Mother furious high school coach had her son baptized

[Fat Man]

Here is an article from a web site at:

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/08/ ... t-revival/

This is most definitely a violation of the separation of church and state!

Mother furious high school coach had her son baptized

By Stephen C. Webster
Published: September 8, 2009



The mother of a Kentucky high school football player is furious over the Christian baptism of her son during what he said was supposed to be a school outing to eat a steak dinner and see a â??motivational speaker.â? Instead, Breckenridge County High School football coach Scott Mooney took 20 of his players on a trip to a Baptist revival, where eight or nine of the students underwent the Christian ritual of baptism, according to published reports.

Michelle Ammons, mother of 16-year-old Robert Coffee, said sheâ??s upset that nobody ever asked her consent to take her son to the August 26 religious ceremony. She added that sheâ??s even more upset with the school district superintendent Janet Meeks, who was at the revival and did not object to the coach including his students. â??Nobody should push their faith on anybody else,â? Ammons told the Louisville Courier-Journal.

The Associated Press noted that Ammons has consulted a lawyer regarding her options in the matter.

Meeks said she did not see anything wrong with the trip, as it was voluntary and fuel for the bus had been paid for by another coach, AP added. â??None of the players were rewarded for going and none were punished for not going,â? Meeks told the Courier-Journal.

â??The bottom line here is that public schools have no business meddling in the private religious lives of students,â? says advocacy group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. â??Decisions about where, how, if and when to worship belong at home with the parents, who are free to consult with the religious leaders of their choice.â?

Yeah! Like, what next???

Soon they're be telling kids, the nerds and geeks, that being nonathletic is a sin, a form of sloth, and if you're not athletic enough, then you're going to Hell or something.

What about being a stupid moron? Isn't that also a sin?

How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers
delight themselves in scoffing and fools hate knowledge? - Proverbs 1:22

[Sergey]

As an Atheist I am VERY offended. This is why I hate religion, not Deism, but definitely religion.

[Fat Man]

As an Atheist I am VERY offended. This is why I hate religion, not Deism, but definitely religion.

Although I'm not an atheist, I agree with you wholeheartedly!!!

I believe that my religion is a personal thing between me and my God, and I would NEVER force my own religious beliefs on anybody else. I might talk about my religion, but I don't expect anybody else to follow it. I don't expect other people to believe as I do.

I have know atheists who have embraced much higher moral principles that would put a lot of religious people to shame.

Most atheists are actually good and decent people.

[Fat Man]

One more think I would like to add. . . . .



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That says it all.