Via Making Light:
Christian yahoos drive Jewish family out of southern Delaware
Mrs. Dobrich, who is Orthodox, said that when she was a girl, Christians here had treated her faith with respectful interest. Now, she said, her son was ridiculed in school for wearing his yarmulke. She described a classmate of his drawing a picture of a pathway to heaven for everyone except "Alex the Jew."
Mrs. Dobrich's decision to leave her hometown and seek legal help came after a school board meeting in August 2004 on the issue of prayer. [...] A homemaker active in her children's schools, Mrs. Dobrich said she had asked the board to develop policies that would leave no one feeling excluded because of faith. People booed and rattled signs that read "Jesus Saves," she recalled. Her son had written a short statement, but he felt so intimidated that his sister read it for him. In his statement, Alex, who was 11 then, said: "I feel bad when kids in my class call me 'Jew boy.' I do not want to move away from the house I have lived in forever."
Later, another speaker turned to Mrs. Dobrich and said, according to several witnesses, "If you want people to stop calling him 'Jew boy,' you tell him to give his heart to Jesus."
Immediately afterward, the Dobriches got threatening phone calls.
I hate people.
Something to give you a little hope for them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/us/30pastor.html?ei=5090&en=6e51918eb9327aca&ex=1311912000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
I would be happy to explain what it was like to grow up surrounded by fundamentalists, and how squidgee it has made me talking about religion, among many other things.
I hate fundies.
I try so hard to be accepting and tolerant. They can feel that way, but I draw the line at them taking action to force them out. Where are the people in that community standing up for them? Where are the officials and lawyers and anti-defamation representatives (who should be descending on this case like hawks)?
Psychotics can believe in their 'visions'; that what they feel and experience is true, but that is also why we have institutions and physicians - to keep them from ACTING on it!
Am I stating that fundies are crazy. Absolutely. Anyone who is that compartmentalized? Clinically, pathologically, utterly crazy.