Monday, February 10, 2014

Franklin Graham, King of the Pharisees

This news has leaked on Facebook:
Franklin Graham announced to his employees this morning he is shutting Samaritan's Purse down at 2pm and instructed employees (one of the largest employers in our area) to "bring a snack" and go to the School Board Meeting room and fill up all the seats. So much for respecting the democratic process!
The Watauga School Board meeting this evening at 7 p.m., which Franklin Graham wants to steamroll, will be making a final decision on whether to ban Isabel Allende's "House of the Spirits" from Watauga High senior English classes.

Guess which side Franklin Graham's on.

What does this political activity do to Mr. Graham's tax exemption? Anything?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

No doubt the Republican Jesus told Frankin to get his lazy shiftless ass out of Bed this morning get down to the School Board meeting tonight and stop the 7th Day Atheist movement from reading the Book no matter what the USA consitution says about free Speech........

Anonymous said...

I don't believe this would be considered a political issue. If it were political, it would be for a specific candidate or party. This is an educational issue, just like the Moral Mondays is not a "political" issue. Since this is not political, it may be appropriate for the issue to be discussed, even promoted in churches (just like the Moral March) and non-profit organizations without fear of losing ones tax status.
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Anonymous said...

To Anon @2:57 - this book has been discussed by the Board of Ed numerous times. It is being taught in a public school. A religious institution (with tax-exempt status for being a religious institution) is now asking its employees to stack a Board of Education meeting in order to force the Board of Ed to follow their particular religious beliefs and ban this book. That's not good policy.

This is a public education issue. That a religious organization wants to ban a book because it mentions rape (I believe that was the initial issue the parent had with the book) oversteps the separation of church and state.

Is Franklin Graham aware of the Steubenville rape case, where high school football players were convicted of raping a high school girl? Rape is part of our culture. Not allowing high school students to read about rape is perhaps not the best education for our students.

Anonymous said...

I do not want Samaritan's Purse to impose its particular brand of morality on the community.

Franklin Graham is to be commended for his spiritual life - it's done him quite well, financially speaking - he lives in much greater affluence than our public school teachers. To have Graham impose his beliefs on an entire public school system is absolutely wrong. And how many of those Samaritan's Purse employees sent to protest the book actually read it?

Rape, sadly, is an issue in our community - and in the world. To discuss this book as "pornographic" showcases the ignorance of these people about literature and how it reflects life within our world.

Anonymous said...

How is this any different than when the teachers stuffed the commissioners meeting other than the people from the Purse do not have a personal monetary reason to attend?

The teachers claimed it was for the children, not their pocketbooks.

Anonymous said...

How is this any different than when the teachers stuffed the commissioners meeting other than the people from the Purse do not have a personal monetary reason to attend?

The teachers claimed it was for the children, not their pocketbooks.

Anonymous said...

To Anonymous at 7:57. Teachers are hired for the purpose of teaching. It is their job to select appropriate materials.

Samaritan's Purse is a non-profit religious organization that wants to impose its morality on the Watauga County Schools curriculum. That's a violation of the separation of church and state held so dear by our founding fathers.

Have you read the book? To consider it "pornographic" is inexplicable to me. High school students are preparing to enter the world, either as part of the labor force or as college students. To say they are "too immature" to handle a book that covers issues like rape and global political realities like that found in Chile is mind-boggling. These parents must ban their children from reading the newspaper.

We live in a complex, dangerous world, a world where rape exists at the high school level. Banning a book because it has rape scenes does not protect our children - it hides them from the complexities of our world, leaving them ill-prepared to deal with them.

Anonymous said...

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You are dang right I feel good about exposing that Fraud of the Republican Jesus censor movement. As Spirtual Adviser to the 7 th Day Atheist movement which does not pay much along with a bunch of Atheists who do not listen to me anyway but are smart enough to let me bash this fool without the fear of a Bush Obama enforcement team to shut me up is enough to prove that the USA is loaded with 1% Religious corporate Fascist Nazi's..No wonder Americans are their country under this phony Police State Agenda by the Franklins of the Universe..

Don't blame me! I voted for Putin!

Anonymous said...

Anon 7:57 said:

"How is this any different than when the teachers stuffed the commissioners meeting other than the people from the Purse do not have a personal monetary reason to attend?

The teachers claimed it was for the children, not their pocketbooks."

Sorry, this is completely bogus. There is absolutely no financial gain for teachers in taking a stand on this matter, one way or another. If anything, they take a risk by standing up to vocal parents and politicians in the community. It takes a serious lapse of logic, reasoning - heck, common sense - to claim that teachers have any financial motivation here.