Southern Baptists to Crucify Jesus -- Again?
Not long after the Brown decision outlawed segregated public schools in 1954, the southern racists launched a campaign to set up segregated private schools to sabotage integration. Such an effort, if successful would, of course, have allowed the public school system to be resegegated by cuts in budgets, etc. Since that time various dodges of this kind have been tried to segregate our schools while at the same time tapping public funds to promote and sustain same, e.g. the school voucher movement, some charter schools as well as 'home' schooling.
It is extremely sad, therefore, to see the Southern Baptists at it again with this horrendous pretext -- their version of Jesus can only be taught in their private schools? What an obscenity so far as the real Jesus is concerned: "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect" (Matthew 24:24). Why must each new generation set about recrucifying man of caring vision? Needless to say the anti-Christ lurks among such people. Shame!
What follow are the Southern Baptist Home Schooling resolution and an Encarta report on the comparable effort following Brown which was condemned by the courts. Wonder where the Bush court will go? Ed Kent
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http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200406/200406030.asp
Southern Baptist Christian Education Resolution
The Southern Baptist Convention is in the midst of a debate about the suitability of public schools for Christian children.
The Southern Baptist Annual Convention, which will be held this year in Indianapolis June 15-16th, votes on resolutions which reflects the opinion of the convention meeting for that year and are non-binding on the churches.
A pro-homeschool resolution has been submitted by T.C. Pinckney and Bruce N. Shortt to the Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee. This committee decides what will be brought to the floor, but any messenger may request to bring a resolution to the floor for a vote.
Position:
HSLDA strongly supports this resolution.
Homeschooling is growing rapidly and successfully producing mature Christian citizens with a Biblical worldview. It's time for the wider Christian community to make the choice for homeschooling.
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761595158_8/African_American_History.html
XXII
The Brown Decision
During the 1940s and 1950s, NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. These laws separated blacks and whites in such areas of public life as schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus stations, and public transportation. The NAACP focused on segregation in education, and won a number of court victories, culminating in the Supreme Court's ruling in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This ruling declared that separate facilities were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional, thus reversing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
However, President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not support a strong federal role in enforcing desegregation, an attitude that encouraged Southern resistance. State troopers were used in Texas to prevent integration; people who supported integration risked losing their jobs; and segregationists set off bombs in Tennessee and Alabama. In a 'Southern Manifesto,' 101 congressmen vowed to resist integration.
Meanwhile, after three years of negotiation, the black community and the school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, devised a plan to enroll nine black students at Central High School. When the plan was implemented in the fall of 1957, Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. The public outcry forced Eisenhower to act. He put the National Guard under federal direction and sent federal troops to enforce the Brown decision and protect the students from white mobs. Nevertheless, the following year, Faubus closed all of Little Rock's high schools rather than integrate them. Ten years after the Brown decision, less than two percent of Southern black children attended integrated schools.
Whites in many areas of the South organized private white schools rather than accept integration. In 1959 officials in Prince Edward County, Virginia, moved white students and state education funds to hastily organized white private schools. For four years, until privately funded black schools could be organized, black students in the county had no schools. Finally in 1963 the county complied with court rulings and reopened the public schools. During the early 1960s, it was necessary to maintain federal troops and marshals on the University of Mississippi campus to ensure the right of a black student to attend classes.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
It is extremely sad, therefore, to see the Southern Baptists at it again with this horrendous pretext -- their version of Jesus can only be taught in their private schools? What an obscenity so far as the real Jesus is concerned: "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect" (Matthew 24:24). Why must each new generation set about recrucifying man of caring vision? Needless to say the anti-Christ lurks among such people. Shame!
What follow are the Southern Baptist Home Schooling resolution and an Encarta report on the comparable effort following Brown which was condemned by the courts. Wonder where the Bush court will go? Ed Kent
............................................
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200406/200406030.asp
Southern Baptist Christian Education Resolution
The Southern Baptist Convention is in the midst of a debate about the suitability of public schools for Christian children.
The Southern Baptist Annual Convention, which will be held this year in Indianapolis June 15-16th, votes on resolutions which reflects the opinion of the convention meeting for that year and are non-binding on the churches.
A pro-homeschool resolution has been submitted by T.C. Pinckney and Bruce N. Shortt to the Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee. This committee decides what will be brought to the floor, but any messenger may request to bring a resolution to the floor for a vote.
Position:
HSLDA strongly supports this resolution.
Homeschooling is growing rapidly and successfully producing mature Christian citizens with a Biblical worldview. It's time for the wider Christian community to make the choice for homeschooling.
....................................
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761595158_8/African_American_History.html
XXII
The Brown Decision
During the 1940s and 1950s, NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. These laws separated blacks and whites in such areas of public life as schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus stations, and public transportation. The NAACP focused on segregation in education, and won a number of court victories, culminating in the Supreme Court's ruling in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This ruling declared that separate facilities were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional, thus reversing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
However, President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not support a strong federal role in enforcing desegregation, an attitude that encouraged Southern resistance. State troopers were used in Texas to prevent integration; people who supported integration risked losing their jobs; and segregationists set off bombs in Tennessee and Alabama. In a 'Southern Manifesto,' 101 congressmen vowed to resist integration.
Meanwhile, after three years of negotiation, the black community and the school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, devised a plan to enroll nine black students at Central High School. When the plan was implemented in the fall of 1957, Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. The public outcry forced Eisenhower to act. He put the National Guard under federal direction and sent federal troops to enforce the Brown decision and protect the students from white mobs. Nevertheless, the following year, Faubus closed all of Little Rock's high schools rather than integrate them. Ten years after the Brown decision, less than two percent of Southern black children attended integrated schools.
Whites in many areas of the South organized private white schools rather than accept integration. In 1959 officials in Prince Edward County, Virginia, moved white students and state education funds to hastily organized white private schools. For four years, until privately funded black schools could be organized, black students in the county had no schools. Finally in 1963 the county complied with court rulings and reopened the public schools. During the early 1960s, it was necessary to maintain federal troops and marshals on the University of Mississippi campus to ensure the right of a black student to attend classes.
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
posted by Ed Kent at 10:17 AM
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Ken,
Do you have any more information on the role of southern racists to use public funds to open "private" schools (Charter Schools) in Virginia or elsewhere as a response to the "Brown" decision?
Thank you,
Phyllis
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