The Des Moines Register reported that after one 2004 performance, Junkyard Prophet handed out CDs to a few random students that bore this message: "the death sentence [is] on you due to your sins! The very evidence of your sin will be your death! It is appointed to you to die and after that you will be judged according to your ways! His judgment is so thorough every thought will be brought to the light. When all your sin against God is exposed, how will you escape the damnation of hell?"
Not surprisingly, several of the articles quote school administrators expressing shock and anger over what occurred. As one superintendent in Arkansas explained, "We had no idea about their religious, right-wing message. They misrepresented their program." Another principal in Iowa felt the same way, stating, "The [band's] brochure has nothing in it regarding a religious message." |