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Nothing more dangerous than those rogue Catholics…

Posted: May 21, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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…praying the Rosary in schools:

A 13-year-old New York student was suspended for wearing rosary beads to school.

Raymond Hosier was sent home for two days over the religious symbol, visible outside his clothing.

His school district in Schenectady said students are not allowed to wear beads out of concern they may be gang-related. Hosier, however, said they’re comforting since the loss of his brother and uncle.

After all if you have kids praying the Rosary they might start honoring their father’s and their mothers or deciding to love their neighbors as themselves and we can’t have that.

And of course if it was an Islamic symbol they would not have dared to touch it, but since Catholicism says to love your enemy instead of cutting off their head the school department doesn’t fear them.

However I’ll bet the school department fears a canny lawyer nearly as much as much as Islamic violence so if I was an enterprising young lawyer I’d be calling this boy’s parents STAT.

He won’t get support from the national media either, they only like Catholics who don’t believe.

If this upsets you then watch this post at Adrienne’s Corner to cheer you up.

Boy would I love to be a lawyer near Live Oak High School

Posted: May 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…because the potential suit from this case is going to be the easiest money they will ever earn:

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the Vice Principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag t-shirts inside-out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today,” Daniel Galli said.

The boys said the administrators called their t-shirts “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.

“They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended,” Dominic Maciel, Galli’s friend, said.

Hey lets ask the NBA if they back this school district too.

Via Sissy Willis on Twitter.

Update: Michelle Malkin and Zombie pick up the story. Zombie has a particularly salient point concerning “racism”:

Even worse, fearing violence from Hispanic students, the administrators solve the crisis by banishing the “offensive” items, rather than warning students that any violence will be severely punished. In other words, the racist administrators insultingly assumed that their Hispanic students would erupt in violence at the sight of an American flag, and the only way to prevent this is to cower at the presumptive violence and preemptively cave in to the mob’s demands that American flags be banned from campus.

That is racism. Apparently the administrators consider their Mexican students so violent, so unable to control themselves that it was necessary to remove American flags from the student minority. Astounding!

And another great thing about the Catholic Church our schools are so good…

Posted: April 20, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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…non catholic millionaires help fund them:

“I’m not Catholic,” says Grauer. “I grew up in a household that was Presbyterian and Episcopalian. My mother was one and my father was the other. I don’t really remember who was which. I went to Sunday school at both places, but these days I don’t spend a lot of time in church, I’m ashamed to say.”

“But,” Grauer quickly adds, “what I care about is the kids. I want to make sure they have an opportunity to get a good education. I believe that the delivery mechanism in Catholic schools is really good. It equips these kids to ultimately go on to higher education and become productive citizens—maybe even work for Bloomberg. I don’t think too much about whether a school or a donor or a student is Catholic or non-Catholic. I just think about rallying the troops to raise as much money as we can to make sure these kids have a decent opportunity.”

Catholic education is a lot more expensive than it used to be, when my older brothers and sisters when to St. Anthony’s more than half of the teachers were nuns. When I went there were only 3 nuns left. When my sons when there were no classes were taught by nuns. That means lay teachers who have to make a lay living.

Via the Corner as they say read the whole thing.

Voices of the Tea Party: Nick’s School Field Trip

Posted: April 18, 2010 by datechguy in short films/interviews, special events, tea parties
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Nick’s class attended the Boston Rally on a field trip.

The downside of getting on that bus is that I wasn’t able to follow up with people I would have liked to, so Nick if you are reading this e-mail me or send a comment so I can e-mail you.

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