[Faith-talk] Daily Thought for Tuesday, May 20, 2014

[debby phillips via Faith-talk]

There have been cases where children have bowed to pray at school 
over their lunches in the cafeteria, and have been reprimanded.  
That's not right! I remember a friend of mine whose daughter 
wanted to write a paper on the life of Corie ten Boom, a 
Christian who hid Jews during World War Ii.  Her teacher let her 
know that if she wrote the paper using Corie ten Boom as her 
subject that her grade would be lowered.  That's not right, 
either.  This lady was very brave, suffered terribly because of 
what she did, (her sister and father died in the concentration 
camp), and the assignment was to write a paper about a person who 
had had an impact at a time of crisis, or something like that.

I bet if my friend had wanted to write about Endira Gandhi or 
someone like that, her grade wouldn't have been lowered.  This is 
extremely biased on the part of our culture in this country and 
it angers me.  It angers me that we have such a bias in our 
culture.  It shouldn't be like that.    Peace,    Debby