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When the trip for school kids turns into a baptism

So, the coach takes high school players out for steaks and an encouraging word, and the night ends with eight or nine of them baptized. Should the coach and the superintendent, who happened to be there, be reprimanded, or were these kids old enough to make up their own minds about wanting to have a relationship with Jesus?

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Posted by nmclaughlin on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 4:40 pm

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Get A Clue

September 10, 2009 - 11:20 am EDT

I have never seen proof for psychic abilities, but I'll go out on a limb here and predict the very same people who had no problem whatsoever pulling their children from school for a speech by our President will have absolutely no problem with a school agent shoving his ideology down the throats of his charges...so long as it's their narrowly-defined set of beliefs, of course.
A Sunday School I once attended used to bribe us with boxes of CrackerJack--one for each 'guest' we brought to Sunday School with us. I asked the pastor in front of the congregation why someone as powerful as Jesus would have to resort to outright bribery to get His message to people. (I was 12 years old.) I was invited to not attend ever again.
Well, at least now it's a steak dinner instead of a box of candy.

nemo0037

September 10, 2009 - 1:25 pm EDT

Interesting. I hope Nancy adds a link to the story...

Yes, as a public school employee, the coach had no business enticing his students into a religious ceremony. That was both incorrect from a church-state separation standpoint and from a teacher-student interaction standpoint. I read on one web story that the system superintendent is defending the coach. But that might not be very surprising, as they both attend the same church. You might expect such shenanigans from small-town school employees in Kentucky. Sadly, you won't always be disappointed.