{"id":2711,"date":"2019-11-07T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:20:59","slug":"dont-cross-the-line-where-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Cross the Line–Where is It?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can we learn about a country and the people who live in it without learning about the religion of the region?\u00a0 If we\u2019re going to learn about the culture, don\u2019t we have to get a picture of the people\u2019s daily lives? Can we get a true picture of their daily lives and leave out their beliefs (religion)?<\/p>\n

In America, we have our constitution which gives us the freedom of religion.\u00a0 It also defines a separation of church and state.\u00a0 Where, then, is the line between the two when it comes to teaching children in the classrooms in America? It seems that this line is left to interpretation\u2014oftentimes crossed\u2014oftentimes a double standard. Here\u2019s a recent example:<\/p>\n

In Maryland, high school student Caleigh Wood, refused to participate in an assignment that would require her to write the Islamic conversion prayer.\u00a0 This prayer includes the verbiage \u201cthere is no god but Allah\u201d. Caleigh believed this crossed the line contradicting her Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of Thomas More Law Center, filed a petition on Wood\u2019s behalf which stated, \u201cThe schools are promoting Islam over Christianity or any other religion, and you have a double standard, which we believe is a violation of the establishment clause.\u201d\u00a0 He also stated in a press release, \u201cUnder the pretext of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s petition was denied by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. It ruled that this case did not violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment.\u00a0 Charles County Public Schools, where Wood attended, stated after the decision that the school did not \u201cimpermissibly endorse any religion and did not compel Wood to profess any belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Caleigh\u2014she received an F in the class and was made to watch a pro-Islam Power Point presentation.\u00a0 Did this cross the line?\u00a0 If so, what can be done in creating the proper boundaries in the classroom?\u00a0 If not, does the line keep moving in preferring certain religions over another? Don\u2019t we need to be true to our country and teach American children the Christian culture we were founded on? \u00a0Where is it?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can we learn about a country and the people who live in it without learning about the religion of the region?\u00a0 If we\u2019re going to learn about the culture, don\u2019t we have to get a picture of the people\u2019s daily lives? Can we get a true picture of their daily lives and leave out their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}