“CRAZY” ABOUT JESUS School Orders Boy to Be “Evaluated” for Drawing of Christ? (Alan Reinach is in Pacific Time)
According to the initial news report, based on the accounts of a father of an eight-year-old student at Maxham Elementary School in Taunton, Massachusetts, when his son drew a picture of Jesus on the cross for an assignment about Christmas, the school responded by sending the boy home and ordering him to undergo a psychological evaluation. The school allegedly “feared his artwork might be exposing violent tendencies.”
Just a couple days later, a psychiatrist has said there was nothing wrong with the boy, while the school has outwardly refuted the story. The superintendent, Julie Hackett, has gone on record denying there was a suspension, a Christmas assignment or that the Jesus drawing was the drawing in question.
Regardless of which account is true, Attorney Alan Reinach, President of the North American Religious Liberty Association–West, says it doesn’t take away from the fact that more of these types of discriminatory, anti-Christian actions are flaring up in schools across the country.
Based on the many cases he either follows or represents, Reinach says there is an indisputable trend of secularists with views about separation of church and state overstepping their bounds and crossing into blatant violations of 1st Amendment rights.
Simultaneous with this standoff in Massachusetts is a story in a New Jersey elementary school where a third-grade girl was forbidden by her teacher from reading the Bible during quiet time. The teacher and the principal both said it was “inappropriate” material that should stay home.
Where is this trend line really going? How can this be happening in a nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, on its way to becoming the leader of the free world? What kind of rights do parents of these students really have and how can they exercise them?
Call Special Guests today for an interview with an exceptional authority on this infuriatingly “crazy” subject right now, Alan Reinach.
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ALAN J. REINACH, ESQ.
Alan serves as the Director of the Church State Council and President of the North American Religious Liberty Association–West. He is an attorney and a Seventh-day Adventist minister. A graduate of the State University of New York, in New Paltz, with special honors in history, in 1984, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law, in 1987.
Reinach represents employees who have suffered religious discrimination, and has filed briefs in religious liberty cases in state and Federal courts, and in the California and United States Supreme Court.
When he’s not in court, Alan maintains an extensive speaking schedule, hosts the weekly radio program, Freedom’s Ring, and appears regularly on radio interviews throughout the nation. He also regularly publishes articles on religious freedom. Alan is a passionate advocate of liberty of conscience.
As a young man coming of age in the 70s, he struggled to know God, examining the religious teachings of various traditions. He saw friends taken captive to religious cults, and was wary of getting into something that he couldn’t get out of. God’s gracious commitment to respecting human freedom made it possible for him to experience Christian conversion without fear of being trapped or conned. He has dedicated his life to serving God, and to championing an understanding of God’s character – i.e., that a loving God gives freedom, and does not coerce the conscience.