Response To Wear That Controversial T-shirt Or Not, That Is The Question...

Wear That Controversial T-shirt Or Not, That Is The Question...


I believe the school was unfair. They respected the rights of the L.G.B.T.Q. community but not that of Seth Groody. The school administrators chose a side even though they were supposed to remain neutral. I do not like this current environment of forced sensitivity that is being pushed down children's throat today. Children, just like, adults have a right to disagree with something that do not believe in. I do not think that Groody should have had to change his shirt. His rights were violated and no one seemed to care. What kind of lesson is that to teach our kids? Not a good one in my opinion. I believe that actions like the ones taken against Groody keep people like him in the same mind state instead of opening them up to new ideas and will only cause them to push back more against system that they feel is already against them. Disenfranchisement is one of the worst things that schools do to the mindstate of our kids, yet it is done without even a second thought to passive those who disagree with it. When do we have the right to disagree peacefully when no one will let us?

No God? No Way

Copy straight from the Texas Constitution (http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm):

Sec. 4.  RELIGIOUS TESTS.  No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.-Article 1 Section 4

Sec. 6.  FREEDOM OF WORSHIP.  All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.  No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent.  No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion, and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious society or mode of worship.  But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship.- Article 1 Section 6.

Yet sandwiched in between these two article is section 5 which kindly states: Sec. 5.  WITNESSES NOT DISQUALIFIED BY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS.  No person shall be disqualified to give evidence in any of the Courts of this State on account of his religious opinions, or for the want of any religious belief, but all oaths or affirmations shall be administered in the mode most binding upon the conscience, and shall be taken subject to the pains and penalties of perjury.- Article 1 Section 5

So I can go to court and not be judge for not believing in “God” but I cannot run for State Office?

“We’re seeing the most religiously infused laws come from the state level,” said SCA spokeswoman Lauren Youngblood. Laws like these, she said, are “so unconstitutional and so discriminatory.”” - from Atheist Group Takes on the States out of The Texas Tribune (http://www.texastribune.org/2012/06/14/texas-atheists-lobby-texas-legislature/)

In 1961 and 1997, respectively, each state rejected an atheist candidate's application for office. Well looks like if you don’t believe as the machine wants you too, you cannot play.