By: John Amato on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 4:54 AM - PDT
Religious persecution masquerading as hatred against the ACLU. Jesus General finds this heartbreaking story about a Jewish family that is forced to move out of town because…they are Jewish.
A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board’s opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him 'take your yarmulke off!' His statement, read by Samantha, confided 'I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy.'
…A former board member suggested that Mona Dobrich might "disappear" like Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the atheist whose Supreme Court case resulted in ending organized school prayer. She disappeared in 1995 and her dismembered body was found six years later.The crowd booed an ACLU speaker and told her to "go back up north."
In the days after the meeting the community poured venom on the Dobriches. Callers to the local radio station said the family they should convert or leave the area. Someone called them and said the Ku Klux Klan was nearby.
Read JC’s email exchange with Nedd Kareiva who is pretty proud of himself. . ."
Ok, everyone, now pay attention: unless the Mason-Dixon has been moved since I last checked, Delaware is not part of the South, and I do believe it voted blue in the last election, so how did this happen? Maybe it does prove a point that I've been harping on constantly-- they're (and you know who "they" are) not all in the South.
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"...unless the Mason-Dixon has been moved since I last checked, Delaware is not part of the South, and I do believe it voted blue in the last election, so how did this happen?"
I have been following and writing about this case and I remember reading that northern Delaware is more cosmopolitan and tolerant; southern Delaware, where this occurred, is much less tolerant in such matters. Southern Delaware is apparently closer to places like Virginia or the Carolinas when it comes to things like this.
I can't personally vouch for this, though.
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