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Teaching fairy tales and assorted religious mumbo-jumbo since 1996 with public funds!

Teaching religion in public schools as a serious “subject” is just wrong. Religious studies are acceptable, but this is not what this is.  Would you want to subject your child to graded learning on how the tooth fairy or easter bunny makes their rounds?  Some people do, and want to continue to do so on the public schools educational funds.  Christianity teaches hate, it teaches ostracism it teaches xenophobia.  My point is affirmed with this breaking news story about how the dear christians are being put upon because:

“However, if the policy developed . (it) means that our Logos teachers and principals would no longer be able to express freely in their classrooms that the homosexual lifestyle is not in accord with their Christian beliefs, and that they would be required to ‘affirm’ homosexual lifestyle as acceptable to traditional Christian family values, then we cannot accept this,” the two-page notice says in bold lettering.

Then my dear deluded friends, you can simply frack the hell off and take your despicable fairy tales with you.  Like some of the religiously-challenged the facts of the matter have little sway when it comes to their magic book, this is from their website:

“Certainly, as followers of Jesus, we believe that every child should be free from bullying, whether it is because of his or her physical appearance or their sexual orientation, or for any other reason, and that all persons and families should be treated with respect and dignity. To that extent we support the School Trustees’ concern about bullying. (Yet, if the Trustees would insist that their already-existing policies on bullying were strictly enforced by the Superintendent and school principals, there would be no need for an additional policy at all).”

But wait, let’s see why this program is being enacted…

“There is considerable evidence that sexual-minority youth are at greater risk for harassment, persecution, bullying, suicide attempts and feeling unsafe, Colburn said.  Research has also shown generic anti-bullying policies do nothing on their own to protect those kids, he said.

“It’s only when stand-alone policies specifically addressing (sexual minority) populations are in place that the school environment changes dramatically.”

Well I’m completely surprised that the LOGOS program would ignore research and fact when it comes to facing the realization that yes, your hate filled fairy tale hurts children and does not deserve the blind reverence you seemingly give it.  I encourage the concerned christians to make more persecution (of the majority) noises about this grievous policy of having to affirm that the homosexual lifestyles are okay.  It further highlights the bigotry, ignorance and irrelevance of christian religion in the 21st century and makes the strong case that the taint of religion has no place within the public school system.