Parents across this country need to be pro-active in ferreting out, exposing, and challenging those public school educators who are increasingly bold in their willingness to use taxpayer-subsidized curricula to promote anti-Christian bigotry and discrimination. Don't assume this is a problem only in colleges and universities. Dawkins' God Delusion video has been shown even in high schools. The film and play versions of the wildly inaccurate, anti-Christian Inherit the Wind are routinely used in public schools. The blasphemous play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is taught in high schools. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, which is taught both in high schools and middle schools, depicts conservative Christians as, in the words of Kirkus Reviews, "humorless dupes or hypocrites." And the pro-gay, anti-Christian play The Laramie Project, based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, is routinely taught and performed at high schools around the country. One wonders how often the 2

Great clip, better essay. Thanks!

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Jesse Kilgore, the son of a military chaplain, was a combat veteran. What do you suppose challenged his faith more: a book he checked out of the library, or the horrors of war?

Eighteen American veterans commit suicide every day. I think it is much more reasonable, and intellectually honest, to blame his tragic suicide on untreated PTSD than on a book.

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Parents across this country need to be pro-active in ferreting out, exposing, and challenging those public school educators who are increasingly bold in their willingness to use taxpayer-subsidized curricula to promote Christian bigotry and discrimination.

Mom, and several other parents for their kids, did that for me when I was in the sixth grade. In 1963 people respected the idea of the separation of church and state, understood what it meant and how important it is, appreciated that they themselves lived by the grace of the idea, and embraced it.

He read a book and that lead him to suicide? I guess his convictions were not as strong as he thought.

That is certainly not a Hate Crime.

In fact that professor did a good thing. One must challenge one convictions constantly less one grow lax in them. Only by putting them to the fire can we really know their validity.

Also the fact that he was a combat veteran has to be taken into account.