Good-News Recruiting

One notes, in passing, that these are the people who [erroneously] believe that homosexuals recruit (evidently proven by the fact that we "cannnot reproduce"):

Good News Clubs are sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, a national group that seeks to convert young children to fundamentalist Christianity. At the weekly meetings, children are divided into groups of "saved" and "unsaved." "Unsaved" children, who may be as young as 5 or 6, are pressured weekly to make faith professions.

[Via TheocracyWatch.org (their story on The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party called 'Texas Republican Party Platform: "The Republican Party of Texas affirms the United States of America is a Christian Nation …" '), mentioning schools, then over to Americans United for Separation of Church and State and their 2001 article about the Supreme Court case involving after-school time for "Good-News Clubs".]
Oh, and by the way, the recruiters won:

A Supreme Court decision in 2001 upheld the right of Child Evangelism Fellowship to hold Good News Clubs after hours in public school buildings. The high court ruled 6-3 that religious clubs such as CEF, which had contact with 4.9 million children last year, couldn't be prevented from meeting after hours if other private groups also are allowed to gather.

Posted on March 27, 2005 at 15.20 by jns · Permalink
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