{"id":20463,"date":"2013-10-14T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20463"},"modified":"2013-10-14T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:31:13","slug":"christian-youth-pastors-banned-from-a-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/christian-youth-pastors-banned-from-a-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian youth pastors banned from a school"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deliberate expunging of Christianity from public life in the US has reached the point where the mere presence of Christian pastors in a school is regarded as “pretty dangerous”<\/em>. I am quite sure that if Richard Dawkins showed up “just there to be there” <\/em>he would have been welcomed with open arms, in spite of the fact that he doesn’t appear anywhere without intending to proselytise his disbelief in anything that might help people lead decent lives.<\/p>\n

When we were in our former location, St. Hilda’s youth pastor used to visit the local high school to chat with the students; the staff were happy to have him there.\u00a0 Canada, it seems, hasn’t yet reached the level of anti-Christian bigotry prevalent in the US.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Three volunteer Christian youth pastors have been temporarily banned from a Washington state middle school after parents heard from students that the three were proselytizing during lunch.<\/p>\n

KIROTV.com<\/a> reports the Bainbridge Island School District has hired an outside contractor to conduct a \u201cfact-finding\u201d mission into the allegations concerning the three volunteer cafeteria supervisors.<\/p>\n

“We can’t ignore this. There are just too many serious issues to consider here,” board president Mike Spence told KomoNews.com. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty dangerous. It\u2019s a pretty slippery slope I guess I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, one of the volunteers denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

“The only time church may have come in is when they say, ‘What do you do?’ my response is, ‘I’m a youth pastor.’ Even sometimes say I’m a leader because most of the kids don’t know what a youth pastor is,” said Danny Smith.<\/p>\n

“I don’t wanna defend myself, I want to defend my motives. It’s not about me, it’s about why I’m there. It’s not for evangelizing and it’s not for proselytizing or recruiting, but it’s just there to be there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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