Southern Baptist resolution: "Get the kids out!" of "toxic" public schools

[Bluebear]

Press release
To: National Desk, Features, Education, Religion

Contact: Grady Arnold, Executive Director for GetTheKidsOut.org, 409-283-2004, 409-200-1849 cell, [e-mail]; or David Scarbrough, 731-256-0228, [e-mail]

FRESNO, Ca., May 31 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Grady Arnold, Executive Director for GetTheKidsOut.org, announced today the submission of a Resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention that calls for a radical change in the SBC.

Rev. Grady Arnold, pastor of a Southern Baptist Church in Texas, along with David Scarbrough, minister of Education at an SBC church in Tennessee, have submitted a resolution on Christian Education that is similar to last year's resolution calling for the immediate pull out of all children from public schools.

Rev. Arnold points out that this years' resolution is radical, not because it calls for the immediate pull out of children, but because it calls for the churches "to lovingly warn all of their members concerning the toxic spiritual nature of the government school system."

Arnold states that "Southern Baptists have been playing the 'ostrich with it's head in the sand' routine long enough. The time is way over due that we acknowledge the devastating effects public school is having on the faith of our children."

Arnold further stated "According to many in the SBC leadership, sending kids to government schools to get a thoroughly secular education is equivalent to being salt and light in the schools. But according to their own data, just the opposite is happening. According to the SBC Council on Family Life Report of 2002, 88% of those Southern Baptist children after graduating from government high school are leaving the church, never to return."

The Arnold-Scarbrough Resolution: (a) applauds Christians working in the government schools as missionaries, (b) calls on churches to warn their members of the devastating effects of sending their children to a totally secular institution for their education, (c) calls on churches to become aggressive and pro-active in starting Christian schools and in supporting homeschooling.

When asked why the resolution was so important, Rev. Scarbrough responded, "…this is an issue of utmost importance. Like in the days after Joshua (Judges 2) we are on the verge of losing an entire generation. We are trying to help as many Southern Baptists as we can see their responsibility to educate their children according to the scripture. And help them see what's wrong with the government school system."


http://www.earnedmedia.org/gtko0531.htm

[Maat]

1. I love that picture you put on the bottom!

It looks like she considers Bleep and Darth as gods.

[Bluebear]

2. Oh she does, she does!

This whole thing reeks of a cult!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. PLEASE DO TAKE YOUR F*CKING KIDS OUT

Maybe now we can teach the rest of the kids some science and your kids can be (sinlessly) flipping burgers after they graduate from the Holy Pinhead Bible College.

[Bluebear]

5. "HPBC"

:rofl:

[Maat]

10. I agree with Bluebear - Fertilizeonarbusto cracked me up ..

made me laugh REALLY hard.

[Catma]

15. I need to remember that

:rofl: :rofl:

[warrens]

4. Hmmm, The Subhumans saw this one coming 25 years ago...

"Don't be surprised when they close down the schools

And take their children away

And don't be surprised when you turn around

And it's an inquisition day

...

It's gonna be painful when you realize

You're not immune from the fascist disease.

The Subhumans - Incorrect Thoughts

[wakeme2008]

6. Good take them out NOW

just do not expect any government handouts to pay for their private education.

[Tux]

7. LOL

Is it just me or are they making a bad public image for themselves? I mean, Dan Brown's novel (fiction) inspired 20 books to prove it's fiction (no shit). Now this.

88% of kids graduate and never return to church. It's their right. If they want to leave, return, never leave, or join another church, let them. If they truly love their kids, they won't care and still love them as people, not as potential income.

[roguevalley]

8. I hope 88% leave that idiot church. GO KIDS! THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT!

[Bluebear]

9. Depends what public you are referring to

33% of the population will think their public image is sterling. That seems to be the fundy/nut percentage nowadays...when you see any poll that is the die-hard number that supports Shrub no matter what.

[iconoclastic cat]

11. Take your kids---please! The schools are too overcrowded anyway.

And by the way, SBCers, if you think that 88% are running away from your bullshit cult because of public education, just wait until you see what they do when they are cooped up at home with you for 18 years! I have a strange feeling that the percentage will climb, as will runaway and abuse rates. Do you think you'll be able to circumvent natural teenage rebellion? Go for it, dumbasses.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. It takes years of constant teaching a child how to do what Gawd

clearly wants them to do, before they are ready to send out selling those strange little books, that they come around here with all the time! I mean, just anyone can't take up the serpent without some serious schooling! The main part of the children's education is probably teaching them how to beg for cash on TV, like Jerry, Pat, Tammy, Jim, Jimmy, Earnest, Benny, Billy, Billy's Kids, Tammy's kids and the rest of the TV Preacher's Organized Crime Syndicate!

You can bet that the people behind this removal of those kids from public schools, smell some money, or some power over other people, somewhere in this deal! Bush is telling them that he will provide federal "FAITH BASED" funds, to get the "faithful's" holy votes!

Home schooling = Exploitation! The Faithful keep the older kids at home to baby-sit the younger kids! Tax free no fee child babysitters and house maids, are even cheaper than people from Mexico to exploit.

The TV preachers focus more on their own pocketbooks, than they "focus on the family!" And now, for Heaven's Snakes, they wanna' FOCUS too!

[Bluebear]

13. "For heaven's snakes"

:rofl:

Focus on the snake handlers! They are trouble!

[Hubert Flottz]

18. They try and FOCUS every time we turn our backs on them!

If Bush is a "Jesus Man", then I'm a freakin' Chinese Astronaut!

[Lars39]

14. Isn't this the second time they've submitted this to the SBC?

[Bluebear]

16. Yes but the press release points out it goes further

This year's includes the order that churches "lovingly warn" members about the 'toxic' schools.

[Lars39]

19. "lovingly warn" translates to "put the pressure on"

Pressuring the submissive wife to quit her job, pressuring
the "master of the house" to pressure the submissive wife.
Just in time for a long hot summer. :eyesroll:

[me b zola]

17. I hope the trend extends beyond the South

Although I fear for their children I resent like hell what they are doing to public schools and the harm that they are doing to all children by dumbing down our public schools and creating controversy where there should be none. I can't imagine the backlash that there will be when there children grow up and escape their lunacy.

[NMMNG]

20. Please! Take them out of the public schools!

Then they won't be there to harass the free thinking, non-fundie, gay/lesbian/bi/transgender kids--and any other groups those wingnuts decide aren't up to their standards :crazy: .

[bdot]

21. When I was young...

I was put in a private school starting in 3rd grade due to how crappy teachers were in elementary school. I was always put to the corner because I was hyper. I was not allowed recess or social interaction with others because I had too much energy.
So I was put in a Baptist private school. While I was not stuck in a corner and hid away, I also didn't get as good of an education so 4 years later I was put back in public school. By then they allowed people to get in teh AP classes.

These days it's not as bad because teachers are not allowed to keep kids out of the Gifted school when the kids ace the tests. I was kept out because teachers said I was hyper and couldn't learn even though I was aceing the tests.