Pastor wants Bible study with schools

[Voegelin]

News-Record (http://www.news-record.com/)
By Jennifer Fernandez
Staff writer

GREENSBORO — A pastor wants area churches to bring students to the word of God.

Eric Sturdivant, elder at Final Call Ministry on Franklin Boulevard, is convening a "No Soul Left Behind" meeting Saturday to discuss pairing churches with area schools to provide Bible study classes . . .

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/NEWSREC0101/70727007/1008/GTCOM

[CyberPaladin]

I wonder how long before some whiny liberal parent sues trying to shutdown this wonderful program.

[hazeleyes80]

I wonder how long before some whiny liberal parent sues trying to shutdown this wonderful program.

Sadly, if it's already in the news, I'm sure the ACLU is already working on its case against the program. :( :sigh:

[CyberPaladin]

Sadly, if it's already in the news, I'm sure the ACLU is already working on its case against the program. :( :sigh:

But at least the ACLU will have a very weak case since it's after school and requires a permission slip plus it doesn't hurt either that it's in North Carolina.

[Voegelin]

OP said the Supreme Court ruled this constitutional in 1952 (too bad there even had to be a ruling on it). I'm not familiar with the case. Anyone know which one it is?

When I was in elementary school, Catholic kids used to leave early one day a week to go to catechism.

For a long time I thought catechism was something just for children.

[CyberPaladin]

Voegelin the name of the case was Zorach v. Clauson.
Here is the wikipedia link.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorach_v._Clauson

[Voegelin]

Voegelin the name of the case was Zorach v. Clauson.
Here is the wikipedia link.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorach_v._Clauson

Thanks. See it arose out of McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) as I suspected.

FDR should never have nominated a Klu Klux Klan member to the bench, former Klan member or not. Black never got over his visceral animus toward Catholics. I would bet anything Leo Pfeffer and Hugo Black huddled together on Zorach (as they did on McCollum) trying to figure out something to hang a no decision on but couldn't find a justification.

[CyberPaladin]

Thanks. See it arose out of McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) as I suspected.

FDR should never have nominated a Klu Klux Klan member to the bench, former Klan member or not. Black never got over his visceral animus toward Catholics. I would bet anything Leo Pfeffer and Hugo Black huddled together on Zorach (as they did on McCollum) trying to figure out something to hang a no decision on but couldn't find a justification.
This fascinating thanks Voegelin.:)

[Voegelin]

CyberPaladin...Before he was Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Black defended the Rev. Edwin Roscoe
Stephenson who was charged with the murder of Father James Edwin Coyle.

Father Coyle was shot dead two hours after he witnessed the marriage of Ruth Stephenson, the daughter of Rev. Stephenson, to Pedro Gusman--a native of Puerto Rico.

Hugo Black, with the help of the Klu Klux Klan, won an acquital of Rev. Stephenson. Defense lawyers cannot usually be criticized for whom they choose to defend. In this case however, Blacks membership in the Klan and his comments about Catholics during the trial do leave him open for censure.

The moral of the Justice Black saga is those who use the courts to censor others should consider the same courts can come back to censor them. The Christians who applauded Blacks' attacks on Catholics, his attempts to marginalize Catholic schools, now find themselves under attack by secularists who use Black's Supreme Court decisions against them.