Clergy talk about political candidates from the pulpit all the time. My pastor stood on the pulpit and said he thought Clinton should resign. I has no problem with it, even as a Democrat and nothing was ever said or done about it. On the other hand, there some limits. Churches have to decide if they want to keep there tax exempt status as a religious organization or not. Tax exempt status has nothing to do with separation of church or state or the Constitution but is written into law that cam be modified by congress. My view would be, if there really is no separation between church and state, then the state should not be giving religious organizations preferable tax breaks just because they are religious.

No they probably were not perverts. They did seem to be on some sort of power trip bullying a 13 yr old girl into undressing without her parents present to prove she didn't have large doses of a common analgesic on her. I can't believe anyone thinks this is ok.

It not the culture that has the right to treat the child as they see fit. Or the schools. Its the parents. If the kid is to be striped searched the parents should have been present. They probably did not what to get the parents involved because they knew they could not bully the parents into allowing it like they could the child. I doubt the police would have done it without the parent there. I myself am not a believer in spanking but I am also not a believer in the government telling parents they are not allowed to spank, within reason, if they think its the right thing to do.

I wonder if they are arguing they needed to take drastic actions to protect the 13 yr old with prescription medication from herself. That's not the school's role it the parent's role. The parents should have be called immediately and it been dealt with from there.

I wonder what would have happened if she would have refused to disrobe and allow the search. I also wonder what they threatened her with do get her to comply. I know if I had a child they would be taught to never to submit to any such searches willingly. Not sure about being perverts but sounds like some people in the school system are on some sort of power trip. I wonder who many kids the strip search a year. I bet a now a lot less than they used too.

it sounds reasonable if you understand that the truth Genesis is trying to communicate isn't about what or how, but why. Ironically, the Israelites of 3,000 years ago probably understood that better than most people do today.

I suspect one reason ESPN is doing this is to provide cable companies with an argument that ala-carte programming is something the internet is moving away from. Ala-carte programming would probably be just as bad for ESPN as the cable providers.

I might feel better if you could give me the standard deviation for that.