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"William Baer told the Gilford, New Hampshire school board they had no right to require his 14-year-old daughter to read a pornographic novel, but when he spoke beyond the 2-minute limit, he was handcuffed, arrested, required to post $700 bond to get out of jail, and faces a potential $1,200 misdemeanor fine.
“The board apologizes for the discomfort of those impacted and for the failure of the school district to send home prior notice of assignment of the novel.” -- School statement issued AFTER the board meeting"
Gilford parents upset over book;
Mrs. Baer Comments:
PART 1 of 2- Gilford NH Parent arrested for violating
2-minute speaking rule at school board meeting:
PART 2 - Baer's Daughter addresses school board
after father arrested for violating 2-minute rule:
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A New Hampshire parent was arrested at a Monday night school board meeting after he voiced outrage his ninth grade daughter was assigned a book that contains a page detailing a graphic sexual encounter.
Gilford school officials claim the book, "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult, contains important themes about a school shooting. But some parents believe a scene described in the book is inappropriate for their children.
According to WCVB-TV, the book contains a graphic description of rough sex between two teenagers, which parents were unaware of until the book had already been distributed to their kids.
— Click here to read excerpts from the explicit passage —
"I was shocked when I read the passage and not much shocks me anymore," William Baer told EAG News. "My wife was stunned by the increasingly graphic nature of the sexual content of the scene and the imagery it evoked."
He went to the school board meeting to express his objections.
"It's absurd," he told the school board.
"Sir, would you please be respectful of the other people?" a school board member responded.
"Like you're respectful of my daughter, right? And my children?" he countered.
A police officer then arrived at the scene, instructing Baer to leave with him.
"You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?" the father said. "I guess you are going to have to arrest me."
Moments later, Baer was escorted outside and placed in handcuffs. According to WMUR-TV, he was charged with disorderly conduct because he did not immediately leave when asked by an officer.
His wife spoke to the media shortly after the incident.
"I fully understand how he feels. It really is a huge violation," Barbara Baer told WCVB.
"Why should those ideas be put in their mind? They can discuss this some other way. They don't need that kind of imagery," she added.
Widespread revulsion in response to a video in which a woman celebrates her abortion by putting the video on YouTube is very apropos given that its star, Emily Letts, is an actress whose most recent movie was a horror flick centered around the slaughter of children.
Ron Paul: Well, the whole thing is that Common Core is an example of how the federal government wants to take over, totally and completely, the educational system. They’ve been doing this for a long time, I mean for more than 50 years they’ve encroached upon control of local schools with the federal government getting involved back even in the 50s with the Department of Education – HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare] – being established.
Grandma Diane Bagdy
says Common Core based on UN Agenda 21;
British Pearson Co. ejected for un-American activities
during the Reagan administration in 1986;
but just awarded a Common Core contract:
Published on May 4, 2014
"Everybody's Grandma" Diane Bagdy says that Common Core is based on Chapter 36 of UN Agenda 21, global education initiative.--Poughkeepsie, New York. April 27, 2014
Heuertz is a “Founding Partner” of something called the Gravity Center and bills herself as a “Spiritual Director and Contemplative Retreat Guide. In other words, she’s a guru of CSM and instructor of its meditation in an altered form of consciousness called Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP).
You may also find it interesting to know that the other Founding Partner of the Gravity Center (GC) happens to be Heuertz’ husband Chris,while among founding board members we find apostate Roman Catholic priests, and major CSM gurus, Thomas Keating and Richard Rohr.
Taylor University Chapel - 4-9-14 - Phileena Heuertz;
Introduced also as a "Yoga Instructor":
Published on Apr 30, 2014
Phileena Heuertz, co-founder of Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism, speaks to students encouraging the practices of silence, solitude and stillness in our spiritual lives.
Phileena Heuertz, Founding Partner of Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism, reflections on cultivating a contemplative spirituality as a way to bring forward hope, peace, and freedom.
Drawing from the influence of teachers like Mother Teresa, Henri Nouwen (Contemplative Mystic), Jean Vanier (Rick Warren's Spriritual Director's Catholic Teacher), Thomas Keating (Catholic Priest & Mystic), and Richard Rohr (Franciscan Priest/Monk & Mystic), Phileena has discovered that "to the degree that we are healed, the world will be healed."
Phileena Heuertz, founding partner of Gravity: A Center for Contemplative Activism, sits down with Tony and Shane to talk about the importance of soul care in working for justice with the must vulnerable of the world's poor.
The crown jewel of CSM is a form of meditation in an altered state of consciousness, i.e. transcendental, lightly sprayed with Christian terminology that originated with apostate monks and monkettes circa third century.3 It’s known as contemplative prayer and sometimes as centering prayer.
Since the terms are interchangeable I list it as Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP). With all of this in mind, we really aren’t surprised then when we see CCP being taught and practiced today at the corrupt Catalyst Conference. The photo below was taken this afternoon at Catalyst in Dallas:
"in an exciting evening of music from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy. There will be readings from the books and we will enjoy music presented by regional professional musicians. With full orchestra we will explore how music tells us many stories and ultimately points us to the greatest story." NOTE: (SEE DAVID CLOUD'S REVIEW BELOW, WHEREIN HE POINTS OUT THAT TOLKIEN HIMSELF SAID THAT HIS BOOKS' FANTASIES ARE NOT CHRISTIAN ALLEGORIES)
From Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings "Tolkien included neither any explicit religion nor cult in his work. Rather the themes, moral philosophy, and cosmology of the Lord of the Rings reflect his Catholic worldview. In one of his letters Tolkien states, "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.""
The Lord of the Rings and the Catholic Faith:
Uploaded on Oct 27, 2011
J.R.R. Tolkien's books have a strong Catholic theme. This video shows examples of similarities between the Catholic faith and The Lord of the Rings.
DAVID CLOUD'S REVIEW OF "LORD OF THE RINGS" AT: http://www.wayoflife.org/database/tolkein.html; REPUBLISHED BELOW IN FULL UNEDITED FOR INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND RESEARCH PURPOSES: TOLKIEN AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS Republished October 3, 2005 (updated November 20, 2002, first published February 5, 2002) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) –
The first in the planned trilogy of The Lord of the Rings movies, Fellowship of the Ring, was released in December 19, 2001, and it made more than $260 million in the first few weeks. The second in the series, The Two Towers, is scheduled for release in December of this year, and the third, The Return of the King, is scheduled for release in December of 2003.
In spite of the PG-13 rating and occultic imagery, these movies and their literary counterparts are being praised by some professing Christians. The Lord of the Rings movies are based on the books by J.R. Tolkien. The movie edition of the trilogy was filmed at a cost of $300 million, but as we have seen, that amount was almost fully recovered a mere two months after the release of the first episode; and the second and third parts of the trilogy are yet to appear. The television rights to the trilogy were purchased by WB network for $160 million. Christianity Today ran a positive review of the books and the movie entitled “Lord of the Megaplex.” Focus on the Family praised Tolkien’s fantasies and promotes the book “Finding God in the Lord of the Rings” by Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware (Tyndale House). The glowing advertisement at the Focus on the Family web site calls fantasy a “vehicle for truth” and says: “In Finding God in the Lord of the Rings, Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware examine the ‘story behind’ the stories — the inspirational themes of hope, redemption and faith that Tolkien wove into his classic tales.” World magazine’s review is titled “Powerful Rings” and claims that the “movie version of Tolkien’s book speaks to today’s culture.” There is no warning in these reviews about Tolkien’s occultic imagery. HARMLESS FANTASY, WHOLESOME ALLEGORY? Is the Lord of the Rings harmless fantasy or perhaps even a wholesome Christian allegory? We think not. I read The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings in 1971 when I was in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. I was not saved at the time, and, in fact, I was very antagonistic to the Christian faith. Had the books contained even a hint of Bible truth, I can assure you that I would not have read them at that particular point in my life. I had forgotten many of the details of the books, so I refreshed my memory recently by going through them again. They are filled with occultic imagery, such as witches, goblins, warlocks, wizards, fairies, and such things; and though these are strongly and unconditionally condemned in the Bible, they are often portrayed as good and desirable by Tolkien. Many of the heroes of the Lord of the Rings, in fact, are wizards and witches. The books were published in inexpensive paperback editions in the late 1960s, and they became very popular with that generation of drug headed hippies. THE AUTHOR OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS The author of the Lord of the Rings, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was born in South Africa in 1892, but his family moved to Britain when he was about 3 years old. When Tolkien was eight years old, his mother converted to Roman Catholicism, and he remained a Catholic throughout his life. In his last interview, two years before his death, he unhesitatingly testified, “I’m a devout Roman Catholic.” J.R. Tolkien married his childhood sweetheart, Edith, and they had four children. He wrote them letters each year as if from Santa Claus, and a selection of these was published in 1976 as “The Father Christmas Letters.” One of Tolkien’s sons became a Catholic priest. Tolkien was an advisor for the translation of the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible.
As a professor of literature at Oxford University, Tolkien specialized in Old and Middle English and loved ancient pagan mythology. His first fantasy novel,The Hobbit, appeared in 1937, and The Lord of the Rings, in 1954-55. Several others were published later, some posthumously.
One of Tolkien’s drinking buddies was the famous C.S. Lewis. They and some other Oxford associates formed a group called the “Inklings” and met regularly at an Oxford pub to drink beer and regale about literary and other matters. Tolkien, in fact, is credited with influencing Lewis to become a Christian of sorts. Like Tolkien, though, Lewis did not accept the Bible as the infallible Word of God and he picked and chose what he would believe about the New Testament apostolic faith, rejecting such things as the substitutionary blood atonement of Christ. And like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis loved at least some things about Catholicism. He believed in purgatory, confessed his sins to a priest, and had the last rites performed by a Catholic priest (C.S. Lewis: A Biography, pp. 198, 301).
J.R. Tolkien died in 1973 at age 81, two years after his wife, and they are buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Wolvercote cemetery in the suburbs of Oxford. THE STORY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS The setting for Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is in “Middle Earth” and the hero is a little creature (a hobbit) named Frodo Baggins who accidentally becomes possessor of a magical ring that is the lost and greatly desired treasure of the “Dark Lord Sauron.” The story line revolves around Frodo’s action-filled journey to take the ring to the Cracks of Doom where it can be destroyed. OCCULTISM Though the aforementioned reviewers would have us believe that Tolkien’s books contain simple allegories of good vs. evil, Tolkien portrays wizards and witches and wizardry as both good and evil. For example, a wizard named Gandalf is portrayed as a good person who convinces Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit to take a journey to recover stolen treasure. The books depict the calling up of the dead to assist the living, which is plainly condemned in the Scriptures. Though not as overtly and sympathetically occultic as the Harry Potter series, Tolkien’s fantasies are unscriptural and present a very dangerous message.
TOLKIEN SAID THE BOOKS
ARE NOT CHRISTIAN ALLEGORIES
In his last interview in 1971, Tolkien stated that he did not intend The Lord of the Rings as a Christian allegory and that Christ is not depicted in his fantasy novels. When asked about the efforts of the trilogy’s hero, Frodo, to struggle on and destroy the ring, Tolkien said, “But that seems I suppose more like an allegory of the human race. I’ve always been impressed that we’re here surviving because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds: jungles, volcanoes, wild beasts... they struggle on, almost blindly in a way” (Interview by Dennis Gerrolt; it was first broadcast in January 1971 on BBC Radio 4 program “Now Read On…”). That doesn’t sound like the gospel to me. When Gerrolt asked Tolkien, “Is the book to be considered as an allegory?” the author replied, “No. I dislike allegory whenever I smell it.”
Thus, the author of The Lord of the Rings denied the very thing that some Christians today are claiming, that these fantasies are an allegory of Christ’s victory over the devil. TOLKIEN SPAWNED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS Tolkien’s books created the vast and spiritually dangerous fantasy role-playing games that are so influential today. Dungeons and Dragons, which appeared in the early 1970s, was based on Tolkien’s fantasy novels. One fantasy-game web site makes this interesting observation: “The whole fantasy adventure genre of books came into play when J.R. Tolkien wrote his The Lord of the Rings books. From his vivid imagination and creative thinking he created the fantasy adventure genre. Tolkien probably got his ideas from ancient religions. Peoples of different civilizations were writing epics way before Tolkien was even born. They wrote epics about people with superior strength, about gods that punished people and, travels to the underworld. Tolkien is accredited to being the man who started it all but if traced back even further you'll see that he wasn’t the one that created it, just the one that pushed it forth.”
This secular writer better understands what Tolkien’s books are about than the aforementioned Christian publications. Tolkien certainly did get his ideas from pagan religions, and the message promoted in his fantasy books is strictly pagan. ROCK AND ROLLERS LOVE TOLKIEN Tolkien has even influenced many rock and rollers. The song “Misty Mountain Hop” by the demonic hard rock group Led Zeppelin was inspired by Tolkien’s writings. Marc Bolan, of the rock group Tyrannasaurus Rex, created a musical and visual style influenced by Tolkien. The heavy metal rock group Iluvatar named themselves after a fictional god from Tolkien’s work The Silmarillion. Others could be mentioned.
The world knows its own; and when the demonic world of fantasy role-playing and the morally filthy world of rock and roll love something, you can be sure it is not godly and it is not the truth.
"“The moment your child is complaining that his stomach hurts, then points to his chest instead, and his face is turning red and he’s coughing, so you call 911. Except, when EMS gets there they laugh at you and tell you if it’s asthma he won’t be complaining about “abdominal pain” (except he’s NOT because he’s POINTING TO HIS CHEST!!!) Then the other asks, “Why aren’t they in school?” Then proceeds to LOOK AROUND YOUR HOUSE when you tell her you homeschool!!! Seriously, people, I am not making this up! I. Am. Livid.”
Bordelon now says that she is “super nervous” having filed a complaint and is planning on joining the Home School Legal Defense Association, adding, “I HATE having to feel scared for making a good choice”."
"Krista Bordelon’s experience also illustrates the emerging trend being pushed by the establishment that children do not belong to their parents but are in fact property of the state or the “community,” as outlined in a now infamous clip featuring MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry."
31 SECOND CLIP:
4 MINUTE CLIP:
RAMIFICATIONS OF THE "COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP" OF CHILDREN:
