by Lee Duigon
November 2, 2023
Should the state force a Christian school to embrace and promote heathen garbage in order to receive state funds available to all the other schools? A case like that has come up in Colorado.
The Darren Patterson Christian Academy had to go to court to secure its First Amendment rights, and a federal judge obliged them. It’s too bad anyone has to file a lawsuit to affirm their portion of the Bill of Rights: you never know when you’ll run afoul of a Democrat judge who’s in the mood for a little social engineering. But sometimes you have no other choice.
Here, the judge ruled that the Christian school could indeed receive state funds “without giving up its religious beliefs,” decisively rejecting the state’s “suggestion” that the school must “change its faith-based rules concerning sexuality and gender.” Amazing! Christian schools can remain Christian schools—as opposed to “Christian schools” that push transgender and are Christian schools in name only. Which of course deceives the children’s parents. Which goes on all the time in public schools.
This court case was a much-needed win for the cause of sanity, and we need more like it. Why? Because government action—I should say Democrat government action—is wearing down the spirit of America.
How do we know that?
Look at what they’ve done to Halloween.
During the last year or two of the Obama regime, I couldn’t help noticing that Halloween decorations in my home town had gotten very skimpy, compared to earlier years. At the time I put it down to weather; but it wasn’t the weather, was it?
Two years into Donald Trump’s term, the decorations were back in all their glory. It was fun! We were having fun on Halloween.
But now, with Democrats back in the White House, we’re back to skimpy. Many houses had no decorations at all. It looks like a national malaise. People are down-hearted. Given our current spiral of inflation, maybe there’s no extra money for gaudy decorations.
Yeahbut! They tell us things are going great! What’s not to love? Oh, little things. War. The threat of wider war. Crime on a scale we haven’t seen before. Non-existent borders. A senile president who can’t stop calling us racists, biggits, anti-science nut jobs, etc. Censorship. The FBI “investigating” parents who don’t like their local school boards’ policies. It all goes to brew a national malaise, pessimism, fear of the future, a deep sense of futility. It’s what Democrats do best.
And this, perversely, is what our Far Left Crazy celebrates. They like it! They like Hamas. They like riots. They like mad-scientist “gender-affirming medical care” that sterilizes children and turns them into lifelong patients.
Here’s their scheme, simplified. They get into office somehow, embark on policies that have negative results—in short, they make a mess and then demand we give them greater powers so they can clean it up. They revel in “mandates,” lockdowns, censorship, and the weaponization of government offices, to be used against the people. And tell us it’s all for our own good, Big Brother knows best.
But there are more of us than there are of them; and if we stood up to them, as the Darren Patterson Christian Academy stood up to them, we might discover something that surprises us: we might discover we are strong. We might discover we can win.
May God grant us the strength and spirit that we need to take our country back.
I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com /. Click the link and drop in for a visit: teachers’ unions will hate it if you do. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .
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