Punished for Saying "Bless You"

Saying "bless you" after someone sneezes is offensive speech now in California and may get the offender punished.

For daring to utter the words "bless you", a student at William C. Wood High School in Vacaville, California has been punished by health teacher Steve Cuckovich.

Mr. Cuckovich took 25 points off the student's grade as an example to deter other students from uttering "bless you" or any other religious phrase that the teacher deems inappropriate.

"The blessing really doesn't make sense," Cuckovich declared.

Parents of Woods High students are outraged. They insist that what does not make sense is that a public school teacher would go to extreme lengths to punish a student for words that are harmless and polite.

Many parents are calling the "bless you" punishment ridiculous, offensive and persecutory against religion.

While the California high school is trying to spin its way out of damage control, the teacher is still saying that he will not allow anyone to say "bless you". He will simply find some other way to punish offenders.

The Vacaville "bless you" controversy is just one more example of what many California Christians perceive as increasing anti-Christian, anti-religion persecution in the taxpayer-funded public schools of the Golden State.

Recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California made high school math teacher Brad Johnson remove two patriotic banners he has displayed in his classroom for 25 years that mentioned God.

Also, a 16-year-old high school student in El Cajon, California was humiliated and suspended for bringing the Bible to school.

All this, combined with the current situation in San Juan Capistrano, where an "illegal" home Bible study was threatened and fined, makes more and more people question what's going on in California.

It's a spiritual war, that's what's going on.

Dare to say "bless you", pray, show patriotism, or carry a Bible and find yourself persecuted in California.