SuperMatt
Site Master
- Posts
- 7,862
- Reaction score
- 15,004
Whatever happened to separation of church and state?
Kudos to the kids who staged a walkout in response.
Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va.
Students in a West Virginia city have staged a walkout to protest a Christian assembly they were forced to attend during school hours
abcnews.go.com
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly.
When students arrived at the event in the school's auditorium, they were instructed to close their eyes and raise their arms in prayer, Mays said. The teens were asked to give their lives over to Jesus to find purpose and salvation. Those who did not follow the Bible would go to hell when they died, they were told.
Kudos to the kids who staged a walkout in response.
Nibert and other Huntington students staged a walkout during their homeroom period Wednesday to protest the assembly. More than 100 students left their classrooms chanting, “Separate the church and state" and, “My faith, my choice.”
School security turned away reporters who tried to cover the demonstration.
“I don’t think any kind of religious official should be hosted in a taxpayer-funded building with the express purpose of trying to convince minors to become baptized after school hours,” Nibert said. During the walkout, he held a sign reading, “My rights are non-negotiable.”