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originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: halfpint0701
that is just plain weird...since when has being polite turned into a religious stigma....what else do you say to someone when they sneeze ?
A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: halfpint0701
that is just plain weird...since when has being polite turned into a religious stigma....what else do you say to someone when they sneeze ?
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: halfpint0701
that is just plain weird...since when has being polite turned into a religious stigma....what else do you say to someone when they sneeze ?
When Dyer County High School senior Kendra Turner said bless you to her classmate, she says her teacher told her that was for church.
“She said that we’re not going to have godly speaking in her class and that’s when I said we have a constitutional right[,” said Turner
originally posted by: BasementWarriorKryptonite
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: halfpint0701
that is just plain weird...since when has being polite turned into a religious stigma....what else do you say to someone when they sneeze ?
Well, we could just say nothing and ignore it - but it's ingrained in most of us as tradition. It seems impolite not to say it and I'm not a religious person. Can't we just have a few traditions left over from the old days?
I'd be willing to bet if it was a non-judeo-christian tradition, whoever suspended the kid would be too busy trembling in their shoes to even think to suspend.
This is the second thread today where I'm saying, "I'm not religious, but...". What on earth has it comes to when the likes of me is defending our religious heritage?
"She told me that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class," Turner said. "I said, 'well my pastor told me it's my constitutional right.'"
In a letter shared with WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News by the Turners, allegedly from her teacher, she calls "bless you" and other expressions distract and interrupts smooth flow."
"Ridiculous," Pastor Becky Winegardner said. "It's just something I really don't think warrants in-school suspension."
Pastor Winegardner is the Turners pastor and a former high school principal. She said other students had come to her concerned about the teacher's rules. She said she told them to do the right thing.
"I am hoping to try and encourage my students to stand-up." Pastor Winegardner said. "To stand up for who they are. But I want to see it done in the proper place. During break time and free time in the classroom."