{"id":4929,"date":"2021-01-16T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:03:14","slug":"atheists-bully-school-board-to-ban-christian-toy-drive-no-christmas-likely-for-thousands-of-kids-say-rev-franklin-grahams-christmas-child-project-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2021\/01\/16\/atheists-bully-school-board-to-ban-christian-toy-drive-no-christmas-likely-for-thousands-of-kids-say-rev-franklin-grahams-christmas-child-project-is-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Bully School Board to Ban Christian Toy Drive!!   No Christmas likely for Thousands of Kids!!!  Say Rev Franklin Graham\u2019s \u201cChristmas Child\u201d Project is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! Kansas School Board Surrenders without firing a shot!!!   Report, opinion and arguendo by Robert A. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: Warning!! If you are on blood pressure medication, please take your meds before you read this article.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Folks, by now most of you have read my articles, saw it on TV news or heard about the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatening the NEW School Board Majority about plans to put up the Ten Commandments. Most, including me, believe the Shelby Star, Poodle Glover, Coleman Hunt, Shearra Miller, Richard Hooker, Roger Harris, the Lazy Rogue and renegade petition writing teachers and others have hijacked and misused Dena Green\u2019s comments for their own purposes. Which is to discredit the NEW School Board Majority. But at the cost of selling their souls to the Devil. If you scroll back an article or two, you can read the documents the FFRF sent to the School Board\u2019s soon to be gone high dollar Raleigh Lawyers with their big-time bullying tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have discovered that these Devil worshipping FFRF nitwits use their bullying tactics as their standard MO. And, it often works. Most public- school boards, like the OLD Cleveland County School Board, are full of wasteful spending. nepotism and their own evil and sinful ways that they give up without firing a shot at their devil worshipping liberal partners in crimes against morality and the Christian basis of our country. Just like the OLD CCS School Board surrendered a few months ago in the Jane Doe vs. Cleveland County School Board regarding a male student at Kings Mountain High School who wanted to use the girls rest room. The CCS School Board, against North Carolina law, settled the case when they agreed to allow the boy to use the girl\u2019s restroom. Only one citizen in Cleveland County attended that Court Hearing. Robert A. Williams. I sat there in Court and watched the lawyer who sued Sheriff Alan Norman settle the case without speaking one word on behalf of the citizens of Cleveland County. Attorney Colin Shive agreed to settle the case with the ACLU lawyer and the Charlotte Judge signed the order. All whispers t the bench. Not a public word spoken.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I find a School Board in Platte, Kansas has withdrawn their support for Rev. Franklin Graham\u2019s (Rev. Billy Graham\u2019s son) Operation Christmas Child toy program without firing a shot against FFRF\u2019s threats of a lawsuit. Thousands of children likely went without Christmas. Rev. Graham was on a Fox News program made the statement: \u201cI don\u2019t think this country will ever come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I don\u2019t plan to come together with the atheists and devil worshipers who will not come together with you unless you adopt THEIR baby killing, Bible Burning, queer loving ways and a Socialist\/Communist agenda. Why should I? Or YOU?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/graham-reacts-to-school-pulling-out-of-operation-christmas-child.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">But, hey! Here is the story straight from the Source.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Graham reacts after school pulls out of Operation Christmas Child: &#8216;I don&#8217;t think our country will ever come together&#8217;<br \/>\n<strong>By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n Rev. Franklin Graham appears on Fox News&#8217; &#8216;The Ingraham Angle,&#8217; Nov. 20, 2020.YouTube\/Fox News<br \/>\nThe Rev. Franklin Graham reacted to a Kansas middle school\u2019s decision to sever ties with his charity project, Operation Christmas Child, and expressed doubt that \u201cour country will ever come together.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t solicit necessarily from schools,\u201d Graham, president of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Ingraham Angle\u201d Friday. \u201cAnybody can participate and what this is, this is just children there at the school that did this on their own and got their school involved.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation had sent a complaint letter dated Nov. 3, to Superintendent Tony Helfrich, urging the district to take &#8220;immediate action to cease promoting and endorsing Christianity in its schools.&#8221; FFRF specifically cited Liberty Middle School, based in Pratt, Kansas, where morning announcements often include references to Jesus and Operation Christmas Child is promoted.<br \/>\nAfter contending that the Samaritan\u2019s Purse website states that \u201cthe purpose of the shoe boxes is to attract children in the developing world to convert to Christianity,\u201d FFRF Staff Attorney Christopher Line argued that \u201corganizing a donation drive that for all intents and purposes employs school staff and resources to convert people to Christianity violates constitutional principles.\u201d<br \/>\nIn response, Helfrich sent a letter to FFRF explaining that the district was discontinuing the collaboration with Operation Christmas Child \u201cupon learning that its mission is more sectarian in nature than we realized.\u201d<br \/>\nThough the school has pulled out of participating in the shoebox gift donations, Graham encouraged students at Liberty Middle School to send gifts directly to the ministry instead.<br \/>\n\u201cI want every child that gets a box to know that God loves them and that he cares for them,\u201d Graham said. \u201cWe don\u2019t hide the fact that we\u2019re Christians. \u2026 It\u2019s on our website, we\u2019re very upfront about our \u2026 position and our faith.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added that \u201cif we would just turn from our sins, that God would forgive our sins and heal our sins.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham to respond to Pastor John MacArthur&#8217;s recent comments that \u201cAmerica\u2019s in a moral free fall,\u201d Graham responded: \u201cI do share his concerns and I think we are in a moral free fall in this country.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to Graham, \u201cthe only hope for our country, I believe, is God. \u2026 For that to happen is we\u2019ve got to come to Him in repentance, turning from our sins and putting our faith and trust in His son, Jesus Christ. And I think if we do that, then God will hear our prayers and He\u2019ll heal this country.\u201d<br \/>\nAddressing the question of what it will take to \u201cbring this country together,\u201d Graham argued: \u201cI don\u2019t think our country will ever come together. I think we\u2019re so divided now and it\u2019s only going to get worse and the hatred that we see from many \u2026 in the public square toward Christians is incredible.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not going to back down. I\u2019m just going to keep telling people that God loves them and He cares for them and Christ died for their sins.\u201d<br \/>\nThis is not the first instance of an atheist group targeting public schools for their collaboration with Operation Christmas Child. In 2013, the American Humanist Association letters to public schools in West Columbia, South Carolina, and Douglas County, Colorado, threatening them with legal action if they did not terminate their relationships with the charitable organization.<br \/>\nBoth schools complied with the AHA\u2019s demands, citing a desire to avoid the legal fees and media attention that would accompany a lawsuit by the atheist group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: If you want to see how the parents of the children who were ordered out of the Operation Christmas Child thought, click on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/second-school-drops-out-of-operation-christmas-child-following-atheist-lawsuit-parents-vow-to-raise-money-on-their-own.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> this link<\/a>. Hopefully the NEW School Board Majority at CCS will take heed. Christians in Cleveland County do not intend to put up with bullying from a bunch of Devil Worshipping, Bible Banning nitwits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also note that if you pull up the original article copied above; you will find a number of hyperlinks with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Warning!! If you are on blood pressure medication, please take your meds before you read this article. 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