Jews run out of town

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. The religion (if any) of a second family in the lawsuit is not known, because they're suing as Jane and John Doe; they also fear retaliation. Both families are asking relief from "state-sponsored religion."

 

On the evening in August 2004 when the board was to announce its new policy, hundreds of people turned out for the meeitng. The Dobrich family and Jane Doe felt intimidated and asked a state trooper to escort them.

 

The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board's opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him "take your yarmulke off!" His statement, read by Samantha, confided "I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy."

 

...A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might "disappear" like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later.

 

The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to "go back up north."

 

In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby.

 

She was the only Jewish student in her graduating class. The complaint relates that local pastor, Jerry Fike, in his invocation, followed requests for "our heavenly Father's" guidance for the graduates with:

 

I also pray for one specific student, that You be with her and guide her in the path that You have for her. And we ask all these things in Jesus' name.

 

Here and here.

 

The identity of the family was publicly revealed by a group called Stop the ACLU.

 

[2GOLD 0]

The Indian River School District? Really?

I went to more than one Indian River school district sponsored function and they didn't do the opening pray once.

 

Then again, it might have gotten worse. I know there was a complaint because they did a prayer during graduation and the football teams around here still do prayers. But the kids never seemed to have a problem with each other, so I'm wondering who the hell called the kid "Jew boy"

 

That's nuts, the school is like, 10 minutes from here.

[NoCalMike 0]

Wow, those people sure do have Christ's "love" flowing through them!?!

[Guest Vitamin X]

Fucking Christians.

[Vampiro69 0]

Isn't it great when fanatical religious zealots go crazy? It doesn't matter if it is Christians or Muslims they make the rest of them look bad.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

Fucking Christians.

 

Nice. You going to give a "Fucking [insert politcal or religious group here]" every time someone in a school or school district administration shits on someone else because that person is a Christian?

 

Religious intolerance is ignorant and misguided, regardless of who it is. But don't act smug and sanctimonious because this time it's a "Christian".

[Slayer 0]

Fucking Conspiracy Victim

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Aw, c'mon, this is just another example of our country's WAR ON CHRISTIANITY!

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

Fucking Conspiracy Victim

 

Not often enough unfortunately.