Chakolate wrote:
> This law goes into effect September 1st in Texas.
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5084961.html
>
> (quote)
> ...the law forbids school districts from interfering with students who
> wish to use school events, and their captive audience of peers, staff
and
> community, to express their religious views.
>
> The law, also called the Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act,
> requires districts to adopt a policy under which certain student leaders
> must be given op****tunities to speak at all school events at which
> students speak publicly, including graduation, football games and
morning
> announcements.
>
> As long as students do not engage in "obscene, vulgar, offensively lewd
> or indecent speech," they will be permitted an open mic to express their
> religious beliefs. The law attempts to get around the constitutional
> prohibition against state promotion of religion by requiring schools to
> provide disclaimers stating that the students' speech is not school or
> district sponsored.
> Rather than protecting students from religious discrimination, the law's
> true accomplishment will be the creation of state-sanctioned forums for
> students who wish to pray and proselytize to captive audiences. With
that
> comes the potential to offend everyone, including the Christian
activists
> who championed this bill's passage.
>
> Students could cite their religious convictions to condemn gay and
> lesbian students. They could promote their faith as the only true
> religion. They could pray for the conversion of specific students. They
> could even promote atheism, Satanism or paganism.
> (end of quote)
>
> I figure just one student standing up and talking about the history of
> freethought in America would get this law overturned in about five
> minutes. :-)
I think the student would get shot first. And then prayed over. :-(
> Pray. v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a
> single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
> --Ambrose Bierce
Yep - he hit that nail on the head!
FurPaw
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every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
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