Poor persecuted babies...! Weep for them!!! ====== This myth involved a student named Raymond Raines and it has been around since 1994 when Newt Gingrich and various Religious Right leaders frist started making Raymonds sorry tale the centerpiece of their campaign to pass a constitutional amendment protecting the right to expressions of faith ... despite the fact that it wasnt true: The St. Louis case concerned 10-year-old Raymond Raines who, his mother said, was given detention because he sought to pray over his lunch. When lawyers for the Rutherford Institute heard about the case, they filed a lawsuit against the principal and issued a press release denouncing the school system. I know it sounds bizarre, but we have substantial evidence to believe it happened, said Timothy Belz, the St. Louis lawyer working with the Rutherford Institute. On NBC-TVs Meet the Press, Gingrich described the situation as a real case about a real child. Should it be possible for the government to punish you if you say grace over your lunch? Thats what we used to think of Russian behavior when they were the Soviet Union. But school officials said the incident never happened. Rather, they said, Raymond was disciplined for fighting in the cafeteria. I can tell you he was not reprimanded for praying, said Kenneth Brostron, the schools lawyer. Do you think it makes sense that the teachers would look around the cafeteria and target the one student who was praying quietly at his seat? So despite the fact that this incident took place nearly twenty years ago - and never actually happened - David Barton is still citing it today as proof that Christianity is under attack in America. - See more at: rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-jon-stewart-and-myth-raymond-raines#sthash.hTJ2uQBg.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:03:31 +0000
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