Qur'an Taught In Schools, Bible Banned From Recess

by JASmius



Here we go again:

The parents of a middle school student are upset because they say a teacher told their 12-year-old son he couldn’t read his favorite book in school, his Bible. The parents say their son’s fundamental rights were violated.

Loyal Grandstaff’s parents say they’re taking a “grand stance” to stand up for their son’s freedom of religion after they say a teacher told their son he couldn’t read his Bible in school.

Good for them.  Because they're absolutely right.

Loyal says he loves reading his Bible and decided to bring it to school before the Christmas break so he could read it during his free time. But the seventh grader said his teacher told him it wasn’t allowed.

“I like to read my Bible because it’s a good book,” Loyal said.
He said he wasn’t reading out loud and said he wasn’t sharing the Bible with his classmates.

“I was just reading, just reading because I had free time. A time to do what I wanted to, so I just broke it out and read,” he explained.

I like this lad and his parents more with each paragraph, don't you?

Do you think that if little Ali Loyal Abdullah Grandstaffi had brought his prayer rug to school and unrolled it towards Mecca during recess and bowed down on it, this teacher would have confiscated it and sent him to "time out"?  Me either.

“There’s kids walking around disrespecting their teachers, kids walking around cussing and everything else and they’re practically getting into no trouble at all,” Justin said.

Good point.  As Paul warned Timothy:

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. [emphasis added]

Also known as "demanding the ends yet denying the means" - which brings the sincerity of the former into serious question.

Pity (perhaps) this poor principal:

Lance Tobin, the principal at Bueker Middle School in Marshall, says Bibles are not banned from school, but says he needs to look into the situation to get the details before he elaborates further.

I don't know whether Principal Tobin is a Christophobe or not.  It's pretty clear that Loyal Grandstaff's teacher is, which means that whatever Tobin's religious and free speech views are, that teacher has created with his or her educrat-indocrinated knee-jerk Christ-hatred yet another of these PR headaches that blow up into national stories that the schools inevitably have to walk back, at least until the publicity storm blows over.

I suspect that little Loyal will be able to read his Bible during free period again.

If not, he can always smuggle it into class inside a rolled-up prayer rug.