We read:
"A court in Wisconsin has been asked to suspend immediately a policy in the Tomah Area School District that bans Christian symbols in students' artwork, but allows Hindu, Buddhist and satanic representations. The motion was filed yesterday by the Alliance Defense Fund, which has taken on the case of a student identified by the initials A.P.
The ADF launched a lawsuit on the student's behalf after a teacher refused to give him a grade on a project because his work included "John 3:16" as well as "As sign of love."
The school district, however, openly acknowledged and publicized various pieces of art representing Buddhism, and Hinduism as well as several demon faces that appeared satanic.
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8 comments:
Explicitly disallowing one religion while allowing others is definitely in breach of the US Constitution.
Longview
Isnt this just typical of two faced liberals who allow you to show pentagrams,goat heads,buddas,sacred monkey gods and gaia but you cant show virgin marrys crosses of christ as usial the two standards of liberal snot heads
Skepticus, I work with a person who claims to be atheist. This is my only contact with an atheist. Not only is he anti-religion, he will not even order products from companies he knows have religious people working at them.
Ferndale Fanny
Haha! Very nice one, Skepticus. I ask you, do you truly think Hitchents is not "anti-religious"?
If that man had his way religious freedom would cease to exist because religions would be outlawed. But of course, it would only be Christianity. Typical atheist moron.
The prolem I have with our courts' interpretation of the establishment clause in the First Amendment is that it is being used to purge from the public discourse any mention of religion or gesture of faith [e.g. the New Jersey high school football coach who was suspended for having the audacity to kneel and bow his head dring a studet-led prayer]. Somehow, I doubt that this is what the founding fathers envisioned for our country.
I daresay that atheism is as much of a religion as any other. Atheists so emphaticly deny that which the devout insist is true.
Atheism is as much a religion as "creation science" is science.
A good way to understand how the Establishment clause appeared on one of these blogs early this year. The way it was put was that "Religious institutions can get public money, but it must not be directed to them by state actors." Private recipients would have to make individual choices to send such money (e.g., school vouchers to religious schools).
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