Thursday, May 13, 2004

A win for Christians and for TRUE freedom of religious expression!

A court in Michigan overturned a school's decision to exclude a Senior's quote from the yearbook because it contained a Bible verse. Tellingly, she was not looking for money only the right to express her constitutionally protected viewpoint. Oddly, when "principled" liberals sue, it almost ALWAYS involved cash changing hands (i.e. Jess Jackson, tobacco lawsuit, malpractice suits, etc.) the agreement came down to this...

>>>The ACLU said that under the terms of the settlement, the school district agreed to place a sticker with Moler's original entry in copies of the yearbook on file at the high school; ordered current yearbook staff to not censor other religious or political speech; to train its staff on free speech and religious freedom issues; and to write Moler a letter of regret.<<<

That is what the First Amendment is supposed to be about. The government not telling someone that they cannot express their religious beliefs. The students write the yearbook and pay for the yearbook, and doesn't it make sense that they should get to have their say in the yearbook?

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