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In the interim, every church, every faith in Conway should descend on the school at lunch from the liturgical churches to the one that meets in the Sale Barn. New Life isn't the only church in town, hell, there is either a bank or a church on every corner in the whole town! Since 2/3rd are SBC (although not so-labelled), it is obviously they can't even agree on what they do believe. And you want them talking to kids? Don't be surprised at what the kids "learn" about religion.

Why not use the whole day on Sunday and Wednesday and your "family life centers" and do you "counseling" there and not in a PUBLIC school where everyone is not of your faith and may not agree with your interpretion of any part of your faith.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:51:07 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:58:48 -0600 Arkansas Times >Most folks don't really care about the issue, will think about that, and agree.

Most folks don't begin a movement either. Think of the football teams. Think of the fans in bleachers.
Players are few.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:13:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:15:33 -0600 Arkansas Times "Why are we giving on-campus access to outside groups *at all?*"

Most folks don't really care about the issue, will think about that, and agree.

Insult the people you need to persuade, however, and most of them will suddenly care quite a lot. Get ready for a legal fight to the death.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:44:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:56:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:35:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by righter]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:29:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
I know what you mean by that but, really, they seem to be pretty much the same color.

Also, I've started to memorize your chant: STOP YOU IGNORANT EXTREMEST CHRISTERS STOP! Normally, I'd say it wouldn't do the trick but you never know. Remember, how those Red, Commie Ruskies just threw in the towel when Reagan called them "the evil empire"? That's all it took. Wish we'd known that back in '47.
Posted by Olphart]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:52:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
Being polite to pushy crazy people will never work. People indoctrinating children into STUPID is a sin if there is such a thing. People FK'ing with our school systems should be accorded the same treatment we'd give to a naked pedophile in the lunch room.

These extremest Christers in Conway are merely Phelps of a different color and good Arkansans should form a human barricade to prevent the Christ-Talkers from getting within 3 blocks of an Arkansas public school. We've been nice and it hasn't worked. Smite some preacher balls and they might just back off and find a new hobby. (chapter 2, verse 11-13, book of DBI)
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:12:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mr. green]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:11:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
I moved to Conway about 10 years ago for no other reason than a good friend lived here and I had nothin' better to do that weekend. Then my good friend got a better job somewhere else and moved away. Well, OK, but thank God for Cabot I thought but forgettin' that I didn't believe in God anymore, but BY GOD, Cabot was still there with it's average IQ in the low 60's. But then Rapert got elected and then the churches merged with the school district...

So here I am a stranger in a strange land. If things get tough, I'll run down to one of our Wal-Mart Super Centers which are legion and buy me a couple of Glocks and a few AK-47's. Bubba, down the street will teach me how to shoot. He knows I'm agnostic but he says it's ok because his great grandpappy came from across the water himself. In short, I'll be all right 'cause I ain't completely gotten over the dumb part.

I got all on the defensive because of Norma's post:
"Why else would anybody live in Conway?"

Norma, just in the off chance you get stuck here for another 15 minutes, you might gravitate over towards Hendrix. I know they're Methodist, but believe me, they don't mean nothin' by it.
Posted by Olphart]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:41:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:29:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
This is the 47 per cent that Romney was talking about. This is the working poor. Just getting by is all they can manage. They don't have time to check into what their children are doing at school. If they did, they would lose hours, and thus income. They have entrusted their children to the schools, and it looks like in Conway the schools might have violated that trust. Do the parents know that their children are going to be subjected to religious indoctrination?
Do they know that they have the right to object?

I doubt if they do know, because most of the parents don't follow the news media to learn what is going on with their school. They have turned their children over to the schools, and the schools have turned them over to religious, rightwing fundamentalists. That is why we need organizations to protect those children, even if their parents won't.
Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:38:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why else would anybody live in Conway?

I was there once.

For fifteen minutes.

By invitation.

A mistake.

They had a plastic floral wreath on the door (this was June) with glitter on the lilies, a collection of Countess Something-or-Other dolls from QVC displayed on pedestals around the living room, and a large framed Thomas "Painter of Light" Kinkade print over the gas fireplace. Which was blazing. In June.

They were serving non-alcoholic punch and Oreos.

I half expected the host and hostess to break into an Amway presentation any moment.

I just couldn't, you understand.

I suddenly came down with sharp stomach pains that vanished miraculously the moment I hit the freeway back to The Rock.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:22:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:12:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Maybe you are too far removed from those adolescent years to remember the social pressures in the schools. Cliques in the Conway schools center around church affiliation. The school administration and the ministers don't have to lift a finger to "make them" attend, fear of being ostracized by other students is quite powerful.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:59:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Kids today.

Paranoid parents pressuring quisling administrators.

Allah bless Faulkner Co.
Posted by Bulkington]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:55:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:45:09 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Coolbreeze 101]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:14:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Silverback66]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:40:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:37:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Archaeopteryx]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:11:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Brad Bailey]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:10:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:26:56 -0600 Arkansas Times