A banner in Cranston High School West has a prayer banner up that's been there for almost 50 years. Pretty amazing when you realize it's constitutionally illegal, clearly violating the Establishment clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
After a parent complained about it the ACLU got involved and a subcommittee meeting was held a couple days ago. A bunch of butthurt religious people were protesting with signs around their necks reading "Keep Original Banner". Clearly these people aren't a fan of the law. They get a government funded public school to endorse religion and then call it oppression when they're told it has to stop.
The meeting ended with 3 of the subcommittee members voting to keep the banner and proceed with a legal battle against the ACLU while 1 member voted to remove it because she didn't want the school to lose money going through an expensive court case. Geeze... does nobody care about American principles here?
these aren't a final decision. These members will give their recommendations to the school board, and it will be their decision. From the looks of it though, no matter what the school board decides both sides are prepared to take this case to court.
I think a better solution would be to get the government out of schools. I don't care if kids go to madrasas as long as academic standards in real subjects are met.
ReplyDeleteGeeze only one member voted against it? So everyone else is willing to lose money for the school trying to keep something that is illegal? Thats fucking bullshit.
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So much much butthurt. . .
ReplyDeleteOf course they get upset, they think it's an attack by Satan himself.
ReplyDeletePretty ridiculous.
Idiots, they can't win and are going to waste a bunch of money that could be used to better educate kids. Take the stupid banner down.
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i bet if they hung other banners up, the religous nuts for the original one would complain, saying how they only want the original. Where are the Pagans and their banners??
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"american" principles is not everyone's same principles...bah
ReplyDelete50 years and no one noticed. Then religious hypocrites bitch. Lol
ReplyDeleteSomeone should remind them what the Constitution says.
ReplyDeleteI lol'd when that one bitch stood up and said "if it wasn't for God almighty, we wouldn't be here today" like she was stating a fact or something.
ReplyDeleteTake the fucking sign down you goddamn rednecks.
That's so stupid. I really want to add more, but I'm just speechless right now.
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ReplyDeleteNo. No one in power believes in American principles anymore. It's all jingoism and religious zealotry now.
ReplyDeleteOh man, this is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteso sick of religious people pulling this crap
It's ridiculous how worked up people can get about religion when all of our Constitutional rights are being subverted.
ReplyDeleteI guess religion really forms the best distraction when you want to fuck up the world.
The worst thing about this is the American education system is already underfunded and has to stretch its limited budget as far as possible. This will only cost the school more than it can afford. It doesn't matter who wins the court case because either way the school children will lose out as the money spent on legal proceedings could have gone on books or other educational tools.
ReplyDeleteDon't people realize that there are plenty of private christian schools for parents who insist their kids have christianity mixed with their kids education?
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ReplyDeletewow. he's incensed, dude. he mad.
ReplyDeletewe didnt see much of the debate, but what we did see is that the pro-banner people's arguments all seemed to be along the lines of "its been there for years", not bothering to take into account that fact that it is technically illegal. since when was doing something illegal ok just because you'd been doing it for years?
btw, audio cuts out at the end of the video, cant hear the last few seconds.
the arguments for the people that wanted to KEEP the banner were really bad. How could they vote to keep it? Because "it's been going on for years?"
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i think its just stupid to make such a big deal out of this, words are just words,
ReplyDeleteThis definitely shouldn't go to court. They should just grin, bear it, and remove it. Sheese. Personally, I wouldn't care if they kept it up. But I usually prefer the path of least resistance. Duncha know. hehe
ReplyDeleteugh so dumb...
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