Like most conservatives, I generally feel our current culture is far too litigious. Many in today’s society will immediately react to any disappointment or difficulty by filing a lawsuit instead of merely accepting that, sometimes, things just happen.
One New York public school teacher, in my estimation, does not fall into that category.
She recently filed a suit in response to a letter she received from the school’s superintendent months earlier instructing her to remove a litany of inspirational quotes from her class.
The self-described Christian reported getting an eight-page letter detailing which materials she must take down to avoid offending anyone.
A Ronald Reagan quote in which he states “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under” is indicative of the speech deemed unacceptable by the school.
Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center is the teacher’s attorney and has harsh words for those limiting his client’s free expression.
He said the school is treating the existence of affirmative posters in the classroom “like it’s some sort of pornography,” adding that administrators went too far in stripping the teacher’s room of any mention of faith.
Officials “literally went through her classroom with a fine-tooth comb and removed anything that had anything to do with Christianity,” Muise said. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
In addition to quotes on her desk and classroom walls, administrators also forced the teacher to remove a box available for students with prayer requests. The school’s Bible club would collect the requests and include them in prayers during meetings.
The superintendent admonished the teacher, saying “Under no circumstances should you participate in the club’s meetings or activities.”
All this amounts to a breach of her liberty, she contends.
“I believe that my First Amendment rights were violated,” she stated, adding she feels called to “fight to protect the rights that people have died to give me.”
Muise said the students’ rights were also abridged.
“This was just students leading prayers and they removed the prayer box from the classroom,” he said. “That’s a violation of their rights.”
He called the incident “an example of what we are seeing across the country.”
Our founders created an amendment specifically to protect an individual’s right to express his or her faith. In just the last few generations, that uniquely American freedom has been twisted and used to silence any such expressions in the utopian task of absolute inclusion.
The left seems to view any vestige of Christianity – no matter how slight – as an outright endorsement of the faith. Meanwhile, students are subjected to lessons detailing just about any other religion in the name of multiculturalism.
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At the same time as they are removing Christianity from the classrooms , the governments of the West are promoting Islam by making special concessions for muslims such as prayer rooms, separate swimming facilities, HALAL foods in canteens and tuck shops,and printed literature LYING about the ” peaceful spread” of islam in history lessons and literature. Obama is promoting this Islamisation in the Education system in all western countries, here in Australia also with our Obamaphile Prime Minister..
Good, good, good. This woman is fighting this anti-Christian bigotry from a New York public school. I pray she’ll win for the sake of our God-given First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Just in case Christian ‘believers’ missed it: CHRISTIANITY is under attack!!!
It’s not Muslims or Buddhists or whatever, ONLY CHRISTIANS are under attack by the usurper, the Socialist Obama government, in this instance: The Government indoctrination/detention centers euphemistically known as ‘public schools’.
Can ANYONE explain to me why the majority of Americans who claim to be Christian continue to send their easily influenced children to these centers?
When they could home school!
You Christians are not under attack simply because people do not believe in your fairy tales. This generation above all others is more in-tune to reality. The computer has taught them to separate fact from fiction. NO ONE has a right to push religion onto a kid. Especially schools and teachers. Religious parents are the only ones that can get away with it. Trying to push a kid today into believing that mythological devils angles minions and gods that fly around is reality is ridiculous. The bible is a story book people!! You are free to believe in fairy tales but you ARE NOT FREE to push it onto others that don’t want it. Twisting a kids mind is child abuse.
Child abuse? You’ve got to be kidding. Obviously you’re an atheist. That’s ok. Relish the fact that you will be nothing more than bacterial soup when your time comes since apparently you don’t believe in any sort of afterlife. Succeeding generations are more and more out of touch with life and what is right and wrong due to video games, cell phones and computers, yet here you are espousing the virtues of a computer and state that it separates fact from fiction. You’re really a piece of work if you believe that a COMPUTER teaches people to separate fact from fiction. What else can the COMPUTER teach them? Oh wait, they’re run by programs created by PEOPLE. There is plenty of fiction on the Internet. Guess what, an inspirational saying is exactly that regardless of the source and if you haven’t kept up, there is freedom of speech in this nation. Let’s eliminate quotes from MLK from the classroom. How about that? You talk about “twisting a kid’s mind”. You’re simply a lost soul angry at the world for your own existence. Drink more Kook Aid. Spread your hate elsewhere.
Schools are for education not religious indoctrination.
You don’t believe religion has played a major role in world history?
“…Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress
of grievances…
Obama is using MLK’s bible for his inauguration. Any thoughts? Any questions?
Today, after enjoying work-saving appliances, enjoying better living conditions, enjoying 8hr workdays, enjoying various luxuries, we find ourselves living with complacency. As a result some have become antithetical to the Founders, the inversion of them, aka Liberals (Libtardo-Rexus)…Semper Fi
[[[ The self-described Christian reported getting an eight-page letter detailing which materials she must take down to avoid offending anyone.]]]
If she had to take down a Christian letter… why in the world did a BIG CITY I live by in one of the schools I saw on the wall as you come in the door… a HUGE poster wanting you to vote for Obama and idiot Biden. That poster was the backdrop forf the reporter which was reporting some OTHER news… So if it was in that ONE school… think of how many OTHER schools that same poster was in… which was NOT supposed to be… then the school has the audacity to make her take her letter down…