High School Girl Threatened With Violence By Christian Classmates After Suing School To Remove...

[one_voice]

A Prayer Mural...

....*snip*

When U.S. District Court Judge Ronald R. Lagueux issued his decision to rule in favor of Ahlquist, he went out of his way to praise her for her brave stand for constitutional values.

“The Court refrains from second-guessing the expressed motives of the Committee members, but nonetheless must point out that tradition is a murky and dangerous bog. While all agree that some traditions should be honored, others must be put to rest as our national values and notions of tolerance and diversity evolve. At any rate, no amount of history and tradition can cure a constitutional infraction. The Court concludes that Cranston’s purposes in installing and, more recently, voting to retain the Prayer Mural are not clearly secular. Plaintiff is clearly an articulate and courageous young woman, who took a brave stand, particularly in light of the hostile response she has received from her community.”

But the ruling of the court hasn’t stopped relentless threats of violence and ridicule from her classmates, who have taken to using social media to vent their hate and rage. Here is a but a small sample of the kinds of things these “Christians” are saying courtesy of JesusFetusFajitaFishsticks:

“May that little, evil athiest teenage girl and that judge BURN IN HELL!”

“yeah, well i want the immediate removal of all atheists from the school, how about that?”

“Jessica Ahlquist may have won her case, but she’s going straight to hell. #Godovereverything”

“I hope there’s lots of banners in hell when your rotting in there you atheist fuck #TeamJesus”

“If this banner comes down, hell i hope the school burns down with it!”

“U little brainless idiot, hope u will be punished, you have not win sh..t! Stupid little brainless skunk!”

“Fuck Jessica alquist I’ll drop anchor on her face”

“definetly laying it down on this athiest tommorow anyone else?”

*snip*

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/17/high-school-girl-threatened-with-violence-by-christian-classmates-after-suing-school-to-remove-a-prayer-mural/

[msongs]

1. christian kids are the worst bullies in high school, even worse than the jocks nt

[Joe Shlabotnik]

23. K&R. n/t

[Mariana]

2. Why the jawdropping smiley in your post?

You can't really be surprised. This is nothing new or unusual. Not by a long shot.

[annabanana]

3. Cranston High School West in Rhode Island !?

This is a New England school?

I'm sure the whole community is very proud of these hateful children.

[Pab Sungenis]

4. Have you noticed that the more hateful the tweet

the worse the spelling and grammar?

Maybe fewer religious banners and more hours in the classroom might have a benefit.

[HuckleB]

6. +1

[LadyHawkAZ]

12. +2

[marasinghe]

13. i don't believe sociopathy can be eradicated by education.

experience points to the contrary.
and these reptiles are sociopaths; don't think otherwise, for a moment.
the degree of pathology might vary; but not the base condition.

[Pab Sungenis]

14. But at least if that school put half the energy of proselytization into teaching

their sociopathic rantings would be spelled correctly and grammatically correct.

[marasinghe]

50. :) you are right. but that would diminish one of their pathological cravings -

which is to annoy all & sundry in every way they can. including - the misspelling of words & the misconstruing of grammar, to irritate those of us who believe in a modicum of civilized behavior.

[eShirl]

5. They're getting more and more like the Taliban all the time, aren't they?

[Odin2005]

7. How "Christian" of them. Fuckers.

[dimbear]

8. I object to the punctuation. "Christians." If it were Klu Kluxers or Republicans doing this,

would it be correct to put quotes around those terms?

[Pab Sungenis]

11. The people doing this

are not behaving in a Christian manner. And as a Christian I object to having them lumped in with me.

[riderinthestorm]

15. If they say they are Christians, and the have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord, then they are.

No True Scotsman and all that....

[Kurmudgeon]

24. I can see you didn't understand Matthew 7:21-23. Look it up. Read it a few times.

Then you'll maybe understand in future that it takes more than just saying you're a Christian.

[Arugula Latte]

30. So by your definition all Christians come out smelling like roses

and the rest are not Christians.

How conveeeeeenient.

[Warren DeMontague]

44. How quickly we have identified the REAL VICTIMS in this story!

Not to mention the true villains, ie the fucking intolerant atheist minority.

It's important, however, that the true christians who are pissed off at the fucking intolerant atheist minority not be conflated with the phony christians who are pissed off at the fucking intolerant atheist minority.

[cleanhippie]

51. IOW, "thats not how I interpret it, so you are wrong."

Thats 100% bullshit and you know it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. They may have accepted Jesus Christ.....

....that doesn't mean he has accepted them.

[riderinthestorm]

31. As for our world, if they have accepted Jesus as their lord, they are Christians. Your kin. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

34. There are also plenty of tea baggers who claim men like Jefferson and Madison are their heroes.....

....yet don't know a fig of what they wrote about.

I'm an agnostic, but I know that these people don't follow any of the teachings of Jesus. Would you agree that what they say and what they do don't match?

[mr blur]

35. and up pops the old "No True Scotsman..."

took longer than expected.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

37. Ron Paul cites Ghandi as one of his heroes

Guess that means Ghandi must have been a hateful, selfish bigot somewhere in his teachings.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. It's very simple: A CHRISTIAN is anyone who says I'M A CHRISTIAN.

It doesn't have any impact on what were or weren't the teachings of "Jesus" if "Jesus" actually existed.

Ann Coulter is a Deadhead. Does that mean Jerry Garcia was personally responsible for every dumb-fuck thing that lady has ever said? No. Does that mean that I, as another Deadhead, like being lumped in with Ann Coulter in any way, shape, or form? No. Does Ann Coulter's attitude even remotely exemplify some of the shit *I* got out of listening to the Grateful Dead? No.

But she's STILL a Deadhead. because she likes the Dead and furthermore she identifies herself that way. Same with "Christians". Although these a-holes are not indicative of ALL "Christians", merely saying every bigot, shitwit and asshole who self-identifies as a "Christian" (and in case you haven't noticed, there's quite a few of them in this country) isn't really a "Christian" doesn't make it so.


Martin Luther King was a Christian. These people are Christians.

Deal with it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

47. That wasn't my point....I never said they weren't Christians

My point was about Jesus embracing them.....if he could theoretically do such a thing in a religious/higher power/afterlife context that they believe in. I see nothing in his teachings that tells me they are working their way into his good graces, as much as they chant his name.

By the way, being a fan of a band's music, and embracing a religious ideaology is a fairly shaky comparison. Sean Hanitty plays Bruce Hornsby's "That's Just The Way It Is" as his theme song. Does that make any sense?

[Warren DeMontague]

49. I don't believe in any of it, starting with a historical, objective existence of

"Jesus".

However, that said, I do grok the irony of self-proclaimed Christians threatening to crucify people.

[Warren DeMontague]

46. yeah! Imagine that! You know what it's like?

It's like when a well-meaning conservative like Rick Santorum says that legal gay marriage will lead to people marrying their toasters, all of a sudden folks start yabbering about "slippery slope arguments".. it's funny!

I guess it might have something to do with the fact that it actually IS a slippery slope argument... naaaah, ya think?

Sort of how the inevitable protests regarding "not REAL Christians" lend themselves to "No True Scotsman" fallacy comparisons.

Because they are.

[limpyhobbler]

9. Ms Ahlquist is a courageous young lady and the people making these threats should be investigated

by the police for criminal threatening.

[obamanut2012]

22. They are

The school and authorities are investigating.

[get the red out]

10. I don't think the prayer manual worked very well

By the look of these comments from the Christian students, they weren't becoming enlightened in any way.

[aaaaaa5a]

16. Its not surprising...

Christians are by far the most evil and violent single demographic group in the history of this country.

[cpwm17]

21. I'm all for attacking religion

But that is way over the top. You are condemning over half of all Americans, and a very diverse group of Americans.

Since Christians make up such a large percentage of Americans, it is natural that a significant percentage of bad behavior will come from this group. Some of it will even be motivated by their religion.

'Christian' is just a label that includes a very diverse group of people that know and believe a few facts about their religion. Really it doesn't mean much.

Since their religion puts few demands on the faithful, and claims to reward them with eternal life while claiming to punish the non believers with infinite punishment, quite a few scum bags will find their religion attractive. But that seems to be the case for all religions, even if the other religions make different claims.

[riderinthestorm]

17. So waiting for those who are always mystified when atheists say they face persecution

discrimination or bigotry in their lives....

This young girl is very brave.

[fascisthunter]

18. poor persecuted christians... Jesus would be proud

[rurallib]

19. I will bet $10,000 Romneys that their parents are 100% behind them

[lonestarnot]

20. meh. What a bunch of bullshit.

Nutfuckery idjits.

[davsand]

25. Reminds me a lot of what happened to Vashti McCollum and her family.

McCollum v. Board of Education went all the way to the US Supreme court back in 1947. That family suffered a great deal of abuse because of it. There was an excellent documentary made about it titled The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today. Watch it if you can. Seriously.


http://www.pbs.org/programs/lord-is-not-on-trial-here-today/


It takes enormous courage to stand up sometimes. My heart goes out to Jessica Ahlquist and her family.



Laura

[Ecumenist]

27. Yeah, that's what Jesus would approve of...

Maybe, if more Christians would start actually LIVING Christianity than talking it, people would respect it more, even if they didn't believe. SMDH

[Aida F]

28. DU Rec nt

[Matariki]

29. It's so amusing to see someone called "TeamJesus" say 'you atheist fuck' with so much hate.

I'm sure that's what "Jesus" would do, lol.

[yodermon]

32. "you atheist fuck #TeamJesus" <-- the most hypocritical juxtaposition of Words I have ever seen.

my head just exploded on so many levels.

[DiverDave]

33. +1

eom

[redqueen]

36. +1

[RainDog]

45. "nail her to a cross" sorta did it for me

I mean...

[hifiguy]

38. Those "good Xtian kids" are

runny shitstains in the underwear of humanity. How utterly disgusting and revolting.

Jessica Ahlquist is a brave and principled young woman and deserves nothing but respect.

[Quantess]

39. Oh, the irony.

I suppose Christianity is also a "religion of peace"? Good grief, as if we needed any more religions of peace. Those damned religions of peace give us so much violence.

[Quantess]

40. Or maybe christians corner the market on "love" while muslims lay claim to "peace".

Feel the love.

[Posteritatis]

41. Gotta love watching idiots utter threats in public forums. (nt)

[Initech]

42. George Carlin was right: religion is the leading cause of death.

[theaocp]

48. "Hey, Mr. Funny Man..."