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On 5/31/11 5:38 PM, wf3h wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:56:14 -0400, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

In ,
says...


On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school
superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion of a prayer
at the graduation ceremony. He pointed out that government-sponsored
prayer in the public schools was unconstitutional and legally forbidden
? and that he would be contacting the ACLU if it went ahead. The school
agreed to substitute it with a moment of silent reflection, which was
subsequently scuppered by a Christian student.

Right, it wasn't at all political or hateful.. He just happened to do
this on the "day of graduation".. ****ing hater, that's all the kid is.


never heard of the constitution, eh?


Then Fowler?s name, and his role in this incident, was leaked. As a
direct result:

1) Fowler has been hounded, pilloried, and ostracized by his community.

Like any kid who acts like an asshole just to be an asshole...

tell it to jefferson.


2) One of Fowler?s teachers has publicly demeaned him.

My kids have suffered that too, not all teachers are good.


3) Fowler has been physically threatened. Students have threatened to
?jump him? at graduation practice, and he has received multiple threats
of bodily harm, and even death threats.

Like every other kid in High School who acts like an asshole...

typical right winger who thinks the constittuion should be limited to
the 2nd amendment



4) Fowler?s parents cut off his financial support, kicked him out of the
house, and threw his belongings onto the front porch.

For being an asshole...


Oh, and the school went ahead and had the graduation prayer anyway.

As well they should.. Just because one teacher got one weak student to
be an asshole, doesn't mean the system needs to change..


According to this report, Fowler has become the center of what he terms
a ?****storm?: he has been harassed, vilified, targeted with insults and
name-calling and hateful remarks. He?s been told t he?s the devil. He?s
been told, ?Go cry to your mommy? oh, wait. You can?t?. (A reference to
him being disowned by his parents.) He?s been told that he?s only doing
this to get attention. A student?s public prayer at a pre-graduation
?Class Night? event was turned into an opportunity for the school and
community to gang up on Fowler and publicly close ranks against him ?
teachers as well as students. (Here?s video). And people seen defending
him have been targeted as well.

It's funny, the attacks this kid is getting is not unlike the attacks my
daughters and friends have gotten from haters for being Christian for
over a decade...

i'll bet. there are almost no atheists in america so this is bull****.


It's about time the fleabaggers got a taste of their
own medicine. Kids like the one above is nothing but a fleabagger punk
trying to make a name for himself because he is intolerant.. Good that
the kids in town are handling it the way kids will...

yeah imagine people trying to stand on their rights!! what balls.

the right loves the IDEA of freedom

they hate the PRACTICE Of freedom...this idiot's post is proof


Scotty Ingerfool, Our Man of the Constant Victim.

Harry Krause, the pedophile man of no conviction...

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In article ,
says...

On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:56:14 -0400, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...


On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school
superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion of a prayer
at the graduation ceremony. He pointed out that government-sponsored
prayer in the public schools was unconstitutional and legally forbidden
? and that he would be contacting the ACLU if it went ahead. The school
agreed to substitute it with a moment of silent reflection, which was
subsequently scuppered by a Christian student.

Right, it wasn't at all political or hateful.. He just happened to do
this on the "day of graduation".. ****ing hater, that's all the kid is.


never heard of the constitution, eh?


Then Fowler?s name, and his role in this incident, was leaked. As a
direct result:

1) Fowler has been hounded, pilloried, and ostracized by his community.

Like any kid who acts like an asshole just to be an asshole...

tell it to jefferson.


2) One of Fowler?s teachers has publicly demeaned him.

My kids have suffered that too, not all teachers are good.


3) Fowler has been physically threatened. Students have threatened to
?jump him? at graduation practice, and he has received multiple threats
of bodily harm, and even death threats.

Like every other kid in High School who acts like an asshole...

typical right winger who thinks the constittuion should be limited to
the 2nd amendment



4) Fowler?s parents cut off his financial support, kicked him out of the
house, and threw his belongings onto the front porch.

For being an asshole...


Oh, and the school went ahead and had the graduation prayer anyway.

As well they should.. Just because one teacher got one weak student to
be an asshole, doesn't mean the system needs to change..


According to this report, Fowler has become the center of what he terms
a ?****storm?: he has been harassed, vilified, targeted with insults and
name-calling and hateful remarks. He?s been told t he?s the devil. He?s
been told, ?Go cry to your mommy? oh, wait. You can?t?. (A reference to
him being disowned by his parents.) He?s been told that he?s only doing
this to get attention. A student?s public prayer at a pre-graduation
?Class Night? event was turned into an opportunity for the school and
community to gang up on Fowler and publicly close ranks against him ?
teachers as well as students. (Here?s video). And people seen defending
him have been targeted as well.

It's funny, the attacks this kid is getting is not unlike the attacks my
daughters and friends have gotten from haters for being Christian for
over a decade...

i'll bet. there are almost no atheists in america so this is bull****.


It's about time the fleabaggers got a taste of their
own medicine. Kids like the one above is nothing but a fleabagger punk
trying to make a name for himself because he is intolerant.. Good that
the kids in town are handling it the way kids will...

yeah imagine people trying to stand on their rights!! what balls.

the right loves the IDEA of freedom

they hate the PRACTICE Of freedom...this idiot's post is proof

Looked at your money lately?

I suppose you refuse to carry it from now on based upon principle.

On 5/31/11 7:06 PM, BAR wrote:
In ,
says...

On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:56:14 -0400, I_am_Tosk
wrote:

In ,
says...


On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school
superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion of a prayer
at the graduation ceremony. He pointed out that government-sponsored
prayer in the public schools was unconstitutional and legally forbidden
? and that he would be contacting the ACLU if it went ahead. The school
agreed to substitute it with a moment of silent reflection, which was
subsequently scuppered by a Christian student.

Right, it wasn't at all political or hateful.. He just happened to do
this on the "day of graduation".. ****ing hater, that's all the kid is.


never heard of the constitution, eh?


Then Fowler?s name, and his role in this incident, was leaked. As a
direct result:

1) Fowler has been hounded, pilloried, and ostracized by his community.

Like any kid who acts like an asshole just to be an asshole...

tell it to jefferson.


2) One of Fowler?s teachers has publicly demeaned him.

My kids have suffered that too, not all teachers are good.


3) Fowler has been physically threatened. Students have threatened to
?jump him? at graduation practice, and he has received multiple threats
of bodily harm, and even death threats.

Like every other kid in High School who acts like an asshole...

typical right winger who thinks the constittuion should be limited to
the 2nd amendment



4) Fowler?s parents cut off his financial support, kicked him out of the
house, and threw his belongings onto the front porch.

For being an asshole...


Oh, and the school went ahead and had the graduation prayer anyway.

As well they should.. Just because one teacher got one weak student to
be an asshole, doesn't mean the system needs to change..


According to this report, Fowler has become the center of what he terms
a ?****storm?: he has been harassed, vilified, targeted with insults and
name-calling and hateful remarks. He?s been told t he?s the devil. He?s
been told, ?Go cry to your mommy? oh, wait. You can?t?. (A reference to
him being disowned by his parents.) He?s been told that he?s only doing
this to get attention. A student?s public prayer at a pre-graduation
?Class Night? event was turned into an opportunity for the school and
community to gang up on Fowler and publicly close ranks against him ?
teachers as well as students. (Here?s video). And people seen defending
him have been targeted as well.

It's funny, the attacks this kid is getting is not unlike the attacks my
daughters and friends have gotten from haters for being Christian for
over a decade...

i'll bet. there are almost no atheists in america so this is bull****.


It's about time the fleabaggers got a taste of their
own medicine. Kids like the one above is nothing but a fleabagger punk
trying to make a name for himself because he is intolerant.. Good that
the kids in town are handling it the way kids will...

yeah imagine people trying to stand on their rights!! what balls.

the right loves the IDEA of freedom

they hate the PRACTICE Of freedom...this idiot's post is proof

Looked at your money lately?

I suppose you refuse to carry it from now on based upon principle.


I figured you held up your money when you prayed.


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On Tue, 31 May 2011 19:06:54 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article ,
says...


they hate the PRACTICE Of freedom...this idiot's post is proof

Looked at your money lately?

I suppose you refuse to carry it from now on based upon principle.

cant prevent all you religious fanatics from spewing your hatred

but we can try

On 31/05/2011 7:43 AM, Harryk wrote:
In , payer3389
@mypacks.net says...

US high school student threatened with death for opposing school prayer

NORTH LOUISIANA has been described as ?the buckle on the Bible Belt? ?
and not without good reason, as high school student Damon Fowler at
Bastrop High School has discovered to his cost.

On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school
superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion of a prayer
at the graduation ceremony. He pointed out that government-sponsored
prayer in the public schools was unconstitutional and legally forbidden
? and that he would be contacting the ACLU if it went ahead. The school
agreed to substitute it with a moment of silent reflection, which was
subsequently scuppered by a Christian student.

Then Fowler?s name, and his role in this incident, was leaked. As a
direct result:

1) Fowler has been hounded, pilloried, and ostracized by his community.

2) One of Fowler?s teachers has publicly demeaned him.

3) Fowler has been physically threatened. Students have threatened to
?jump him? at graduation practice, and he has received multiple threats
of bodily harm, and even death threats.

4) Fowler?s parents cut off his financial support, kicked him out of the
house, and threw his belongings onto the front porch.

Oh, and the school went ahead and had the graduation prayer anyway.

According to this report, Fowler has become the center of what he terms
a ?****storm?: he has been harassed, vilified, targeted with insults and
name-calling and hateful remarks. He?s been told t he?s the devil. He?s
been told, ?Go cry to your mommy? oh, wait. You can?t?. (A reference to
him being disowned by his parents.) He?s been told that he?s only doing
this to get attention. A student?s public prayer at a pre-graduation
?Class Night? event was turned into an opportunity for the school and
community to gang up on Fowler and publicly close ranks against him ?
teachers as well as students. (Here?s video). And people seen defending
him have been targeted as well.

Here are a few comments on the Bastrop Enterprise news story about the
controversy:

I personally see him as a coward.

I hope they [Christians] put enough pressure on this kid to convert
him and save his soul from the fire of hell.

If he don?t want prayer at graduation he can stay at home and not
come to graduation.

I hope that the little athiest (sic) is offended.

What he is really doing is trying to shove his views down people?s
throats.

Satan continues to prowl and is deceiving many in this world.

A piece published yesterday by PoliticusUSA points out that Christian
fundamentalists have persecuted atheists and agnostics for the past 30
years with accusations that non-believers are aggressive and are
?throwing atheism in our faces,? when the opposite is true.

There is a dangerous trend of Christian fundamentalists taking over
the government to change the nature of America. It may be in part
because in America, like the rest of the world, Christianity is on the
decline and the number of Americans claiming to be Atheists, Agnostic,
or non-religious has increased by 15 percent leading to an alarming
trend of fundamentalists making a last-ditch effort to force
Christianity on the country.

The young man who protested prayers at school events is not an
isolated case, and around the country young people are standing up to
school officials and fundamentalists who ?force their religion down the
throats? of non-believers regardless of age or station in life. The
Constitution does not forbid religious fundamentalists from praying
whenever and wherever they please, but it does maintain the separation
of the government and religion and it means no public school prayer.

The article concluded:

Evangelical Christian leaders recently conceded in an interview
that there were Christians around the country who were prepared for
armed conflict to enforce Christianity if necessary, and they claimed
the military and Congress had been infiltrated by fundamentalists; it is
a foreboding that should frighten every person in America. If any
American thinks they are safe from fundamentalist Christians whose
intent is replacing the Constitution with the Ten Commandments and its
Stone Age punishment (stoning), they are deluded and do not comprehend
the level of violence extremists are capable of inflicting in god?s name.

If in America in 2011, one student faces public threats without a
theocratic government or the Ten Commandments as the law of the land,
imagine the violent Crusade and Inquisition a group of well-armed, angry
fundamentalists will unleash if given authority and power.

Last month, an interviewer asked four evangelical church leaders if
their intent of using violence to force Christianity on Americans was
tantamount to the Taliban in Afghanistan. They replied that, ?yes, they
were the same as the Taliban except they were better armed, better
organized, and had the full support of conservatives in positions of power?.

Still think fundamentalist Christians are harmless? You should be
mortified.

http://freethinker.co.uk/2011/05/30/...school-prayer/

P.S. I would post this over at my new fantastic group that I made just
for me and Don, but no one is there.

Hey spoofer, that is pretty good!
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On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:24:10 -0400, Harryk
wrote:

US high school student threatened with death for opposing school prayer

he's a hero to stand up to this type of persecution from those who
believe 'god is love'.

goddamn cowards