Christian Group Teaching Children to Hate in Public Schools?

First, the conservative majority on the US Supreme Court opens public school after-school programs to groups’ intent on religious proselytizing.

Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 533 U.S. 98 (2001), held that when a government operates a "limited public forum," it may not discriminate against speech that takes place within that forum on the basis of the viewpoint it expresses—in this case, against religious speech engaged in by an evangelical Christian club for children

He is what Justice Souter had to say about this decision:

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“It is beyond question that Good News intends to use the public school premises not for the mere discussion of a subject from a particular, Christian point of view, but for an evangelical service of worship calling children to commit themselves in an act of Christian conversion. The majority avoids this reality only by resorting to the bland and general characterization of Good News's activity as 'teaching of morals and character, from a religious standpoint'. If the majority's statement ignores reality, as it surely does, then today's holding may be understood only in equally generic terms. Otherwise, indeed, this case would stand for the remarkable proposition that any public school opened for civic meetings must be opened for use as a church, synagogue, or mosque.”

For more Content read: 1 Facts, 2 Majority opinion, 2.1 The Establishment Clause claim, 2.2 Scalia's concurring view, 2.3 Breyer's concurring view, 3 Dissenting opinions

And now this:

CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS TEACHING THE GENOCIDE OF NONBELIEVERS IN OUR SCHOOLS -
Katherine Stewart reports:

1 Samuel 15:20: Saul answered, 'But I did obey Yahweh! I brought back King Agag only after exterminating the Amalekites, and the army took the best sheep and cattle only to sacrifice to Yahweh.'

The story of the Amalekites has been used to justify genocide throughout the ages. According to Pennsylvania State University Professor Philip Jenkins, a contributing editor for the American Conservative, the Puritans used this passage when they wanted to get rid of the Native American tribes. Catholics used it against Protestants, Protestants against Catholics. "In Rwanda in 1994, Hutu preachers invoked King Saul's memory to justify the total slaughter of their Tutsi neighbors," writes Jenkins in his 2011 book, Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses (HarperCollins).

This fall, more than 100,000 American public school children, ranging in age from four to 12, are scheduled to receive instruction in the lessons of Saul and the Amalekites in the comfort of their own public school classrooms. The instruction, which features in the second week of a weekly "Bible study" course, will come from the Good News Club, an after-school program sponsored by a group called the Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). The aim of the CEF is to convert young children to a fundamentalist form of the Christian faith and recruit their peers to the club.

There are now over 3,200 clubs in public elementary schools, up more than sevenfold since the 2001 supreme court decision, Good News Club v Milford Central School, effectively required schools to include such clubs in their after-school programming.

The CEF has been teaching the story of the Amalekites at least since 1973. In its earlier curriculum materials, CEF was euphemistic about the bloodshed, saying simply that "the Amalekites were completely defeated." In the most recent version of the curriculum, however, the group is quite eager to drive the message home to its elementary school students. The first thing the curriculum makes clear is that if God gives instructions to kill a group of people, you must kill every last one:

'You are to go and completely destroy the Amalekites (AM-uh-leck-ites) - people, animals, every living thing. Nothing shall be left.'

"That was pretty clear, wasn't it?" the manual tells the teachers to say to the kids.

"Even more important, the Good News Club wants the children to know, the Amalakites were targeted for destruction on account of their religion, or lack of it. The instruction manual reads:

'The Amalekites had heard about Israel's true and living God many years before, but they refused to believe in him. The Amalekites refused to believe in God and God had promised punishment.'  [snip]  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/17/texas-war-on-history?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

Here are a few words about this children’s program from the Good New Club Website:

http://www.cefonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=13&Itemid=100049/

Good News Club^® is a ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship^® in which trained teachers meet with groups of children in schools, homes, community centers, churches, apartment complexes, just about anywhere the children can easily and safely meet with their parent's permission. Each week the teacher presents an exciting Bible lesson using colorful materials from CEF Press^®. This action-packed time also includes songs, Scripture memory, a missions story and review games or other activities focused on the lesson's theme.