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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos  I wonder if the Christian "news" sites and tv networks are giving this case coverage?
It seems to me that this case puts a chink in their claim that the ACLU is a tool of the radical, socialist lefties that are trying to destroy our society. | Quote:
In an interview, Professor Laycock said that religiously observant students often find the atmosphere in public school to be unwelcoming and “feel themselves a dissident and excluded minority.” As the Jehovah’s Witnesses did in the last century, these students are turning to the courts.
The briefs from the conservative religious organizations depict the school environment as an ideological battleground. The Christian Legal Society asserts that its law school chapters “have endured a relentless assault by law schools intolerant of their unpopular perspective on the morality of homosexual conduct or the relevance of religious belief.”
The American Center for Law and Justice brief, filed by its chief counsel, Jay Alan Sekulow, warns that public schools “face a constant temptation to impose a suffocating blanket of political correctness upon the educational atmosphere.”
What galvanized most of the groups on Mr. Frederick’s side was the breadth of the arguments made on the other side. The solicitor general’s brief asserts that under the Supreme Court’s precedents, student speech “may be banned if it is inconsistent with a school’s basic educational mission.”
The Juneau School Board’s mission includes opposing illegal drug use, the administration’s brief continues, citing as evidence a 1994 federal law, the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, which requires that schools, as a condition of receiving federal money, must “convey a clear and consistent message” that using illegal drugs is “wrong and harmful.”
| I think the religious right are trying to get an inroad into public education and the right to spread their doctrines. I don't think this is religious freedom of speech as much as the school's policy of anti-illegal drug use.
But, then ,when you're Pat Robertson and trying to drag the uneducated to follow you to a theocracy in the US, then I guess you'll grab at anything to get you there. |