The following comes from a Sept. 23 story on Fox News,
It’s hard to imagine that any school would have a problem with a book about a Christian family that helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
But Springs Charter Schools in Temecula, Calif., not only had a problem with The Hiding Place, they also took issue with any other book that was written by a Christian author or included a Christian message.
“We do not purchase sectarian educational materials and do not allow sectarian materials on our state-authorized lending shelves,” Superintendent Kathleen Hermsmeyer wrote in a letter to attorneys at the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI).
Why would a public charter school take issue with books written by Christians? Pacific Justice Institute is representing a parent who discovered what they called a “Christian purging” of the charter school’s library.
Pacific Justice Institute is representing a parent who discovered what they called a “Christian purging” of the charter school’s library.
“She was told by one of the library attendants that the library has been instructed to remove all books with a Christian message, authored by Christians, or published by a Christian publishing company,” read a letter PJI sent to the public charter school. “The attendant advised that the library would no longer be carrying those books. Indeed, our client was told that the library was giving those books away, and she actually took some.”
Among the books deemed inappropriate, the PJI said, was The Hiding Place the biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch Christian who was imprisoned by the Germans for helping Jews escape the Holocaust….
I figured Superintendent Hermsmeyer would be more than willing to set the record straight and explain the book purging. It seems I figured wrong. I gave her 24 hours to return my calls, and as of this writing, she has not done so.
But she did reply to the letter she received from Pacific Justice Institute. And what she told them was a bit alarming.
“We are a public school, and as such, we are barred by law from purchasing sectarian curriculum materials with state funds,” she wrote. “We only keep on our shelves the books that we are authorized to purchase with public funds….”
To read the original story, click here.
Pander or Perish – the ‘gospel’ of the Gaystapo.
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid – Because its the ‘Tolerant’ thing to do, or else:
Consider – Were it not for the ceaseless barrage of radical homosex propaganda pushed by ‘our’ bought and paid for ‘free press’…
– And the Heavy Censorship (like the burial of ‘news’ about the Larry Brinkin Racist Toddler Rape-Porn Ring run out of the in-human=rights commission in Frisco – SEE https://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/san-francisco-s-gay-icon-larry-brinkin-guilty-felony-child-porn _)
– Behind it, there would never have been the election of ‘Down Low’ Soetoro or Eric Holder to trash the Law and Radical Homosex appointees to the USSC to Uphold it:
SEE
“Does media deserve the credit for ‘gay marriage’ gains?
With a new poll showing the dwindling support for same-gender “marriage,” one conservative wonders what the numbers would be like if the media were more balanced on the subject.
https://onenewsnow.com/culture/2014/09/25/does-media-deserve-the-credit-for-gay-marriage-gains?
Well said Michael McDermott! Don’t forget too that the “American people” voted in this commie regime in Washington-TWICE! This has all come about because the Church has been neutralized my Masonic infiltration. Just witness the current madness in Rome. As the Church goes, so goes the world…Out Lady of Fatima pray for us.
The dems won so handily John, that they got over a 100% of the vote in some areas. Really pretty amazing when you consider it, no? Wink wink
John D.
It is more than likely that the “American people” did NOT elect this commie regime TWICE!
It is also true that the Boehner, McConnell click ran from the fight when the people looked to them to do so! Both men are “Church of Nice” members!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
JD is correct in observing the ‘people’ have violated the ‘fool me once’ rule and shame on them for buying the same lies twice, but then again…
– Our bought and paid for ‘free press’ has admitted what most already know, that they are Part of the ObamAcorn Propaganda Machine, and simply following orders from their own ‘Mess-I-Ya’ in order to properly indoctrinate the young in to the common core of the age of Abomination.
North Korea does it by encouraging worship of the allegedly communist ‘Kim Dynasty’, and in post weimar amerika we have POTUS ‘Down Low’ Soetoro to be our own ‘Dear Leader’:
SEE
White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports
“Journalists who cover the White House say Obama’s press aides have demanded — and received — changes in press-pool reports before the reports have been disseminated to other journalists.
They say the White House has used its unusual role as the distributor of the reports as leverage to steer coverage in a more favorable direction…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/reporters-say-white-house-sometimes-demands-changes-to-press-pool-reports/2014/09/23
Shouldn’t parents be looking into this Michael? If they’re going to rid libraries of Christian books, then atheists like J.D Salinger and Phillip Roth, & company should all be banned,as well! Taken to a higher level, all books should be banned because all books are going to offend someone’s sensibilities , right? I definitely find all the Harry Potter books utterly repellent. Librarians could then be free to work with the NSA to spy on students and begin dossiers on everyone at an earlier age. Why bother teaching children at all…skip the whole education process and put them to work and mold them into consumer/ gatherers of the state and make life really easy…from birth to death, no God, no beauty, no mystery. The Dems would finally “win” all.
Sounds like the same mentality that led to book burning in Germany. What is next? Adolf.
JP mentions “book burning in Germany” in the 1930s, done by the Homosex Terrorist ‘SA’ (Storm Troopers) under the notoriously open and proud homo-anal ephebophile Ernst Rohm – who beat the nation in to submission, opened Dachau Concentration Camp for All Enemies of the State & destroyed the boy scouts…
– Ordering all boys in to the ‘hitler youth’, from which they picked boys for ephebophile rape, often getting them drugged or drunk, and often taking pictures of the process to blackmail the families.
The Original ‘Book Burning’ is documented quite thoroughly in the book “The Pink Swastika”. It was not a library but rather the Records of a ‘homo-sexual research institute’ with files on most of the Homo-Nazi Leadership and its street thugs – who modeled themselves after Spartan ‘ideals’ of ephebophilia – when they weren’t parading in drag.
No Kidding, Rohm’s Foreign ‘Guest’ had a bar encounter with a male drag queen, who talked Rohm up about last nights party. After he left the guest asked where Rohm knew the prostitute – Rohm replied that “I am Not His Client, I am His Commanding Officer; He is one of My Storm Troopers”
Sooo – the ‘lesson’ – the First Documents the Homo-Nazi Leadershp burned where Their Own Records (including illegal behaviors / rape & other police records),
and later on they turned the national bonfire rally into an educational sport – Kind of like the ‘public education’ system in Academentia today, only less ideologically ruthless.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/14c/hrc-attacks-on-pro-family/index.html
History repeats itself.
Even “Krystalnacht” is happening again. They are trying to drive Christians out of the marketplace under the banner of “civil rights.”
Once they achieve their aims, I wonder if they will like what they have left?
Just wondering…are there any books on Mohammed? Islam? World religions?
Why just pose the question here:
Write to the School and send copies of the Letter to the media…radio, TV, newspapers, etc.
Do no just sit there and leave to someone else…YOU ARE THE SOMEONE ELSE.
Do it now!
Thank you!
I talked to the secretary today, of the Pacific Justice Institute. The are compiling an email list, of people who support this case. I added my email address, to their list. Wish I could volunteer, as she does, for these kinds of causes! I am investigating possibilities! What is also badly needed– is to tear down all the American colleges and universities– both secular and church-run institutions– and mandate a return to their Judeo-Christian educational foundations! In all of our American colleges and universities– the Teacher Preparation programs in the Schools of Education, are infested by poorly-educated, highly immoral “liberal misfits,” who are destroying our country!
I thought “latino Catholicos” were the “future of the Church” in this country. If they can’t save California witht he large population they have there, looks bleak doesn’t it ?
Every Catholic home should have or start a small library.
It MUST include: a Catholic Bible,
and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” (of 1997, dark green cover).
Recommendations could be:
‘Manual of Indulgences’ (see USCCB web site);
and other books which inspire us to become Saints.
And ‘Nazoreans’ Beware – worldwide, for the ‘N’ Word on your door may bring someone calling, for a tax or a mauling:
SEE
100 Christians, Including Children, Arrested During Major House Church Raid in China
9/23/14 https://www.christianpost.com/news/100-christians-including-children-arrested-during-major-house-church-raid-in-china-126854/
Over 100 Christians, including children, were arrested during a major house church raid on Sunday in Foshan city in China’s Guangdong Province. Close to 200 police officers stormed in during the service, eyewitnesses said, believed to be part of a large-scale crackdown on Christians in the country.
“We don’t know exactly why they raided our church,” a local believer told watchdog group International Christian Concern, which has been keeping track of the rising tide of persecution in China. “The government does not want us to get together and worship as a church.”
Worshipers said that the church was raided without any warning, and that police only left behind a notice stating that people were detained for an “illegal gathering.” More than 30 parishioners reportedly still remain in custody.
Demons working overtime.
I have to say, I know people at this school and this article is very one-sided. The school has to follow the law and that goes for a whole category of books and that is applied to donated books whether they are Christian, Muslim or any other faith. If people don’t like the laws in California then change the laws. Why go after this small school – go after the lawmakers in Sacramento. Knowing the situation I’m surprised that someone who refuses to give their name will come forward with this sort of accusation when they must know it’s not a school policy, it’s state law.
Carol, quite frankly, I think it depends on the area and who is running a particular school. Of course when the state comes in and sets rules, it can outlaw certain books if the parents do not demand that they be in the schools. Since many Christian parents are pulling their children out of public schools, there may no longer be a great demand for them. It is a Catch Twenty- two.
Population Control via Selective Abortion – and the Age of Abomination.
When a Sitting Supreme Court Justice discusses: “…Populations we don’t want to have too many of.” Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Its the Tolerant thing to do, unless of course you are the one judging the fitness of others to live.
Does the language Sound Familiar anyone?
Ginsberg is probably as ignorant of history (like Homo-Nazi Germany) as the Law, but sure is Politically Correct .
SSADLY – any number of readers here could Also fall in to the category of those they whose numbers they want kept down – as opposed to on the Down Low, like POTUS Soetoro.
SEE:
(USSC Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Really Wants Poor People To Stop Having Babies
By Mollie Hemingway9/24/14
“It is a defining question for modern liberalism: Are these men and women “populations that we don’t want to have too many of” or are they citizens worthy of justice and capable of contribution?”
https://thefederalist.com/2014/09/24/ruth-bader-ginsburg-really-wants-poor-people-to-stop-having-babies/
Hey Anne T. I think people are getting upset about this without knowing all the facts. If I was upset about what my school was presenting to my kids I’d talk to the teacher and if need be others at the school about it before I ran out and got a lawyer who has PR people who will get it in the national press. Did this happen? We are told there was supposedly one conversation in some sort of storage place for the library. But we will never know if further conversations happened because the person won’t come forward. I just weary of people getting bent out of shape over headlines without understanding the whole story. It makes it harder to get support for things that are really wrong and alarming in the schools. Why do you think schools are on edge when what could have been an off handed comment can get blown way out of proportion and end up as national news. If you are sick of liberal bias in schools, talk to the teachers and work with the school and then look at what Sacramento is pushing on a lot of them.
A Peak behind the ‘happy’ peacock feathers:
Gay group marching in St. Patrick’s Parade promotes acceptance of gay lifestyle
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-group-marching-in-st.-patricks-parade-promotes-acceptance-of-gay-lifest
The organization, “OUT@NBCUniversal” has been billed as a group merely representing NBCUniversal employees with homosexual tendencies.
However, its Facebook and Twitter feeds indicate that the group is actively involved in movements and events that legitimize the homosexual lifestyle, including: “celebrating” Harvey Milk, a famously homosexual politician who biographers say enjoyed sexual relationships with underage boys;
advocating homosexual “marriage” and anti-Christian “non-discrimination” legislation; and participating in lurid “pride” parades.
The New ‘N’ Word
This is very bad news, particularly for the Homeless Christians – who are supposed to put an ‘N’ over their doors (which they no longer have) to signify “Nazorean” (as in Followers of Jesus of Nazareth – the Christ)…
– So they can be targeted to pay the ‘Head Tax’ (price of keeping said Head attached) and be subject to other sanctions for “People of the Book” (Bible) –
Who at least (unlike Academentia) aren’t ‘Infidels’ according to the ISIS code, which may or may not have anything to do with the Koran or Islam, but sure applies where they rule.
Baghdad Priest: ‘Christianity Could Be at an End Here’
(CNSNews.com) – The Rev. Andrew White, vicar of St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, said Tuesday that he believes Christianity may be at an end in Iraq.
“The future’s very bleak,” Father White said in an interview with CNSNews.com. “For the first time, I’ve had to consider the very real fact that Christianity could be at an end here.”
“We don’t know if it will survive,” he said by phone from Baghdad. “Nobody wants to stay here. Everybody wants to get out of here.”
…He added, however, that Christians in the northern section of the country – where the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been attacking Christian villages–“are literally homeless.
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/baghdad-priest-christianity-could-be-end-here