Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. That's different from "you can say whatever you want with no consequences." Parents can censor their children from dawn till dusk if they like. They can prosecute whatever doesn't meet their standards. The school operates as (can't remember the latin term) a surrogate parent when the kid is at school, and therefore can set any number of unreasonable, unconstitutional, unfair and mean rules that kids have to follow.

Having a closed campus was always the one that pissed me off. That, and the public-display-of-affection thing. Not that I ever had a girlfriend.

One society's discrimination is another society's protecting the children.

Moral values are always subject to the interpretation of whoever is in power. This is precisely why the Church (regardless of *which* church it happens to be) and the State must remain separate.

I guess I'm just pissed that if that little girl had written that she gets together to worship with her friends, it wouldn't have been a big deal. It's hypocrisy like this that pisses me off about people.


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Trivia nugget:

Husband went to school in Midland, Michigan.....

Footnotes:
1 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 506 (1968)
2 Id at 506.
3 See Good News Club v. Milford Central School District, 533 U.S. 98, 108-10 (2001); Widmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 269 (1981).

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The irony here is that this quote and footnotes are from a (different) Christian group's website that was promoting an anti-homosexual "Day of Truth".

I agree but what are the pagans going to do about it?

Nothing.

granola eating hippie-freak pussyfests...

and btw noodle:
That was hella funny!

No that's why the chuch and state should embrace each other...then walk arm in arm up to lover's leap. :lovers:

I hear a nearby town council passed an ordinance is banning Orange robed Buddists. Something about they fear an Orange Revolution. Oh. There goes that news van again.

Would saffron hold up it court? :eyebrow:

The thing is, *no one* should have to hide their religion in school. There's a big difference between someone writing a paper about their faith, and the school saying (as it did when *I* was in grade school), "Alright students, now, before we sit down to eat our lunches, let's say the Lord's Prayer and give thanks for our food."

Individual expression of one's religion *is* protected speech. Publicly funded entities embracing one religion over another is *not* protected speech, it is state-sponsored religious advertising.

What about aliens
 

Now were talking have a look at the aliens at < www.rael.org >

Aren't they the ones that (probably) faked cloning last year? Friend of mine got a couple folks out of that cult, I think. (that page won't load for me)

That's what happens in the mosh pit. When did sex and drug and rock and roll become a satanic religion? Oh. Mick Jagger and the Stones. I forgot.