Mississippi High School Lawsuit: Students Allegedly Forced To Attend 'Lectures' On Being 'Open' To Jesus (drug, solutions)

[Spartanguy]

Students at Mississippi's Northwest Rankin High School who claim that they and their classmates were forced to attend assemblies about Christianity and the power of Jesus Christ are getting help from a top atheist organization to put an end to the meetings.

In a lawsuit filed by the American Humanist Association on behalf of the plaintiffs, students claim that the school sponsored mandatory “Christian Assemblies" organized by a local Evangelical church. Alexis Smith, a senior at the school who says she attended one of the assemblies, says in the lawsuit: "Faculty and parents stood near the exit door, preventing students from leaving," while an administrator "harassed several students who attempted to leave." She claims that a classmate not involved with the suit videotaped the entire event.

The lawsuit claims the assembly for seniors included a video featuring a number of subjects: A pornography addict, a gay man, a promiscuous woman, drug addicts and people suffering from depression. The one factor that linked all of them was that they'd found hope in God. When the video concluded, the lawsuit claims the school staff applauded, and a representative from the church came forward to tell the students that they, too, could find solutions to their problems by turning to Christianity

Mississippi High School Lawsuit: Students Allegedly Forced To Attend 'Lectures' On Being 'Open' To Jesus

Seriously, why are some Christians so insistent on shoving religion on people in publicly owned spaces? If you want your kids to learn this stuff you have sunday school or you could send your kid to a private religious school.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by Spartanguy

Seriously, why are some Christians so insistent on shoving religion on people in publicly owned spaces? If you want your kids to learn this stuff you have sunday school or you could send your kid to a private religious school.

Why don't you show us the videotape that a student claimed was filmed by a person not affilliated with the suit?

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Why don't you show us the videotape that a student claimed was filmed by a person not affilliated with the suit?

I read that too and wondered why the video wasn't provided.


"Our students have the freedom to organize student-led and planned meetings and the assembly in question was student led and organized. The meetings were not mandatory."


This seems like a more plausible explanation than the one the given by the American Humanist Association.