For the past 15 years, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has leased a building on Staten Island from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The building housing South Richmond High School, a public school for teens with special needs, is located on the campus of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto. A cement cross is attached to the building, and the DOE apparently had no problem with it until recently, when one, anonymous person filed a complaint.

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).

Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9)

“When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him” (Proverbs 16:7).

Last month I wrote about a low-profile case in North Carolina (compared to the high-profile “bathroom bill”) involving a Christian student group at North Carolina State University. Grace Christian Life sued the school over what it believes to be selective enforcement of a rule regulating their speech and expression on campus.

Why can’t the public schools stick to reading, writing, and ’rithmetic and leave sex education to the parents? Cover basic human anatomy, but no “pregnancy prevention.” Not even abstinence.

Why would any parent, believer or unbeliever, want the government to teach their children how to use condoms, promote illicit sexual behavior, and inform them that they can destroy the unborn children that might result from this behavior? The government’s motto: Get them early and indoctrinate them while they’re young.