Absofuckinglutely Amazing

I don't normally blog the same things, as Atrios, because I figure most people who are kind enough to visit this blog come here from Eschaton, but I'm going to make an exception, today. Atrios has a link to the ever-snarky Jesus' General, who links to a truly disturbing story about some xians who've managed to run a Jewish family out of town (that's right, you heard me, and yes, this is 2006, thanks for asking). As he reports, "A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit.

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On the evening in August 2004 when the board was to announce its new policy, hundreds of people turned out for the meeting. The Dobrich family and Jane Doe felt intimidated and asked a state trooper to escort them.

The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board's opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him 'take your yarmulke off!' His statement, read by Samantha, confided 'I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy.'

...A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might 'disappear' like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later.

The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to 'go back up north.'

In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby."

And, as you can see from the post, the creep who printed the family's name is happy about the results!

I'm not even going to bother pointing out that this behavior sounds remarkably unlike anything that the Jesus of Nazareth I grew up reading about would want done in his name. This is how xians act every chance they get and it's how they've acted from the Crusades to the Burning Times to today.

What I am going to point out is that if they ran a Jewish family out of town and yelled at a little boy to take off his yarmulke, you can just imagine what they'd do to a Wiccan family. The theocratic states of America are really beginning to piss me off.