A Window on the Religious Left

Fox News' Todd Starnes reported on another glittering example of the religious left's intolerance. Of course, the incident had to occur in California, at Helen Hunt-Jackson Elementary School in Temecula. The offender was a first-grade girl completing her homework assignment by explaining to the class one way in which her family celebrated Christmas. The bearer of the sword, in this case, was the child's teacher, who will never rank right up there with the nation's founders or with those who have fought and died for American freedoms on foreign soil. Predictably, the local school board is mouthing patriotic slogans while circling the wagons around this epitome of what a teacher is not.

The principle, too, Mrs. Ami Paradise, is part of the problem; for, according to Starnes' article, in later allowing the little girl to finish reciting her story in her office, said that the teacher had done the right thing, confirming "there was no way [the young girl] could finish that presentation."

Why?

Well because the little girl was about to quote John 3:16, and "there are specific education codes that protect the school."

Protect the school from what, the love of God?

Educators, as the term is normally understood, they are not.

Andy McCarthy on Free Speech and It's Enemies in the State and in the Culture

"Free speech cannot work if the government it is designed to restrain does not respect it. A lawful American government — one that takes seriously its sworn obligation to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution — would not only enforce the First Amendment; it would refrain from engaging in unconstitutional schemes in the first place."

McCarthy always writes a good article. This is one of his best.

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