Franklin Graham [Billy’s son] announced to his employees that Samaritan’s Purse was closing at 2 p.m., and instructed the organization’s employees to “bring a snack and go to the school board meeting room and fill up all the seats.”
On the Watauga County Schools’ agenda was whether or not kids should be reading the smut novel House of Spirits in 10th-grade honors English.
What do I think? I could go either way. I was one of those kids who opted not to read smutty stuff and let the teacher grade me as she pleased. An F in Honors English could pass as a badge of honor, a secret code for Christians trying to hire Christians without disobeying equal-opportunity employment laws. The problem is when word doesn’t get out in time, and before the youngster knows it, his/her/its mind is polluted for life.
Oh, wait. That was in the days of Rome, before we had such a thing as a free country that protected freedom of worship and conscience. My bad.
