Public School Proselytizing Sparks Miss. Lawsuit

[SecularMotion]

The Rankin County, Miss., School District is facing a federal lawsuit because it allegedly sanctioned coercive proselytizing during three mandatory assemblies at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood.

The American Humanist Association (AHA) charged that Principal Charles Frazier and other school officials required students to attend events that featured a fundamentalist Christian video, proselytizing and prayer.

According to the legal complaint in M.B. v. Rankin County School District, Frazier sent an email to all faculty on April 9 ordering them to send all members of the senior class to a school hall for the religious event.

Students were not told the subject of the assembly. When some realized it was a proselytizing event, they tried to leave but were prevented from doing so by a school truancy officer, as well as teachers and parents who were present for the preaching.

https://www.au.org/church-state/june-2013-church-state/au-bulletin/public-school-proselytizing-sparks-miss-lawsuit

[skepticscott]

1. So what's the big deal?

Atheists do this sort of thing at public schools all the time too, right? We all know that atheists are just as obnoxious as Christians about promoting their worldview, right?

[Phillip McCleod]

2. yep. sarcasm comprehended.. must be time for xkcd again?

it never gets old, eh?

[Leontius]

5. "atheists are just as obnoxious as Christians"

some more so than others.

[cbayer]

3. Glad to see the AHA taking this on. This is exactly the kinds of cases they need to pursue, imo.

Thanks for the info!

[dimbear]

4. With apologies for repeatedly beating this drum, notice who has acted. Not liberal Christians, but

humanists. It's as if it's they who care most about the constitution.

[Leontius]

6. It's the old boy calling wolf scenario, when the real wolf shows up people have just

stopped listening.