Bastrop High School's depraved administration

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This is blood-boiling idiocy, hypocrisy, and brutality. Honestly, how can anyone with children disown them over sticking up for their rights?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZynOGhRDkM[/youtube]

The narrow-mindness, lynch mob mentality, and cruel administration of Bastrop are all infuriating - these people shouldn't be running schools, and it reflects poorly on educational employment standards in that state. Mitzi Quinn is a shameful excuse for a human being and so are Fowler's parents, HOW DARE YOU. Valuing your little Christo-Fascist ideology over your own son, truly an example of how unhealthy many of these Far-Right Christian Fundie father-led families are (I guess there being a religious exemption in anti-child abuse legislation in some Southern States makes it easy).

This gets to another problem. Christianity started out as a religion of the persecuted, Jesus instructing people to pray in private and "render unto Ceasar" (secular authorities). Why is it that modern day Fundies throw hissy fits whenever their religious IDOLS aren't plastered over public buildings (and why do they violate a commandment about graven images and then insist the commandments be plastered over Court Houses everywhere?)? Surely, you're the majority, you can freely practice your religion and even pray in school individually (teachers can't lead or endorse prayers, but students are allowed to pray in their head before class). Surely, isn't that enough for your supposedly pacifistic, meek, and mild religion?

I know, most of Jesus's words contradict other things he said. Jesus (or, the Gospel writers who fictionalized what, in all probability, was a bipolar carpenter in the Middle East) was the master of MIXED MESSAGES. Still, you'd think Fundies would display a little less entitlement when it comes to breaking the law.

For some depth on Damon Fowler:

http://iantimberlake.wordpress.com/2011 ... and-state/

And to learn of the college trust fund some online fundraising created for him, see

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... ler-money/

The kid was being a jerk but didn't do anything illegal or against school rules.

The school should have reigned in the antagonists better. It was a little late for disciplinary action for the graduating seniors but the school still should have squashed their threats. Going ahead with the prayer was cool though, because like I said, the kid was just being a jerk.

If he was 18, his parents were not obligated to let him stay, though I'm not sure if any state/local eviction laws were violated. So unless there was any eviction law violated, his parents didn't do anything wrong even if they were total jerks.

Unless anyone in the community made threats or publicly said anything that was deliberately false to smear him, they also are just being jerks.

I don't think I'd want to know any of those people.

Well, the U.S. South is known to be full of Fundamentalists; this is what they do. It disgusts me, and it's definitely unconstitutional, but I have a feeling they're going to keep on trying because, if anyone tries to stop them, they just feel "persecuted" and inclined to do it more.

Sounds like the parents did the kid a favor by kicking him out. Stupid people working in and attending schools (sadly) doesn't raise these eyebrows, but disowning your kid over something like this gets my attention. 27k for school and getting away from that environment doesn't sound like a bad deal at all.

I don't know the exact content of the e-mail, so I cannot say whether this student was being a jerk or not. I mean, saying that something is unconstitutional is a factual claim and pointing out a factual claim is hardly rude in this context. I mean... most of the people here have done this in contexts where it would be considered plainly wrong. Webster is not presented as doing anything senseless. I don't know if he was "being a patriot" as we are not presented enough to know his real position or motivations or anything else like that. The source used doesn't give us text from the e-mail and clearly has a skew.

The reaction however, is overblown by any metric from the information presented. The source certainly appears to be biased in its presentation, but... there are certain facts that are ridiculous in this presentation. Even further, Webster's opinion alone isn't the issue stopping the school so much as the legal issues involved with the situation. Presents disowning him is a cruel reaction. Threats are a cruel reaction, and... well.... illegal. I mean, I bet many of these angry expressions are ways people blow off steam, but it isn't a sign of being "good Christians" in any sense, so it shows the hypocritical joke this crusade is. I don't take the attempted reading of scripture used here that powerfully though. First of all, the case doesn't need anything like that. Secondly though, if we took that interpretation seriously, we'd have to say Christianity was against community prayers(and no tradition says that), instead the injunction is against false appearance of holiness. These prayers are meant to give thanks as a community on a special day... or should be.(Frankly, the behavior here is just without theological justification. These people are just a**holes who want to pray and.... for unclear reasons at that given their lack of concern for meaning.)

... must be the sister-city of Grand Ledge, Michigan ...

Believe in our god or suffer vast consequences. Sounds like Christianity alright. Sounds like Islam and Judaism too, but considering this is a Christian issue...let's stick with that.

Saying the Lord's Prayer at a football event? That's downright creepy.