hook `em while they're young

[rone]

What the fucking fuck.

STAUNTON, Virginia (AP) -- When Heather and Logan Ward's son entered public kindergarten this fall, they were shocked to discover that pupils were taken from class to a nearby church for weekly Bible lessons.

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Jack Hinton, president of the local private group that offers the lessons, attributes the opposition to a small minority, many of them newcomers to the valley. Without religious classes, he said, "kids get into trouble and have no moral structure on which to combat drugs, sex, pornography and all that."

I'm really not feeling witty right now.  I'd rather just throw Bibles at this fuckhead until he achieves enlightenment.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

That's what the article says, but it doesn't explain what's "voluntary" about it. What do the kids who opt out do? Sit by themselves twiddling their thumbs for half an hour?

The article included this quote from a Sunday school teacher:

"I asked them whether Jesus was a Christian and they said 'yes.' When I said, 'Jesus was a Jew,' one girl said, 'But Jesus was a good person,"' Ridell said.

Voluntary or not, it does not sound to me like the Bible lessons are helping matters.

[merde.livejournal.com]

That's what the article says, but it doesn't explain what's "voluntary" about it. What do the kids who opt out do? Sit by themselves twiddling their thumbs for half an hour?

it's a peer pressure trick, just like the pledge of allegiance. the students may not be "required" to participate, but all the other kids are going, and they're only little kids, and they want desperately to fit in. how many kindergarteners are sufficiently assertive and socially aware to stand up and say no?

evil. pure, unadulterated evil.