High School Cheerleaders in Trouble for Bible Verse Banners - Page 7

Alex · 10-01-2009, 11:01 AM

That's not what the school district's statement said. It was explaining that they wouldn't allow Christian messages just like they wouldn't allow other religious messages.

mousepod · 10-01-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

That's not what the school district's statement said. It was explaining that they wouldn't allow Christian messages just like they wouldn't allow other religious messages.

You're right, Alex. I misread the context of the quote.

Alex · 10-01-2009, 11:10 AM

It didn't help that the article had the "no Christian stuff" part of the statement half an article away from the "no non-Christian stuff" part.

Strangler Lewis · 10-01-2009, 11:28 AM

If the private or the public employer censors disruptive shouts of "Jesus Saves!" but not "Forty F*ckin' Niners!," it can expect to be sued for religious discrimination under state and federal civil rights laws.

Ghoulish Delight · 10-01-2009, 11:31 AM

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If the private or the public employer censors disruptive shouts of "Jesus Saves!" but not "Forty F*ckin' Niners!," he can expect to be sued for religious discrimination under state and federal civil rights laws.

Fair enough, it's not a perfect analogy. However my point still stands that just because a school is a public institution, that doesn't mean they are required to allow you the same latitude you have as if you are in a park or on the street.

Ghoulish Delight · 10-01-2009, 01:28 PM

Which is no different than how it would be handled in a private company...and entirely different than it would be handled on a public street.

lashbear · 10-01-2009, 05:17 PM

Jazzman: OK you got me there

I'd still like to see a team run through a banner saying "God is a myth" and see what reaction they get.

Kevy Baby · 10-01-2009, 07:41 PM

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Jazzman: OK you got me there

I'd still like to see a team run through a banner saying "God is a myth" and see what reaction they get.

Especially if the banner was made out of 3/4" plywood

flippyshark · 10-01-2009, 08:37 PM

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Jazzman: OK you got me there

I'd still like to see a team run through a banner saying "God is a myth" and see what reaction they get.

In a recent satire, Richard Dawkins wrote a pastiche of P.G. Wodehouse, in which the Bertie Wooster equivalent sees the infamous bus slogan ("There is no God, so just relax and enjoy life" - that one prompted a heated thread here some time ago) and garbles it while trying to repeat it to the Jeeves character:

"There's no bally God, so put a sock in it and have a gargle with the lads"

Truly T-shirt worthy.

10-01-2009, 11:01 AM	#1
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	That's not what the school district's statement said. It was explaining that they wouldn't allow Christian messages just like they wouldn't allow other religious messages.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	It didn't help that the article had the "no Christian stuff" part of the statement half an article away from the "no non-Christian stuff" part.
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