Violence is Not the Answer
After spending the weekend (here and here) posting about the threats to a Florida pastor over his sensible removal of the flag from the sanctuary, Charles Haynes' new column seems an appropriate follow-up. Here, too, the topic is a resort to threats of violence. Here's how it starts:
At a charter school in Minnesota, what should have been a “call the lawyers” dispute about religion in the classroom has escalated into a “call the FBI” imbroglio involving death threats against school officials.Allegations of school-sponsored prayer don’t ordinarily provoke threats of violence. But Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., is no ordinary public school.