Reply to SSL Hours for Religious Activities and the First Amendment

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "SSL Hours for Religious Activities and the First Amendment"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids’ school encouraged all students yesterday to earn SSL hours by volunteering at the Freestate Justice Name Change Clinic for LGBTQIA Maryland residents. 
I guess that it’s not religious though so that’s ok???[/quote]

Read the FAQ - kids can earn SSL hours from religious organizations.[/quote]

Not true.  It is limited as to what they can earn SSL for.  [/quote]

Go read the FAQ, and then come back and tell me what part of my statement “kids can earn SSL hours from religious organizations” is not true. I’ll wait.[/quote]

lol.  I’ll wait.  You sound so confident! But you obviously have bias pop up you read otherwise you would have noticed that any activity that benefits the community as a whole can be approved for SSL. Just do a quick search on the Montgomery County volunteer website and you will see dozens of churches and religious organizations that have been approved to offer SSL.  You obviously don’t want to see what the state is trying to do with SSl and why specific activities won’t qualify.   You are obtuse, annoying, and probably live your life as a perpetual victim.  Not someone I would think would really understand why there is a separation of the two activities (religion, which is a personal choice, vs an actual community service to benefit all).  Even Jesus would understand this.  [/quote]

Except that lots of people have posted many ways people can get SSL hours that are very hard to define as “benefits the community as a whole” if you don’t think that serving as a teaching assistant at a religious Sunday school would also benefit the community as a whole.  You can only view things that way if you have a hostility towards religion, so religious education doesn’t add value but being a summer camp counselor or assistant at an amusement park does, and the government is supposed to treat religion neutrally, neither favoring it or disfavoring it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics