Three Students Suspended for Tebowing…
December 16, 2011 at 9:26 AM Leave a comment
This is ridiculous. Like most who fail to actually understand the “separation of church and state” clause, the school administration over reacted to four young men who stopped in the hallway to “tebow,” a term used in reference to QB Tebow who stops to kneel and give thanks to the Lord before each football game.
Because the students were “praying,” they were suspended. Give me a break! The truth of the matter is that the students did nothing wrong! The school was not enforcing a religious code and had they been doing that then the school would have been in the wrong. In this case, the students themselves opted to kneel down as QB Tebow does prior to each game.
Because of this action, the students were unceremoniously suspended. The tragedy here is that the school apparently believes the students violated the separation of church and state and had the school done nothing – God forbid – one can only imagine that other students might have started “Tebowing”! Horrors!
Look, it was the students not the school that from an impromptu standpoint, knelt down and “Tebowed.” Neither the school officials or teachers forced the students to kneel. Had the school done that, then the school’s administration would have been found guilty of not separating church and state because they would have been enforcing a religious code of conduct.
In this case – and admittedly, I’m not a lawyer – it appears that the students simply imitated Tebow and received a suspension for doing so. The question needs to be asked, on what grounds? According to one article, the students were suspended for causing a traffic jam in the hallway. [1] Wow, really? A traffic jam?
I don’t know, but maybe I’m getting cynical, because the students couldn’t have caused that much of a traffic jam that would have lasted for that long. However, a traffic jam is against school policies and apparently the boys were warned before. The students did not seem to be aware of that fact. In truth it is difficult to believe that four students could cause a traffic jam.
Maybe it’s just me, but I cannot help but wonder if these four young men had been Muslim men, kneeling while facing Mecca, and praying (five times each day) to Allah, what would have happened? Had they been suspended, we would have heard from CAIR and other anti-American groups claiming bigotry. Sen. Ted Lieu (if he hasn’t already learned his lesson), would have fired off a letter to the school district claiming bias and an unAmerican attitude. He would have demanded an apology to the students, their families, and Muslims everywhere.
Then guess what would have occurred? The four Muslim men would have somehow been accommodated by being given a specific place to pray while in school, which would have of course been a direct violation of the separation of church and state.
Folks, it’s not over I’m sure. At some point, some Muslim young people will “try” the system to see how it works and where it fails. If they wind up becoming suspended because of it, they will protest and demand this and that and they will be placated. Why? Because no one wants to have to deal with angry Muslims who might just as easily pick up a sword (or gun) and start hacking away, or at least threaten to do so. Even if they don’t, civilized people have a difficult time dealing with people who are not civilized and who have no qualms about striking out when they believe their “rights” are violated.
Apparently, after the original four students Tebowed, as many as 40 others also participated. No word on whether or not the other 40 were suspended as well…
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