Always! Religion is outside of any man-made rules or laws! Who are you to think you can tell Jesus's favorite people what to do???? Get thee behind me Satan!!!
Sounds as though North Carolina wants to play with Tennessee and Oklahoma and Texas. You know, the BIG BOYS of State / Church separation denial. One has to wonder what the Hasty School District administration was thinking when they invited The Heath Brothers to what amounts to a DEMAND Performance for the kids of the school.
As always, I'm pleased to see that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is all over this debacle, and I suspect that the final analysis will show that someone, or many SEVERAL someones were a bit, shall we say, HASTY in their decision to host that group.
This school district is in central NC, south of Winston-Salem. The county is fairly rural, and in the South -- well nestled in the Bible Belt. they have no concerns about openly defying the Establishment Clause as they do not think anyone could be 𝘯𝘰𝘵 Christian. When the adults in charge lack understanding of other's rights due to their lifelong indoctrination, they simply 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸. I fully expect that IF the school responds, it will be the typical press release crying persecution from some out of state intruders interfering with their commuinity values. How many times have we heard the exact same rhetoric from other school districts called out for similar violations?
It just never ends. It is also an unwitting admission of just how badly the churches have failed at getting their message out that they keep trying to force their way into the public schools. What disgusts me to do end is how the heads of the people who signed off on this would explode at the mere suggestion a non-Christian musical group be allowed to perform and present their religious message.
While Social Media has been responsible for the spread of a lot paranoia and conspiracies I think it is slowly driving home the message that all of the gods going around are undetectable myths. I don't see any full parking lots at the churches on my way into my tiny little town in S GA on Sundays. The remaining faithful are going to keep up the constant attacks on and intrusions into secular and public spaces. It is exhausting.
“their youthful performances have afforded them opportunities to make presentations in over 100 public schools where they have reached over 50,000 students.”
I’m sorry, but why do you need to “reach” children if you aren’t doing something you are not supposed to do? In the age of instant information, constant sales ads, and 8 billion people, why would you think that these children haven’t already heard about your religion? They don’t need to be reached. They’ve been heard about it and rejected or accepted it already.
Stay away from children. Your religion harms their minds and too often molests their bodies.
Problem is that the Heath boys will need to have their noses rubbed in the harm their belief system does before they'll get your message ... and very likely, not even then.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear they participate in it. Not saying they do, it just wouldn’t surprise me, since many of those who are caught doing the harm have similar resumes.
Two of these 'boys' are 26 and the other is 28? Now I picture them walking into assembly and greeting everyone with (in Steve Buscemi's voice): "How do you do, fellow kids?"
Who vets these religious performers? Are they background-checked, fingerprinted, and subject to all the other procedures required for anyone else (other than parents) before they are allowed to set foot on a campus?
In my kids’ district, if parents volunteer in the school for any reason, they must have a current background check. Renewed every 5 years. Parents just picking up and dropping off and coming in for the kids’ performances are not required, but to be a volunteer it is required. These folks need to show their background checks.
Stories like this have made the news in so many places over the last several years that they shouldn't need Constitution 101. They really have no excuse: claiming ignorance has been off the table since Engel v Vitale 1962.
But they live in the Fox News bubble. When (rather if) Fox runs a story like this it's on the side of the Christians as they talk about how they are being persecuted for their beliefs.
What beliefs? You might ask? Why the belief that they should be allowed to proselytize in public schools, of course.
I hope that at least some parents will sue the school district for illegally exposing their children to this blatant attempt to persuade their children to submit to indoctrination into their Christian death cult.
"Boy' band? They seem a bit long in the tooth to be boys.
Especially in the Keys For Kids photo. The smile of that guy on the right reminded me of Richard Kiel as "Jaws" in "The Spy Who Loved Me." The smile of a predator.
Is it bad I'm kinda digging it? I like the close harmonies. Maybe a biiiit pitchy but I honestly prefer pitchiness to the plastic sounding pitch correction of the 3 heath bros.
Not for 30 seconds. Then he was done, rolling over to snooze, and she was wondering what all the fuss was about. Then she realized that neither had used protection, so she started earnestly praying to Jesus that He had been watching and would “save” her.
I liked the original song, though I understand it was a cover. (But then I liked 'Never Gonna Give You Up', so my taste in music is a little pedestrian)
Probably with a transvestite hooker, like neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller. Worse for im, the transvestite hooker was black.
He insisted that he enticed the hooker into his car to beat the hooker up, not explore his sexuality. That didn't pass the laugh test with his fellow faux fascists.
I always crack up when conservative homophobes get caught with a man with their pants down and their boots on.
Doctrine of Discovery made the indigenous into non people and therefore good to convert to a political form of Christianity. The zealous need to convert continues without pause in spite of opposition from those wanting freedom from pushy religion. Let’s continue to support the organizations that oppose this like Secular Arizona and FFRF. No doubt in my mind that powerful,people want a conservative theocratic government. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is one of the orgs opposing pushy religion.
Grooming elementary school kids? Wait....was this a drag story reading? No? Hmmmm...... Sure sounds like grooming to me!
The “end” of indoctrination certainly justifies the “means” of unconstitutional, anti-parents rights behavior! Right?
Always! Religion is outside of any man-made rules or laws! Who are you to think you can tell Jesus's favorite people what to do???? Get thee behind me Satan!!!
Welcome to The Cherry picking Club! Nogodz is our leader. We take pride in the fact that devil (if one existed) knows scripture too!
And here I was thinking this was the crowd that was so gung-ho on parental rights.
Parental rights for them to treat their kids like something they own, not actual human beings!
Sounds as though North Carolina wants to play with Tennessee and Oklahoma and Texas. You know, the BIG BOYS of State / Church separation denial. One has to wonder what the Hasty School District administration was thinking when they invited The Heath Brothers to what amounts to a DEMAND Performance for the kids of the school.
As always, I'm pleased to see that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is all over this debacle, and I suspect that the final analysis will show that someone, or many SEVERAL someones were a bit, shall we say, HASTY in their decision to host that group.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛.
I have three words: Christian Fucking Privilege.
This school district is in central NC, south of Winston-Salem. The county is fairly rural, and in the South -- well nestled in the Bible Belt. they have no concerns about openly defying the Establishment Clause as they do not think anyone could be 𝘯𝘰𝘵 Christian. When the adults in charge lack understanding of other's rights due to their lifelong indoctrination, they simply 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸. I fully expect that IF the school responds, it will be the typical press release crying persecution from some out of state intruders interfering with their commuinity values. How many times have we heard the exact same rhetoric from other school districts called out for similar violations?
They don't believe anyone has a right to not be a christian.
It just never ends. It is also an unwitting admission of just how badly the churches have failed at getting their message out that they keep trying to force their way into the public schools. What disgusts me to do end is how the heads of the people who signed off on this would explode at the mere suggestion a non-Christian musical group be allowed to perform and present their religious message.
While Social Media has been responsible for the spread of a lot paranoia and conspiracies I think it is slowly driving home the message that all of the gods going around are undetectable myths. I don't see any full parking lots at the churches on my way into my tiny little town in S GA on Sundays. The remaining faithful are going to keep up the constant attacks on and intrusions into secular and public spaces. It is exhausting.
“sharing Jesus in a place where it's needed most”
I went to public school for 12 years. Jesus wasn't needed at all.
Jesus may love the little children but he’s not credentialed to teach math, science or history, which is the only reason he should ever be in school.
Don’t forget art and music. Learning is easier with these two foundational blocks.
Truth! I could have had a longer list for sure.
I hear he puts on a pretty good magic show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejn4YBOOntM
Hopefully, unlike way too many of his followers, he doesn't "love" little children.
“their youthful performances have afforded them opportunities to make presentations in over 100 public schools where they have reached over 50,000 students.”
I’m sorry, but why do you need to “reach” children if you aren’t doing something you are not supposed to do? In the age of instant information, constant sales ads, and 8 billion people, why would you think that these children haven’t already heard about your religion? They don’t need to be reached. They’ve been heard about it and rejected or accepted it already.
Stay away from children. Your religion harms their minds and too often molests their bodies.
Problem is that the Heath boys will need to have their noses rubbed in the harm their belief system does before they'll get your message ... and very likely, not even then.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear they participate in it. Not saying they do, it just wouldn’t surprise me, since many of those who are caught doing the harm have similar resumes.
Won’t happen. They’re too old for the priests.
Two of these 'boys' are 26 and the other is 28? Now I picture them walking into assembly and greeting everyone with (in Steve Buscemi's voice): "How do you do, fellow kids?"
Who vets these religious performers? Are they background-checked, fingerprinted, and subject to all the other procedures required for anyone else (other than parents) before they are allowed to set foot on a campus?
In my kids’ district, if parents volunteer in the school for any reason, they must have a current background check. Renewed every 5 years. Parents just picking up and dropping off and coming in for the kids’ performances are not required, but to be a volunteer it is required. These folks need to show their background checks.
"There are other words in the songs than jesuce* and god, it means it's secular !"
Probable answer from the school boards or staff.
Constitution laws 101 should be mandatory for anyone, hired or elected working in a school. They shouldn't be allowed to claim ignorance anymore.
&In French, it sounds like jesus. It means I am sucking on something.
Stories like this have made the news in so many places over the last several years that they shouldn't need Constitution 101. They really have no excuse: claiming ignorance has been off the table since Engel v Vitale 1962.
But they live in the Fox News bubble. When (rather if) Fox runs a story like this it's on the side of the Christians as they talk about how they are being persecuted for their beliefs.
What beliefs? You might ask? Why the belief that they should be allowed to proselytize in public schools, of course.
Gee sauce. I think you meant gee sauce. It's really good on communion crackers.
Yesterday I bought a coffee for $3.
Now I have a $3 trade deficit with the coffee shop so I am imposing a 50% trade tariff on them.
Today my coffee cost me $4.50. Art of the Deal!
I hope that at least some parents will sue the school district for illegally exposing their children to this blatant attempt to persuade their children to submit to indoctrination into their Christian death cult.
Gotta get that disinformation pipeline pumping early before those kids know what they’re hearing is fiction.
"Boy' band? They seem a bit long in the tooth to be boys.
Especially in the Keys For Kids photo. The smile of that guy on the right reminded me of Richard Kiel as "Jaws" in "The Spy Who Loved Me." The smile of a predator.
All the boy bands have “the old one”.
But yeah, they’re no New Kids on the Block. And I hated NKOTB
As Mark Conover pointed out, 2 of the Heaths are 26 and the other is 28.
Not just long in the tooth, but one hell of an overbite. :)
They're old enough to have kids in the school system they're invading.
Just like so much of Christianity, they're a sham.
May I present you the 3 teube ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh0Dqp8AzL0
No you may not.
They polluted my ears for years, now it's your turn.
The 3 tube, good one.
Teube, not tube. It's verlan, a slang where you reverse the syllables. Teube = Bête as in stupid 😁
What, you didnt appreciate the hard hitting street wisdom of 'Hangin' Tough'?
Well, Boys turn into Men. All's well as long as they don't end up on the Backstreet.
There’s only 1direction for them to go.
Don't Take that for granted.
I'm NSYNC with that.
sooo true for right wing Christian homophobes.
https://img.ifunny.co/images/b393c6889bca350e554b4dd1709b947017ffe8d2dc0094e406b78cdc84025415_1.jpg
More than just the Christian's ire was raised in viewing the same-gendered kissing.
“let Jesus use you where you are”
Um, that doesn't sound too creepy. Not creepy at all.
https://images.app.goo.gl/qkLcVeMax4SKZXvd9
AAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
A pox on your postings!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RciSEvedXvs
Is it bad I'm kinda digging it? I like the close harmonies. Maybe a biiiit pitchy but I honestly prefer pitchiness to the plastic sounding pitch correction of the 3 heath bros.
"Um, that doesn't sound too creepy. Not creepy at all."
Saw that too. Wow, talk about inappropriate.
They had the chance to think about it and they went with it anyway. Clueless.
I'm old enough to remember a teenage female singer named Tiffany Darwish, who went up quick and down quick as a pop tart in the 1980s.
Her fans pointed out to adults that despite her edgy lyrics, she "went to a Christian school."
After she went down, she posed nude for Playboy. So much for the school's values.
We'll see what happens to this boy band..will they get caught DWI? High on drugs? With hookers? Beating each other up in a drunken bar brawl?
Ah, but they're Christians. And Hollywood celebrities. They'll get forgiven...
I look at these three and just don't see a Harry Styles or Justin Timberlake among them.
Well, at least Tiffany gave me a few laughs from her “I’m a good Christian girl, but I’m disrobing for Playboy” hypocrisy…
She sang "I Think We're Alone Now." Wasn't she afraid Jesus was watching?
Not for 30 seconds. Then he was done, rolling over to snooze, and she was wondering what all the fuss was about. Then she realized that neither had used protection, so she started earnestly praying to Jesus that He had been watching and would “save” her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kw_d3d0XAo
I thought about using the album cover version from his official channel, but this one seemed too perfect.
Had that parody in mind when I typed. Thought about posting it but decided not to.
I liked the original song, though I understand it was a cover. (But then I liked 'Never Gonna Give You Up', so my taste in music is a little pedestrian)
Which of course was a rip-off of Tommy James and the Shondell's version. At least Lene Lovitch made it about aliens.
At least one of them will be caught in a gay scandal.
Probably with a transvestite hooker, like neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller. Worse for im, the transvestite hooker was black.
He insisted that he enticed the hooker into his car to beat the hooker up, not explore his sexuality. That didn't pass the laugh test with his fellow faux fascists.
I always crack up when conservative homophobes get caught with a man with their pants down and their boots on.
And I subscribed to you.
Doctrine of Discovery made the indigenous into non people and therefore good to convert to a political form of Christianity. The zealous need to convert continues without pause in spite of opposition from those wanting freedom from pushy religion. Let’s continue to support the organizations that oppose this like Secular Arizona and FFRF. No doubt in my mind that powerful,people want a conservative theocratic government. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is one of the orgs opposing pushy religion.