{"id":5156,"date":"2012-03-15T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T22:03:39","slug":"religious-message-delivered-to-iowa-public-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/religious-message-delivered-to-iowa-public-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Message Delivered to Iowa Public School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/parenting\/rock-group-8220-junkyard-prophet-8221-delivers-controversial-202200759.html\">song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>High school students in Dunkerton, Iowa were expecting an assembly about bullying and making good choices. What they got instead was the Christian rap\/hard rock band called Junkyard Prophet delivering an anti-gay and anti-abortion rant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the band played, they broke the students up into gender-based groups and then lectured them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They told my daughter, the girls, that they were going to have mud on their wedding dresses if they weren&#8217;t virgins,&#8221; said Jennifer Littlefield, whose 16-year-old daughter, Alivia called her in tears after the event. Reportedly, one of the band members led the girls in a chant pledging purity and encouraged them to be submissive to their husbands after marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of the presentation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGrV4VCx22g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And another:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jazqMOC_N3s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you two things about this: 1) It is an outrage; and 2) This kind of thing happens in high schools across the country on a regular basis; it is not that frequent, but it happens.  <\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: Gwenn Smith Olson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the form of song. High school students in Dunkerton, Iowa were expecting an assembly about bullying and making good choices. What they got instead was the Christian rap\/hard rock band called Junkyard Prophet delivering an anti-gay and anti-abortion rant. After the band played, they broke the students up into gender-based groups and then lectured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/religious-message-delivered-to-iowa-public-school-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Religious Message Delivered to Iowa Public School Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[183],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1la","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}