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To: jwalsh07
Dini reworked his criteria so that it could not be read as requiring a "belief" in evolution to avoid running afoul of the free exercise clause so that he might continue to remain on the public payroll.

Oh, but I thought you disapproved of the Federal Courts being brought into it? Doesn't Dini, as part of his right to free speech, have the right to decide who he writes letters of recommendation for? And isn't the intervention of the federal government, to force someone to write a letter recommending someone, a far more egregious intrusion than a federal government preventing a school broad from adopting a certain curriculum?

309 posted on 02/20/2006 12:15:47 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Oh, but I thought you disapproved of the Federal Courts being brought into it?

I do in all cases where indivdual rights are not infringed. If your hypocrisy hunting you're hunting with an empty rifle Professor. As it happens, I would have preferred the case be resolved in the state court system. Would I have filed the case? No, I would have just told him he was an asshole just like I told my Philosophy Professor when I attended UCF.

Doesn't Dini, as part of his right to free speech, have the right to decide who he writes letters of recommendation for?

His free speech, as a public employee, ends at the free exercise clause Professor. So does yours. You take a check from the state, you live by their rules. I make my own rules.

And isn't the intervention of the federal government, to force someone to write a letter recommending someone, a far more egregious intrusion than a federal government preventing a school broad from adopting a certain curriculum?

No, if the free exercise clause was violated that is much more eggregious. Dimi changing the wording can be seen as a tacit admission that that was just what he was doing. If he was not doing that then both cases are equally eggregious.

328 posted on 02/20/2006 12:30:24 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Right Wing Professor
And isn't the intervention of the federal government, to force someone to write a letter recommending someone, a far more egregious intrusion than a federal government preventing a school broad from adopting a certain curriculum?

No one was forcing him to write any letters of recommendation. What he had to comply with is not using his position as a state employee not to require students to take his religious oaths in doing his job.

337 posted on 02/20/2006 12:38:26 PM PST by Always Right
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