Student Who Blew the Whistle on Muldrow High School’s Ten Commandments Plaques

[Quixote1818]

This story is now making the rounds at places like Huffington Post etc. This blog reveals the name of the boy who complained. It's nicely done.


This is the Student Who Blew the Whistle on Muldrow High School’s Ten Commandments Plaques

May 11, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 382 Comments



Earlier today, I posted about the Ten Commandments plaques that hang in every classroom in Muldrow High School (Oklahoma). As the story went, after an anonymous atheist student contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the FFRF contacted the school and the plaques will now almost certainly be taken down after the school board discusses the incident at Monday’s meeting.

But the plaques won’t be coming down without a fight.


“It’s Christianity under attack within our own country,” said Josh Moore, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muldrow, Okla.

…

Parent Denise Armer told KHOG she supports the students’ efforts to save the Ten Commandment plaques.

“If other kids don’t want to read the Ten Commandments, then they don’t have to,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that they have to make everyone else do what they want.”

I guess no one taught these Christians the way the law works. Give it a couple of days, though, because they’re about to find out.

More: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/05/11/this-is-the-student-who-blew-the-whistle-on-muldrow-high-schools-ten-commandments-plaques/

[grilled onions]

1. I can't remember what were on our high school walls

But if kids in high school still do not know the Ten Commandments by heart then I would say "why bother".They must have gone through years of Sunday school with that list being pounded in their heads like an anvil chorus. If they want to cheat,act like a bully,be a class clown they could have those plaques on the walls like wall paper and it won't teach them a thing. A kid has to want to follow them. You can steer them in the right direction but once they "drive" what direction they take is up to them and no amount of turning public schools into Sunday schools is going to change their high school attitudes.

[peace13]

3. Even a sane non Christian knows the basics of the big ten.

No Kill, no lie, no porking the neighbor or his wife....this is all common decency. Of course the honor god issue is different but for the most part people know what the right thing to do is....the hard part is doing it. The threat of a spook in the sky just keeps those with no moral compass honest!

[sakabatou]

2. "It’s Christianity under attack..."

*facepalm* These kids need some civics lessons.

[trumad]

4. OK---fine...

then let's hang this on their walls.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Too easy. This is better.

I want to see pants actually being pooped. Islam only makes them a little gassy.

[Gman]

5. What a wonderful fundraising opportunity for the RW

No perceived slight passes without raising money off of it.