I have noted previously on Political Correctness Watch (Scroll down) how the practice of leaving a Bible in hospital drawers was being banned in some Australian hospitals. Now it is schools:
"An education insider has revealed how Balmoral State High School, on Brisbane's southside, banned Gideons from distributing Bibles to pupils - a tradition which takes place in schools at the start of every year. Other schools in the state are also believed to have stopped the practice, through concern children of other faiths could be upset.
The Balmoral school has recently allowed Gideons back in after principal Richard Morrison left to become principal at Wellington Point State High School, on Brisbane's bayside. "The Gideons were told to stop delivering because of the principal's particular ideology towards multiculturalism, but now we have a new principal, so Bibles are back," a staff member said."
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Principals as dictators? Why can the choice not be left to the kids? Nobody was being FORCED to accept a Bible.
No Free Speech in Belgium
We read:
"The League of Human Rights was to lodge a complaint with the Antwerp public prosecution office against the websites Stormfront and Blood and Honour on Wednesday. Racist messages are alleged to have been posted to the discussion forums in recent days. The League of Human Rights claims the websites spread messages of hate and urge discrimination and violence.... The league based its complaint on anti-racism laws, which state that it is a prosecutable offence to incite hate and discrimination against a group or community."
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No word on Belgian prosecutions of Muslim hate speech yet. Belgium is of course the country that recently banned its largest political party, Vlaams Blok.
McCain Update
You can find here the speech that Senator McCain gave at the "New School". It is an excellent speech and the fact that it is basically a plea for tolerance is ironic in view of the intolerant and hostile way it was received. For all their talk of tolerance, the Left are very slow to exhibit it. I liked this sentence in the speech: "Americans deserve more than tolerance from one another, we deserve each other's respect, whether we think each other right or wrong in our views". I don't think many Leftists would agree with that, though.
A Good Reply to a Corrupt Legal Judgment
Further to my post of 22nd below, we read:
"The senior class at a southern Kentucky high school gave their response Friday night to a federal judge's order banning prayer at commencement.
About 200 seniors stood during the principal's opening remarks and began reciting the Lord's Prayer, prompting a standing ovation from a standing-room only crowd at the Russell County High School gymnasium. The thunderous applause drowned out the last part of the prayer.
The revival like atmosphere continued when senior Megan Chapman said in her opening remarks that God had guided her since childhood. Chapman was interrupted repeatedly by the cheering crowd... "
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They haven't found a way of banning Christian talk among students yet.
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