Pull Out The Awesome Sauce File, Please

Let's file this one under awesome sauce. Let's file this one under that's one for the good fight. Are things getting better or worse in this insane world that we live in...this time it's getting better. This young piece of super awesomeness named, Jessica Ahlquist, schooled her, err, school and the adults on the schoolboard in her district. At age 16 she obviously has a black belt in badd-ass-ed-ness. Yea buddy...

That document The New Atheist keep talking about..and secularists...and the ACLU...and ...

Here's the short of it...Her school violated that separation of church and state that the mighty atheist blogosphere keeps talking about by putting up a banner with a prayer on it (oopsie). Seemingly she was the only one that has read the constitution because she didn't get support from any of her peers or the so called adult leaders in her school. In fact...

Hey baby, we should live on this street. Just sayin'.

Someone identified as "person of faith" said, "...start every game with a prayer with the team...obligation to protect and defend moral values of our students with this banner (1)." OooooKaaaayyy, incriminate your self much. So stupid...sheez. Any who...

This is covered all over the blogoshpere so I'm not going to go into the people can have morals without God and First Amendment, we all know that (it's "them" that doesn't know that). What I wanna talk about is a lesson that I learned from a Buddhism that I used to practice years ago...pre Nu Kriss let's say.

Buddha rulez, assholes.

There was this great sayin' that we used to use all of the time and it goes like..."It takes one to stand for the rest to follow" and that is just what our teen-inspirer did. Oh...oh kind gentle and very goodlooking readers, as you know I really really really hearted me some Christopher Hitchens-my hero. when he recently passed I had super weirdo thoughts like, gee I dunno...now the New Atheists are gonna fail...we are going to fade away...WTF is gonna happen now.

I'm absolutely inspire by Ms. Ahlquist. This article says...

"This girl stood up to not just peers but politicians to fight for the values of separation of church and state. In doing so, she gave her friends a lesson in civic responsibility and gave her school board a lesson in constitutional values. At a time with separation principles under attack, Jessica added a case in the win column for a society where faith is a personal not a public priority (link)."

This is one for the good guys. This is one for those that want and believe in a religion free public square. This is one for the good guys.

Thanks Jess...(got any older sister or aunts around age 35-ish, I'm Kriss)...(maybe green eyes, OK).


(1) I'm going to go out on a limb and say "person of faith" is one of the coaches at the school...probably the football coach. Just sayin'..

* Friendly Atheist