taking in pierced, bleeding images of Jesus, are free to do so at churches across America. Have fun, get saved. However, you have no right to force me to join your disgusting nonsense or to miss one of my kid’s commencements.

Hmmm. I wonder how evangelical Christians would react to their graduation ceremony being held in, say, a site for Wiccan covens?

I’d like to see the outcome of this suit. Minnetonka school district is doing the same thing, I hope it can be stopped.

The church says homosexuality is “not an acceptable lifestyle” and is “contrary to God’s will,” attacks atheists as people “who think they are smarter than God” and even condemns TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey for promoting “a spirituality that is at fundamental odds with the historic biblical faith.”

Well, every single line of the above text is truth! If this is the view this Church, then it is a big honour to have graduation at its premises.

I’ll be damned. What were the Brookfield administrators thinking? that no one would notice?

So Alex, you think gays and atheists feel honored to graduate there? Or are they not students and citizens?

the above comment by alex just goes to show you how terrible people really are. have some compassion and understanding. the christian community is constantly talking about the good it does for the general public when the fact of the matter is that they really do nothing but try to control us and tell us how to live out lives. they think they are doing gods will when really they are doing the will of men who are high up in the church. i think we should crucify alex.

Alex Spak – maybe you see the Church pastor and congregation as correct in their beliefs. But that isn’t the point here, is it? A public agency is holding it’s event wrapped inside the blanket of a religious organization – it’s facilities, it’s policies.

That is wrong – just as wrong as if they were made to graduate at my home, and all around my home were signs saying “G-d is Dead.”

We’re supposed to conduct public business with neutrality toward the wide array of religious beliefs and practices in our community, not favor some over others by picking one’s faith setting over others.

It’s a separation issue. First Ammendment gives us the freedom of religion and the freedom FROM religion. I’m sure the school wouldn’t think of trying to hold a public high school graduation at a Satan Worship church. Or a Mosque. The fact that evangelical Christianity is popular and politically powerful does not make it acceptable. I can’t wait to watch my son graduate, but I’d sue too if his ceremony was to be held in a church.

This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools.

Andy Birkey has written more negative adds regarding church and religious people than most. He has an ax to grind obviously.

The “faith based initiatives” in the public schools have gone far beyond this in the Twin Cities.

The new principal at Maxfield Magnet in St Paul this year is actually a minister at St Peter’s African Methodist Church in Minneapolis, one of the largest and most socially conservative black churches in the Twin Cities.

And if you look at who the African American district administrators are in the metro districts, you will see the links through these “faith based partnerships” between the public schools and black churches even more clearly.

Look at the African American organizations and players who inserted themselves in the current Burroughs debacle, and one can discern the pattern.

There are race wars in the schools going on that the Twin Cities media is ignoring: race wars over political turf between the African American community and their socially conservative agenda parading as a progressive DFL agenda, who continues to attack, marginalize and force out the immigrant communities, the LGBT communities, and the secular African American intellectual community.

More than scary. We have seen the results of these “faith based initiatives” in the schools. They are a gravy train for a few greedy folk, and have had no impact whatsoever on raising test scores for students or closing the so-called racial achievement gap.

I say so-called racial achievement gap, because the gap isn’t about race, it’s about class. It is a poverty achievement gap.

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