"Texas Parents Sue Governor, School District over Moment of Silence"
"Dad Crusades against God"
David Wallace Croft of Carrollton Texas has decided that the moment of silence in schools is too much of an imposition on his lifestyle, and so he wants to make it illegal.
From the Dallas Morning News:
He defines himself as an atheist, an "optihumanist" and a Libertarian. Over the past several years, he has fought any signs of religion at the Carrollton school his three children attend.
Mr. Croft, 39, often stopped by the campus looking for violations. He took photos as evidence of "In God We Trust" posters hanging on the wall and complained about a teacher wearing an Abilene Christian University shirt. (Hmm...did he say he was a Libertarian?)
Libertarian:
(a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
(n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.
The lawsuit says a Rosemeade teacher told Mr. Croft's son that the minute of silence held each morning was specifically for prayer. She then bowed her head, clasped her hands and began to pray. (Insert jaw dropping gasp here! What nerve!)
"Moment of silence bills have been popping up in additional states," Mr. Croft wrote on his blog. "To have millions of public school children waste a minute of education each day for a practice that has no secular purpose seems to me like a great sin."
(And how would Mr. Croft know what a sin is if he is not a believer in a higher power, other than himself of course?)
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Croft probably comes from a xian background like me....and an answer to your david wallace croft question....swordsandlace, that my son can join but his dad can't be a scout master because they make me sign something that I think is wrong, an oath to a god. Then when he says screw the bigots we'll go to camp quest.
This isn't about whether or not the dad wants to be the scoutmaster and you know that perfectly well. Mr. Croft no more wants to be a scoutmaster than the man on the moon. He wants to instruct his children on how to behave to get the maximum effect on his lawsuit against the school, which is putting them in painful social situations. It's going to mark them for life. Trust me.
Hubris is a great sin of contemporary U*Uism* and David Wallace Croft is apparently providing a fine example of U*U hubris in what even some atheists describe as his "anti-religious crusade". It really says a lot about the sorry state of contemporary Unitarian*Universalism when an intolerant fundamentalist atheist U*U like David Wallace Croft very publicly engages in fighting against the influence of the "Judeo-Christian monotheism" that both Unitarianism and Universalism were founded upon. . .
*CUC Executive Director Mary Bennett's asinine "corporate identity" for Unitarian Universalism
Thanks Robin. That "Eye of God" image is really humbling and says it all, IMHO.
I should put that on my desktop. It's truly awesome.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again until I am blue in the face. Mr. Croft has the right to educate his children in a God-free zone if he wishes, and teach them anything he chooses.
Nobody is trying to tell him he can't do that. Christian parents do it all the time and it's because they don't agree with the secularism in the schools. How ironic is that?
So I really don't understand what the big deal is, other than the fact that the man wants attention, plain and simple. Attention and to piss off his community, both of which he been able to achieve unequivocally. I'd like to see the tax bill for this. Some say we need to "pay up" and just swallow this pill. Well I say no.
Enough tax money is spent on frivolous lawsuits. Seriously. it's *almost* as bad as these defense suits aimed at protecting illegals that shoot to kill our border patrol and law enforcement. Also, how about spending some money to keep child predators behind bars for more than 6 months?
You're welcome Swords&Lace. Here is one of the best images of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" that is big enough that you could use it as a desktop background.
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