WWJD?

I am not a traditional Christian (I'm a Unitarian Universalist, which in some circles is not regarded as Christian in the least) but I have some regard for the teachings of Jesus. So I'm kind of wondering what Bible the people in Georgetown, Delaware are reading. Would Jesus Christ have sanctioned the systematic belittling and harrassment of the Dobrichs, an Orthodox Jewish family, in his name?

“Because Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, I will speak out for him,” said the Rev. Jerry Fike of Mount Olivet Brethren Church, who gave the prayer at Samantha’s graduation. “The Bible encourages that.” Mr. Fike continued: “Ultimately, he is the one I have to please. If doing that places me at odds with the law of the land, I still have to follow him.”

Mrs. Dobrich, who is Orthodox, said that when she was a girl, Christians here had treated her faith with respectful interest. Now, she said, her son was ridiculed in school for wearing his yarmulke. She described a classmate of his drawing a picture of a pathway to heaven for everyone except “Alex the Jew.”

Granted, it could be said that the Dobrichs brought this on themselves by protesting the overwhelmingly Christian religious presence in the public schools. At a very emotionally charged hearing, Alex Dobrich had written a statement in which he noted “I feel bad when kids in my class call me ‘Jew boy.’ I do not want to move away from the house I have lived in forever.” Sounds reasonable on both counts to me.

Or maybe it's just the Dobrichs' stubborn refusal to be like everyone else. According to the Times, later at the same meeting "another speaker turned to Mrs. Dobrich and said, according to several witnesses, “If you want people to stop calling him ‘Jew boy,’ you tell him to give his heart to Jesus.”

Words fail.