1. FREEDOM CLASSROOM A Value Added Class in Freedom of Conscience Principles The 2012 Pilot Program for High School Students

2. Freedom Classroom: Preface Freedom Classroom 2012 is more than a tour of Washington D.C. and the surrounding historical areas. The trip was: The exclamation point to the preceding education in the academy and orientation classrooms. The students introduction to a new and real world of groups in ideological political, social and moral conflict. This made classroom content relevant. The beginning of living freedom of conscience values with sensitivity that respects the convictions of others in all their personal relationships: with friends, family, people at work, in the local church, community and nation.

3. Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: Apply Freedom of Conscience principles respectfully in personal relationships within a plural society. This is gospel mission for these times! It is the Christian response to Satan ’ s surrogates that demand compliance else experience economic sanctions or worse! Understand the underlying truth that Freedom of Conscience and its attendant personal freedoms is the most basic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. The framers of the Constitution recognized these freedoms as unalienable rights endowed by the Creator of mankind.

4. Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: Value Freedom of Conscience principles in their community service and personal relationships. Be informed about natural rights, contemporary issues and pending legislation. Advocate for freedom of conscience unalienable rights at the local, state or national level.

5. Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience Principles help the students to be independent thinkers as they consider how to Preserve freedom of conscience. Respect the conscientious convictions of others. Proactively participate respectfully in the domestic affairs of this nation as informed citizens who are Christians.

6. Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience Educate, inspire & introduce students how to: Be ready to represent God as the one who loves us unconditionally in Christ. There isn ’ t anything he would not ‘ be ’ or ‘ do ’ in order to be with us personally and to have each one of us want to be with him. Christ, our Creator-Redeemer, respects freedom of conscience convictions and choices as revealed by his offer of eternal life to “ WHOSOEVER believes in him…. ”

7. Freedom Classroom: A Value Added Educational Experience Facilitates discovery that freedom of conscience is a core value of the: U.S. Constitution U.S. History Gospel of Scripture United Nations Article 18 – Human Rights Freedom of Conscience without coercion

8. Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans Recommend lesson plans cover topics and related principles: Freedom of Conscience the most basic freedom under Government, God & Gospel Proclamation. Pluralism in the Colonies & the Constitution. The Impact of Polarization on Pluralism & Freedom of Conscience.

9. Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans Recommend that lesson plans cover the following topics and related principles: 1 st Amendment: Separation of Church & State. Dominionism: Reinterprets the 1st Amendment Separation of Church and State principle: A peaceful political Christian coup to take over Government? A Christian Nation Established by the Constitution vs. A Constitution That Reflects Christian unalienable rights endowed by a Creator?

10. Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans Communication lesson plan topics & principles that: Mentor students in the use of a non-adversarial communication strategy that respects conscientious convictions. It ’ s not about a ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ agenda, belief or conviction! Mentor students in corollary skills for use when discussing controversial issues. It ’ s not about winning an adversarial debate!

11. Freedom Classroom: Recommended Lesson Plans Coercion lesson plan topics & principles that: Teach people are entitled respectful conversations Teach people are entitled to make choices without being coerced, i.e., forced to comply or conform to the ideas, mores or values of the other party. Coercion has many faces, e.g., restrictions, sanctions, threats, intimidation, economic, emotional & social duress, abuse, alienation, labeling, profiling, laws passed for the common good, etc.