Nation's Largest Atheist Group Files Complaint Against Christian School for Policy on LGBT Acts

[trotsky]

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-group-files-complaint-against-christian-school-banning-sinful-acts-164468/

...St. John's Lutheran School of Baraboo, which receives federal funding for certain student aid programs, informed parents earlier this year that they reserve the right to punish homosexuality and transgender activity.

Patrick Elliot of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, the largest atheist organization in the United States, filed a complaint earlier this month against the school before the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

"St. John's Lutheran School has implemented policies that discriminate against students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity," argued Elliot. "As these students are unable to attend the school, they are unable to participate in free and reduced price lunch programs."

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When asked by CP about the claims some made that the policy outlined in the February letter was bigoted, St. John's Lutheran School replied that their policy "has nothing to do with fear, hatred, or bigotry... It is rather an expression of our conviction that, as Christians, we look to God and His Word to define what is right and wrong, moral and immoral."

Nope, nothing to do with fear, hatred, or bigotry... just their religion making them be afraid, hateful, and bigoted. That's all. Yay religious freedom!

[RKP5637]

1. Religion, IMO, has generally been ugly in life. Certainly not all of the

time, but it's hard to ignore the ugliness of religion as a dominate aspect over eons.

[trotsky]

3. "I'm not judging you - GOD is!"

Can't argue with that "logic" unfortunately. Not with the privileged position religion is given.

[RKP5637]

5. When just a few years old and in Sunday School, I started asking questions,

the TPB talked to me and told me I could never come back if I kept asking questions. Fact was, the other kids were listening and thinking this is F'ed up. I stopped, my father was a prominent democratic politician and it looked good in his campaigns to be a church goer, although he could have cared less about religion.

[Angry Dragon]

7. No questions .... because they do not really have any answers

God's will
Because god works in mysterious ways

[RKP5637]

8. That was the line I always got, "god works in mysterious ways. FFS, anyone with an

ounce of brains should have known it was total bullshit. Some of us kids did and always said to each other, WTF.

[skepticscott]

2. Look to god

for your fucking funding, then!

[RKP5637]

4. K&R!!! n/t

[Angry Dragon]

6. I have thought of a way to eliminate the religion problem in this country

You can not brainwash any person with religion until they are 18