Posted on 01/18/2017 7:36:28 PM PST by Coleus
The law was passed in 1919 under pressure from the Ku Klux Klan
A nun in Nebraska who teaches in a secondary school has been told that she is not allowed to wear her habit in the classroom. 37-year-old, Sister Madeleine Miller, was shocked to learn that, under a little-known law nearly a century old, habits were banned. The vaguely worded ban prohibits teachers from wearing any sort of religious clothing, from burqas to yarmulkes. “I could have been arrested, jailed, fined or had my license taken away if I had tried to teach,” Miller said on Tuesday.
Now, state lawmakers are looking to end the ban, which was passed in 1919 under pressure from the Ku Klux Klan amid a national wave of anti-Catholic sentiment.
The law is rarely enforced but came to the attention of the senator whose district includes Norfolk Public Schools, where Miller had hoped to work. Miller said a school administrator told her the district would be happy to hire her, but she couldn’t wear her habit in class. Thirty-six states had adopted similar bans on religious garb at various points, but Nebraska and Pennsylvania are the only ones that have yet to repeal them, said Speaker of the Legislature Jim Scheer, sponsor of the repeal bill.
Oregon abolished its ban in 2010.
Scheer, who spent nearly two decades serving on a local school board, said he had no idea the ban was still in place but argued that it violates teachers’ free-speech rights. Nebraska is also struggling to fill teacher shortages this year in 18 different fields, according to the state Department of Education. “This isn’t virgin turf I’m tilling here,” said Scheer, of Norfolk. “We’re just one of the last ones.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
In other words, the law was passed in 1919 under pressure from DEMOCRATS from the Ku Klux Klan...Also I wonder if judge hugo black was behind this?
N. Dakota has a similar law.
How convenient.
Just in time for burka teachers to come along.
I can definitely see Democrats of 2017 rallying around to preserve this KKK law — “separation of church and state” or some such rot. They love that stuff.
Why do we allow Christianity to be banned and not satanism and Marxism and Socialism (atheism/moral relativism). All are religions! The ONLY rational “faith” based on Natural Law (science/biology) is Christianity which created the Age of Reason, Modern Science and the US Constitution and “Justice” system. We need to put Virtue BACK INTO JUSTICE. YESTERDAY!!!!
We have to take back the public schools, and put back Classical Christian curricula which educated the children in USA for 140 years when they had Common Sense and understood Natural Law with only 4 years, if that, of “education”.. The communist John Dewey destroyed curricula in 1930 to embed behaviorism and conditioning to destroy the Virtue and Minds of our children (which he did).
There is only ONE “faith” that is in line with “Laws of Nature and nature’s God” and it is Christianity....and so it is the ONLY faith that can be promoted in the public schools and public square. Not an individual “church”, but the philosophy of the USA Constitution-—Lockean (Christian) ideas of private property rights and Natural Laws and Natural Duties (raising own children).
All laws that are antithetical to the Constitution (those that promote socialism and Marxism are unconstitutional and can NOT be put into “rules and regulations”. We have to get rid of all the evil, unjust Marxist “laws” which are “null and void” by definition.
Any law that promotes the vice of baby=killing and sodomizing others (behaviors learned by child abuse and neglect) are “null and void” and have to be removed immediately. As Cicero stated when a Just Law promotes vice and evil it will collapse civil society. (Justice is the queen of Virtue and is only based on Christian Ethics.)
We have to ABOLISH the government schools. Only by establishing private control of education can we put back Classical Christian curricula and keep it.
So does Pennsylvania—yes, William Penn’s “holy experiment”—and that statute includes religious jewelry.
Mrs. L is a frequent lawbreaker.
Betsy DeVos will do it. Hang in there.
lemme guess, burkas get a free pass though...
You’re so big on Christian ethics one might almost think Jesus was in there.
Alas, I just hollered for Him and didn’t see Him in there.
This is one of the more ironic ironies of the reformation churches. They didn’t like Rome running a state church. So they ran one themselves. So who was worse?
The answer can NOT look like “state church” if we want Jesus, not Caesar, to be the church’s head.
If there is to be a secular law that lets any sort of mainstream faith expression through without the burqas, it’s going to have to state a set of tenets that the faith needs to support, and tie those to American constitutional values.
Hi, HiTech, always nice to have you in the discussion.
I didn’t understand this one. You don’t see Jesus in Christian Ethics? What do you mean by that?
It’s when people behave in a shamelessly unethical manner that you can see the Real Absence of Jesus.
Have you tried cleaning your glasses!
yes by golly she’ll be thrown in prison for wearing a habit- in the meantime our dear leader just let a MALE out of prison for stealing classified information and he also released a MASS BOMBER who helped plant hundreds of bombs - and he has let TERRORISTS out of guantanamo- the worst of the worst- terrorist animals who have vowed to kill Americans- But by golly don’t let a religious woman wear clothing to depict her devotion to her religion-
Guess it’s time for her to change her teaching “habits”. /sarc
I’ve heard that a Klansman (Democrat) Supreme Court Justice was behind the denial of public funds for school buses to Catholic schools.
Tell them you are muslim and it is a “headscarf”.
No issue with this, as long as it’s applied consistently and fairly across the board to other religious dress as well, particularly burqas and muslim clothing items.
If there aren't any extra issues (e.g. exposure/indecency, or covering the face, which produces a communications challenge and possibly a security risk) I find it hard to see how the state can regulate dress in this way.
Unless the schools want to have uniforms, which is also "expressive" of the institution itself, and which I would support if it's across-the-board.
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