You Can Run But You Cannot Hide is the name of a punk rock anti drug group who organizes strong anti-drug motivational programs in high schools. Many school administrators have taken a great deal of heat from parents and the higher ups because this group is not quite honest about who they are. They are also not very transparent about their evangelical nature. Once they get into a school program some things have gone down that are not supposed to be happening with a captive audience.
According to the Minnesota Independent News:
“They talked about influencing and brainwashing people. Be wise to the fact that is what they were doing. They were using the same tactics,” Neis told the students at the assembly. Neis said he contacted other schools in the area and found that they had no idea that YCRBYCH was a Christian ministry.
In 2005, at a Eureka Springs, Ark., high school, students walked out of the assembly; afterward, the principal took heat from parents. According to the local paper, The Lovely Citizen, Eureka Springs superintendent Reck Wallis, said, “I take responsibility. We had no idea about their religious, right-wing message. They misrepresented their program. We want [Eureka Springs schools] to be open and all inclusive. … They won’t be back.”
At Pequot Lakes High School in central Minnesota in 2007, the group stirred controversy when students reportedly ran out of the assembly crying after the group showed graphic images of abortion and told the students that God wanted women to be subservient to men. John McDonald, Pequot Lakes High School Principal, told WCCO, “We were expecting something a bit different,” he said. “The thing we apologized to students for is the program wasn’t to the expectation that we thought it would be.”
This entire business sounds deceptive and it should not be going on in schools as it involves a captive audience and smacks of indoctrination. Michelle Bachmann should know better! She should know the laws of this country and follow them if she is going to remain in the House of Representatives. She would be the very first person to be stridently shrieking “Rule of Law!”
What was that other scandal with Bachmann? I used to get emails trying to rally people to remove her, but now I can’t remember what it was all about.
Anyway, it’s odd those Principles would have let the punk group in without seeing and approving the presentation first. And why didn’t someone shut them down the second the group started pulling that crap? Weird.
There is a scandal a day. She makes Sarah Palin look like Edward Kennedy.
I don’t think that Principals preview those sort of things. I think they approved the presentation as it was described on paper and then the troupe deviated from what they said they were going to do.
It describes some rather horrific scenes if you keep following the links provided. I suppose this story caught my interest since I had seen the mmm mmm Obama school no less than 20 times. One school celebrating Black History Month causing such a commotion. Meanwhile, this bunch of knuckleheads cutting a swath across the midwest with Bachmann raising money for them.
Reminds me of Young Life (who I don’t think should be permitted in schools) on steroids.
I meant Principals, not Principles. Sheesh. Anyway, what is Young Life? Why do you know all these groups and I have no clue?
There are a couple of things can be said about this:
Evangelical Christians really believe. They believe that Jesus is the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through him. If they truly believe that people who don’t know about Jesus will suffer eternal damnation, then bygoollygee you’d expect them to do everything they can using every and any method they can to save as many people as possible. So I mean come one, let’s at least admit that their motives are good. You may not believe as they do, but at least appreciate where they’re coming from.
I do NOT like the bait and switch or hijack evangelism where they trick an audience into coming and then try to cram Jesus down their throats. Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me.” Jesus is an attractive person. There’s no reason to trick people. If they don’t like Jesus then these dishonest tactics probably make Jesus even less likeable. That’s just my opinion.
But just like everything else, there are two sides. We’ve heard only one side of this story. It does look bad. I don’t want to hear Bachmann’s response to this. Don’t waste my time with a politician, but before I can judge this I’d have to watch a performance of these guys (which needless to say I am not at all interested in doing). I think that these guys are just immature kids, and I hope they’ll grow and find more honest methods to reach people.
If anyone wants to see something great, First Baptist Church of Manassas has an awesome awesome men’s choir. They sing on the first Sunday of the month, and sometimes they sing at other churches. They’re often accompied by a guy with a Les Paul (now and then a Telecaster) who throws in some chords and a bluesy lick as a fill. Their other choirs are good, but the men’s choir is just out of this world.
Thanks for the info, El Guapo. Do they perform traditional hymns or the more current stuff?
Evangelicals probably don’t believe any more than other Christians. They just have different expectations for themselves. Their entire argument becomes faulty when they resort to false premise.
They sing both traditional hymns and current stuff. Most of it is up-tempo foot stomping but they’ll throw in an occasional sleeper. The other Sundays of the month they have the women’s choir, the teenage choir, the children’s choir and a mixed choir. A lot of people like to sing in that place.
There’s one young woman there we affectionately refer to as “The Canary”. She has a breathtaking singing voice. She just knocks my socks off. So many people want a chance to solo that she only gets a chance to really belt it out maybe two or three times a year, but when her number comes up, boy o boy!
Do you know when her turn is coming up?
Amazing that people want to solo. Must be those singing Baptists!
I would going into more secure hiding than Bin Lauden if I thought I had to solo with happy birthday even. So would the rest of the world if they thought they had to listen to me.
I don’t want to ask when the Canary will sing again. It’s kind of rude. “Hey, I enjoyed your solo, but could you tell me when that really good singer is going to solo?”
In 2006 one of the choirs recorded a CD. I never got a copy. I should ask if there are any more copies of that. That’s good stuff. They really like their music there. They have a paid music director. For a church of that size they sure do have a lot of talent.