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Jackson City School District Superintendent Phil Howard finds support at school board meeting where hundreds boo those expressing that the portrait’s presence violates the U.S. Constitution.
Yes, it’s time again for an episode of “Might Makes Right” and “Majority Rules.” The trouble began when the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent Superintendent Phil Howard a letter pointing out that a portrait of Jesus (on display in the public school since 1947, donated by a Christian student group) was an “egregious violation of the the First Amendment.” Read and weep at the defense of the portrait:
Superintendent Phil Howard addressed a crowd of hundreds who attended the school board meeting at Jackson High School Tuesday night, saying the board fully supported his decision to leave the portrait in place…Prior to Howard’s announcement, several people voiced their opinions during the open discussion segment of the meeting. “I am tired, without being blunt, of the political correctness that is going on in this country right now,” Tom Jones, a missionary from Minford, said. “It is tearing up our country.”
Reaction from those in attendance made it clear which side the majority was on, as those in favor of the picture remaining were applauded. Those in favor of it being removed were booed.
I wonder if it’s ever occurred to the residents of Jackson County, Ohio what their feelings might be if the school received a portrait of Buddha, or Moses or the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Oh wait, that would require critical thinking skills.
Now weep some more. (WSAZ):
According to WSAZ, over 11,000 people had joined the “Citizens of Jackson County for Jesus” Facebook group, which was created by Jon Hensler to oppose FFRF’s request.
Hensler wept openly when the TV station asked him why the Facebook page had become so popular.
“You wonder in today’s world what our children and our grandchildren are going to have,” he said, choking up. “And it’s good to see that there’s still people in our community that are willing to stand up and speak out for Christ.”
Hensler insisted that the spirit of Jesus would remain even if the portrait was removed because “Christ lives within us, we know that.”
Video from NBC4i:
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That’s what I was going to suggest. Don’t forget Lord Ganesha. He’s the coolest looking one.
(They wouldn’t object to Old Testament fictional character Moses.)
Superintendent lifts left leg, grabs thigh firmly with right hand and says to his critics: “Oh yeah? Well I got yer Jesus hangin! Gonna’ make me take it down? Yeah, you and what army?
It’s sad to see so many people unable to understand that the separation of church and state is what gave us so many, many, religous groupings. And I’m just talking about all of the warring Christian denominations damning each other as heretics!
And, yes, that would require thinking outside the bubble universe they’ve chosen to live in.
And Kali with the heads of her enemies hanging around her neck! Sisters are doin’ it for themselves!
P.S. They’d really love a portrait of Moses holding up the Ten Commandments.
I’d be more upset if the portrait was of Jesus but it’s not. It’s really Republican Jesus, the right’s fantasy of Jesus with European features.
At least they are using the WASPish Jesus instead of having a bloodied semite hanging around.
Great minds think alike!
Isn’t it amazing that in some pictures Jesus is tall and blond? Religion for the uninformed wingnuts.
Our country is the laughing stock of the civilized world. God & guns!
Well, yeah! After all, the good lord took time out His busy schedule to sit for that – ‘tsa least we can do.
Over a hundred years ago, people of all faiths and none traveled hundreds of mile to hear the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll lecture. We are a very stupid people.
A stupid people. A little people. Greedy, barbarous and cruel.
Was that Peter O’Toole to Omar Sharif?
Photo looks more like a Grateful Dead bandmember than a pre-Christian era Jew who would not know how to relate to modern time Sunday morning tele-evangelicals pushing prosperity.
Makes me wanna push two fingers down my throat.
On 2nd thot, I can puke easily without the fingers, over this matter.
Stupid fucks, ya can’t FIX stoopid.
LeSigh.
Wait, isn’t that one of those hippies they shot at Kent State?
If Jesus had showed up in Ohio, let’s say in 1968, he’d of seen the rivers burnin’ and a naturalist’s portrait of Hades’s gate. He’d of taken in the smoky, stinky oil shining; like a mirror finish, reflecting off the teeth of five million rednecks grinning. But the last thing that Jesus would do, I think, would spend another minute in Ohio, the perpetual land of wholly owned stink.
Yes, indeed!
I personally have a bias toward the flying spaghetti monster.
lol..kinda reminds me of “from my dead cold hands”
A painting, naah. Now if they could come up with a photograph of Jesus, they might have something!
As a non-Christian who subscribes to a minority faith, I’ve learned to live in a Christian dominated culture.
Christians seem to NEED these goofball pictures. I just find that sad. I’m much more concerned about the hatreds they serve. That’s the real threat.
Absolutely! For alleged adherents of “The Prince of Peace”, they are, with a few notable exceptions, a remarkably warlike crowd.
Hang that portrait in the school cafeteria. He always makes me hungry.