GOD’S EDITORIALS

 

May 9, 2003

New threats found within the Columbine school force school to
"lock down" while threats are investigated.


February 14, 2000

COLUMBINE INSPIRES SEARCH FOR VALUES

DENVER --
     Interest in gun-control legislation has boomed since the Columbine tragedy, but so has interest in building student character after the evil unleashed by Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold.
     With that in mind, the Colorado legislature is considering a proposal to require schools to post the Ten Commandments and offer a moment of silent reflection on our heritage as a free people in one nation under God.
     “Since Columbine, we're dealing with a new level of concern that value-free education is failing, and in some cases failing fatally,” said state Sen. John Andrews of Golden, who sponsored the bill.
     Among the legislation's supporters is Darrell Scott, whose daughter Rachel was shot and killed in the April 20 carnage. Harris and Kiebold murdered 13 persons and injured 23 that day before taking their own lives.
     Debate over displaying the Ten Commandments has raged for decades since the Supreme Court ruled in a 1980 Kentucky case that posting the Old Testament document in schools violated the separation of church and state.
     Clearly, however, the Columbine massacre has emboldened supporters. In Tennessee, civic and religious leaders have staged at least two Ten Commandments rallies since November that drew thousands of supporters.
     In the past year, seven Tennessee school districts have voted to allow the posting of the biblical laws. Similar movements are afoot in Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
     Advocates of posting the Commandments won a major victory last week when the Indiana Senate voted 38-9 to approve a bill that would allow the biblical laws to be displayed as part of a larger group of historical documents.
     
THE WASHINGTON TIMES