Good grief: New Hampshire school book portrays Jesus as a 'wine-guzzling vagrant'

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Good grief: New Hampshire school book portrays Jesus as a 'wine-guzzling vagrant': "Emblematic of the state of our government-run education system:

From the HuffPo: NH Parents Object To Book That Calls Jesus 'Vagrant'

A New Hampshire couple told a school board Monday that their son's civil rights were violated when he was assigned a book that refers Jesus Christ as a 'wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.'

The 2001 book, 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,' documents author Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to live on minimum wage as she critiques the nation's economic system.

Aimee and Dennis Taylor complained about the book's foul language, descriptions of drug use and characterization of Christianity when it was assigned to their son's personal finance class at Bedford High School in the fall and later pulled him out of school at his request. On Monday, they asked the school board to remove the book from the curriculum and create a committee of parents to review and rate all other books used in the school, but the board held off on making a decision until it hears from its curriculum committee next month.

Dennis Taylor said school officials were either utterly careless in choosing the book or were 'intentionally agreeing with Ehrenreich and taking the position that Jesus was a drunken bum.'

'The administration and the people with the master's degrees taking care of our children clearly in this case seemed to lack common sense, common decency and with regard to civil rights, an understanding of common law,' he said.

He noted that had the book been turned into a movie, his son would be too young to see it given the obscenities. And both he and his wife said the passages about Jesus were an attack on their son's faith.

Here's a key passage from the book itself:

'Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say.'

What course is the book used for? Personal finance. In other indoctrination news: New bill requires gay history in textbooks to fight bullying

Openly gay state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill today that would require public school materials to include the historical contributions of gay people as a way to fight bullying.

Leno's Senate Bill 48 is similar to a proposal that was approved by the Legislature in 2006 but vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

'Most textbooks don't include any historical information about the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) movement, which has great significance to both California and U.S. history,' Leno said in a press release. Leno was recently named to prominent leadership as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

Leno added: 'Our collective silence on this issue perpetuates negative stereotypes of LGBT people and leads to increased bullying of young people.'

So basically, the public education system is being flipped by Marxists to make Jesus look bad, and for gays to look good. When public education began, it used to be that federal dollars were used to print Bibles for all schools:

We need those days back as socialists are succeeding in unmooring this country from it's Christian roots.

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