conservative hoopla de jur
The big story yesterday on Drudge and Rush was court filing made in California where a teacher was banned from handing out copies of the Declaration of the Independence for references to God made in it. The story is here and The Smoking Gun has it's say here.
The more I think about the story, the more I have a feeling that there's something fishy behind it. I read through the point by point offered in the court papers found on TSG and it just feels like there's more being not said than there is being said...as if this teacher has focused a little too much on Christianity in the past, and hovers over it a bit too much when teaching history. After all, the principal of the school hasn't taken this measure against any other teachers, even when those other teachers' materials reference God. I don't know, it sounds like there's more going on under the surface than we even know.
But that probably isn't what's important anyway...
I was pissed when I read the original story. If, in fact, the Declaration of Independence was banned from a school for it's reference to God that would be going way too far. Monkeys at the Teh Soapbox can read my initial impression here. But now I'm starting to see it as a deception on the part of the right to divide America even more than it already is...pointing out how crazy far the left has gone with the PC thing. I think there's a campaign of misinformation here that's choosing to make this look like some poor teacher being unduly harrassed by The Secular Man™ (TSM) for his religious beliefs and in so doing TSM is taking sacred historical documents down with him. It's designed to have become news the day before Thanksgiving so that people can talk about it over Turkey Dinner and while standing outside in line at WalMart at 5am the day after Thanksgiving -- the hate digging in deep before the story can be debunked on Monday.
And I'm not the only one. Seeing the Forest has a much better and more thourough examination of the ideas and tactics seemingly at play here.
The more I think about the story, the more I have a feeling that there's something fishy behind it. I read through the point by point offered in the court papers found on TSG and it just feels like there's more being not said than there is being said...as if this teacher has focused a little too much on Christianity in the past, and hovers over it a bit too much when teaching history. After all, the principal of the school hasn't taken this measure against any other teachers, even when those other teachers' materials reference God. I don't know, it sounds like there's more going on under the surface than we even know.
But that probably isn't what's important anyway...
I was pissed when I read the original story. If, in fact, the Declaration of Independence was banned from a school for it's reference to God that would be going way too far. Monkeys at the Teh Soapbox can read my initial impression here. But now I'm starting to see it as a deception on the part of the right to divide America even more than it already is...pointing out how crazy far the left has gone with the PC thing. I think there's a campaign of misinformation here that's choosing to make this look like some poor teacher being unduly harrassed by The Secular Man™ (TSM) for his religious beliefs and in so doing TSM is taking sacred historical documents down with him. It's designed to have become news the day before Thanksgiving so that people can talk about it over Turkey Dinner and while standing outside in line at WalMart at 5am the day after Thanksgiving -- the hate digging in deep before the story can be debunked on Monday.
And I'm not the only one. Seeing the Forest has a much better and more thourough examination of the ideas and tactics seemingly at play here.
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