Bibles on the Playground

I was astounded to read where an Knox county school district and Karns Elementary school in Knoxville Ten. has banned any reading or discussion of the bible during recess. The principle and other officials are quoted as saying "that recess is not "free time" and that, therefore, the school can prohibit Bible reading during that period."

This is ridiculous! when I was in school the only free time you had was at recess, granted I didn't spend it reading the Bible but 10 year old Luke Whitson has decided he wants to. Fortunately the ADF (Alliance Defense Fund) has come to the rescue with attorneys asking a federal district court to make the school district respect the Constitutional rights of this student.

If we as Christians do not do more to stand up for our rights we will lose them all together. I can respect the right of an atheist not to believe, and although I would feel led to witness to them as is my responsibility as a Christian, they have the right to believe what they want. The same would go for those of another faith.

The sad part is that in today's culture everything is permissible and everyone has the right to believe or do what they want except for Christians. Don't misunderstand me here, I am not advocating persecution of other religions or other people for their beliefs, but I am saying that as Christians we have the same rights guaranteed by the constitution as any other citizen.

Christians we need to unite in this, I think we are taking the "Turn the other cheek" approach to our God given rights and if we continue we will not have any God given rights because judiciaries and governments will have taken our rights and will begin dictatating to us what we can and can not do. They will tell us how and when we can worship.

This is already happening in some places, pastors are under persecution for preaching against homosexuality and are being charged with hate speech see this link. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_hat8.htm

This is creeping closer and closer to our very back yards and our main streets and we must be the ones to stand and say enough is enough. Believe what you will but stop trying to stop me from believing what I believe about the one true God.