You can just tell that the progressive lefties at NBC are gritting their teeth while writing this one. You can feel the disdain oozing from the keyboard.
This low-down, no-good, stinking Christian non-profit is bringing God back to public schools!
"They're not supposed to be learning about Jesus! We want them to know the GayBC's and listen to drag queens read from Gender Queer!"
So, what's happening is there's this non-profit Christian charity taking advantage of the Supreme Court's ruling that allows for religious instruction to students during school hours as long as it's off campus.
The group called Lifewise Academy sends their own red school bus to pick up the kids from school, about half of the 5th grade class, during club period and drives them off campus to participate in 30 minutes of Bible study, praise and worship, and Christian instruction.
And just when the godless secularists were finally producing a decent society!
And, the best part, it's a growing movement.
When LifeWise launched in 2018, the initial goal was to serve 25 schools by 2025, but it surpassed that long ago. By the start of this year, LifeWise had set up chapters in more than 300 schools in a dozen states, teaching 35,000 public school students weekly Bible lessons that are usually scheduled to coincide with lunch or noncore courses such as library, art or gym class.
Here's how it works:
Now that I know this exists, I have to ask, why isn't this in EVERY city and school district.
If you're a Christian and your district doesn't have a LifeWise group, what's preventing you from starting one?
I think this is the best.
LifeWise has won support from conservatives on the front lines of the new culture wars over LGBTQ inclusion, sexually explicit library books and the role of racism in American history. But it also has a growing foothold in some progressive suburbs and cities, including deep-blue Columbus, Ohio.
Oh no! Even BLUE cities are having well-meaning Christians evangelizing youth in schools! How is this allowed to stand?
They absolutely hate this.
But parents and activists who've mobilized against LifeWise say that busing students to nearby churches, where they sometimes collect prizes and eat candy, has made some non-Christian children feel left out or pressured to attend.
"Whether it's happening on campus or not, this program is bringing religion into the school," said Demrie Alonzo, an English tutor who works at several schools with LifeWise programs in central Ohio. "It's not fair to the kids of different religions."
Oh boo-hoo! The government gets to indoctrinate kids for only 7 and a half hours on a few days instead of the full 8 hours of normal indoctrination! Whatever will we do?!
This is, of course, silly. Because there's nothing more that these Christians would love to see than for non-Christians to join the group and be evangelized. That's the dream.
It's also dumb because there's nothing to stop a Muslim group from doing the same thing. Or any religious or special interest group. The only group that might be discriminated against would be the gay communist group, but they get the rest of the school day anyway.
At a time when conservatives nationally are fighting what they portray as liberal indoctrination in schools, some parents and critics see the opposite playing out, accusing LifeWise of using schools to draw children into an evangelical faith tradition whose members overwhelmingly vote Republican.
Opponents have also documented several instances of teachers and administrators promoting LifeWise to students, either by allowing LifeWise volunteers to visit classrooms, hosting schoolwide assemblies or advertising the program in paperwork sent home to parents — actions that, according to some legal experts, could violate the First Amendment.
Yes, "experts" think it's a violation of the First Amendment, the FREE SPEECH amendment, if teachers are allowed to speak about the LifeWise group.
Sometimes I wonder if lefties can hear themselves when they speak and realize just how dumb they sound.
Alonzo, the tutor who works at several central Ohio schools, said she witnessed an elementary principal in the Fredericktown Local School District guide LifeWise volunteers from classroom to classroom at the start of the school year. In one of the classes, Alonzo said she saw a volunteer share a permission slip with a Hindu student.
"I told the woman, ‘This student believes in a different God; this isn't for her,'" Alonzo said. "And the woman said, ‘Yeah, but I was just telling her about Jesus.' And I said, ‘No, no, no. This is not appropriate.'"
Man, people really hate Christian evangelism, don't they? It's like they don't understand that Christians want everyone else to be Christian. The idea that Christians believe Christian things somehow scandalized these woke "diversity is our strength" public school employees.
I wonder if this English tutor would also protest against drag queens promoting themselves in classrooms. Something tells me there's only one religion she and the mainstream media really oppose.
