“In the Year of our Lord” Censored
When high school seniors in New Haven, CT, receive their diplomas this week, they will not be graduating “in the year of our Lord.” The school district has removed the traditional phrase from high school diplomas after someone complained.
“It’s a religious thing,” Superintendent Reginald Mayo told the New Haven Register. “I’m surprised it took this long for someone to notice it. We certainly don’t want to offend anyone.”
“This is political correctness gone mad,” said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. “What this New Haven school is doing is more than a detour from our moorings, it is unconscionable; attempts to scrub clean any reference to our founding is a disservice to the students and their community.”
Last year, former alderwoman Ina Silverman filed a complaint about “in the year of our Lord. Her daughter was a student at Wilbur Cross High School. According to the newspaper, she took her concerns to the mayor who then asked the superintendent to censor the words.
Mayo told the newspaper it was a small change – but it was a necessary change.
Mayo told the newspaper it was a small change – but it was a necessary change. The American Humanist Association heralded the decision.
“It removes the bias toward Christianity and puts all New Haven students on an equal plain without religious bias,” Bob Ritter, a staff lawyer with the American Humanist Association, told FOX News Radio.
“The fact of the matter is all New Haven students deserve a diploma which is religiously neutral,” Ritter said. “It favors no religion over another.”
But some Christians disagree with that assessment. Local resident Betsy Claro called the decision “hideous.”
“I do believe that it’s a travesty to keep removing the Lord’s name,” the mother of three told FOX News Radio. “I believe that our nation was founded on the principles of belief in God and our Founding Fathers made sure it was incorporated into every document that they produced.”
It’s not the first time the phrase has generated controversy. Earlier this year, a Muslim student at Trinity University in San Antonio, petitioned to have the words removed from diplomas. The university, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of America, decided to keep “in the year of our Lord.”
Sharia Comes to Michigan
Under Sharia law, it is forbidden to proselytize to Muslims, and no Muslim can leave the faith. Dearborn, Michigan, is home to a substantial Muslim population, and there is strong evidence that local authorities now enforce sharia in preference to the Constitution of the United States. Thus this Associated Press story about the arrest of four Christian missionaries that took place on Friday:
Police in the heavily Arab Detroit suburb of Dearborn say they arrested four Christian missionaries for disorderly conduct at an Arab cultural festival.
Police Chief Ron Haddad says his department made the arrests Friday. The four are free on bond.
Here is video of the arrest. The "disorderly conduct" consisted of handing out copies of the Gospel of John outside the festival. Note the police demand that one of the group stop filming the arrest:
Video: Dearborn Police: Defending Islam Against the Co...
Many people seem to believe that concerns about creeping sharia are exaggerated or misplaced. This incident demonstrates, I think, the contrary.
Please support Oklahoma in their fight against Sharia Law and then get it on the ballot in your state before it is too late.
Oklahoma Employs 'Bush Doctrine' Against Sharia Law
Oklahoma Lawmakers Seek Voter Backing to Ban Shariah From Courts
Oklahoma lawmakers are asking voters to weigh in on a proposal that would ban local courts from considering Shariah or other international law in their rulings.
The unusual measure calling for an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution was approved in late May by the state Senate, sending the issue to voters in the fall in the form of a ballot question.
Though the question's supporters have not pointed to any specific outbreak of Shariah, or Islamic law, being considered in the U.S. judicial system, they describe it as an encroaching threat. State Rep. Rex Duncan, author of the measure, has called the ballot question a "preemptive strike" against Shariah coming to his state.
Duncan said in a statement after the vote that he hopes other states will soon follow Oklahoma's lead.
"Judges in other states and on the federal bench have increasingly turned to citing international law in their court decisions, something I and others feel is grossly inappropriate in a sovereign state such
as our own," he said.
In an interview with The Edmond Sun, Duncan said the courts' willingness in Britain to consider Shariah has become "a cancer upon the survivability of the U.K." He said the ballot question "will constitute a preemptive strike against Shariah Law coming to Oklahoma."
The amendment would require courts to adhere to the laws of the U.S. and state constitutions, as well as federal and state statutes. It would prohibit the courts from considering "the legal precepts of other nations or cultures," including Shariah.
This is the same reason people the small Nebraska Town passed a law restricting illegals. You can't wait until the problem is overwhelming or beyond control.
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