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Ban on religious gifts appealed
Washington Times ^
| 1/08/04
| Delphine Soulas
Posted on 01/07/2004 11:34:45 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:12:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Lower court decisions upholding a New Jersey school district's prohibition of gifts bearing religious messages is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
The mother of a student barred from distributing to classmates pencils with the imprint "Jesus loves the little children" and religious-themed candy canes is appealing two judgments that said Daniel Walz's freedom of expression and religion were not violated.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: antichristianbias; gifts; kindergarten; rutherfordinstitute
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01/07/2004 11:34:45 PM PST
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kattracks
To: kattracks
This is stupid! All the school would have to do is have the teacher state before the class that the religious gifts were the child's own choice and the school had nothing to say about it one way or the other. This would apply to Jesus pencils, Mohammed erasers, menorah notepads, whatever.
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01/07/2004 11:41:49 PM PST
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(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
If they were satanic pencils and candy, there wouldn't be a lawsuit.
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01/08/2004 2:59:58 AM PST
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