The Christian Newswire reports: NJ School Mocks Christians with Columbine-Style ‘Mock Hostage Drill’ – Offends Students and Parents

Bob Pawson, National Coordinator of the Scriptures in Schools Project, responds to reports that Burlington Township High School in NJ staged a mock school shooting and hostage drama — complete with anti-Christian bigotry. After school was dismissed, scores of Christian students went home and informed their parents of this vile outrage.

The mock terrorist attack was carried out by police detectives portraying two angry Christian men armed with handguns. They invaded the school’s front door; pretended to gun down several students in the hallways; and then took ten students hostage while barricading themselves in the school’s media center.

The fake gunmen were described as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who don’t believe in separation of church and state.” The mock-Christian terrorists “went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.”

The best line is attributed to the School Superintendent

Before the Thursday, March 22, 2007 exercise, Superintendent Chris Manno said, “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible…”

As real as possible, but only insofar as it doesn’t offend anyone who would be, well, offended to the point of violence.

Got to leave it to a school bureaucracy to come up with this one. Next quarter we’ll use the (pick one):

• Fundamentalist Polygamist Mormons for Monogamy
• Zionist Conspirators for Palestine
• Homosexuals Opposed to ‘Gay’ Marriage

Nah, we’ll just use the Christians who Hate Jesus and Love Violence.

The original story was carried by the Burlington County Times.