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- From: pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: Limiting religious speech
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.130454.7249@tijc02.uucp>
- Organization: Advocates for Self-Government - Davy Crockett Chapter
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- References: <1992Aug23.000939.2789@wolves.uucp>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:04:54 GMT
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- news@wolves.uucp (The Wolfe of the Den) writes:
- :
- : What is getting ridiculous is the extent to which speech is
- : being restricted in the attempt to prevent any mention of "religion" in
- : the public schools. When a student speaker is prohibited from
- : mentioning the strong influence of religion in their own life, without
- : attempting to impose any expectations on the others, or a student
- : privately bowing their head to pray silently in a non-disturbing way
- : gets pulled from the assembly, then things have gone too far.
-
- This action as you describe it was probably done illegally. This is
- very similar to the case where a student was reading the bible in the
- bus to school and was told not to. It was resolved that the
- administration was wrong in doing such an action.
- --
- Paul Schmidt: Advocates for Self-Government, Davy Crockett Chapter President
- 706 Judith Drive, Johnson City, TN 37604, (615)283-0084, uunet!tijc02!pjs269
- "Freedom seems to have unleashed the creative energies of the people -- and
- leads to ever higher levels of income and social progress." -- U.N. report
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