SOPHOMORE CAN’T DISTRIBUTE CHRISTIAN LEAFLETS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Samantha Weatherholtz was distributing leaflet to fellow students. Some had Bible passages printed on them.
That has put Samantha on her own sabbatical, according to the Associated Press. That is, maybe.

It’s in Fort Defiance, Virginia, interestingly enough. With a name like that for a burg, why should not one of its youth follow through?

Anyhow, there in her Augusta County school hallways and classrooms Samantha handed out papers with religious verses on them. Suspension. Over and out. Defiance? Well, that’s what is being decided at the moment while Samantha declares to media that she will be back in studies. Yes.

According to her mother, Kelly Bussard, Samantha will be right there at her desk at Fort Defiance High School in the western part of the state — on Monday. Whether she will continue to give others leaflets with Scripture on them is another question. Time will tell. Right now, Samantha is mum on the issue.

In the meantime, assistant principal Donna Abernathy informed Samantha that if the student persisted in giving away her papers with religious content, suspension would be in her school history record.

School personnel moved into action. Like school staffer Frank Wade refusing to comment to the press about what was going on. That’s action non-applied. Instead, he passed the information gauntlet to Augusta County Public Schools Assistant Superintendent George Earhart. The latter informed the media that "he would look into the incident."

Now the Samantha household has turned to the family’s church as well as the Christian Law Association, Seminole, Florida.

That particular organization has been at the forefront of other like cases. It aided Terry Schiavo’s family with legal assistance earlier in 2005.

At present, Samantha appears optimistic. In other words, she’s keeping the faith.

"A lot of my friends are behind me." With that, she loads up her backpack with textbooks intent on returning to learning.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

For More Information On This Story Visit: truthinconviction.us/weblog.php

Story Submitted By: