CA: Appeals court says public libraries can bar religious services

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 9/20/06 | David Kravets - ap

[MrEdd]

Ho Hum, Ninth Circus to be over ruled in another instance on an issue they've been over ruled on time and time again.

[Viking2002]

The 9th Circus. Destroying American heritage one tradition at a time. Something very bad needs to happen to these non-humans. I'll leave it there dangling for you.

[kromike]

I guarantee you that the 9th will find an exception for Muslims...

[Alia]

Mid-90s, I was having to battle the local "grammar" school who was preventing a Girl Scout troop from using the facility. The "God" thing was offensive to them, no doubts. They lost, we won. But obviously, only for a time.

[tubebender]

Is this the same court of appeals that said libraries must allow street bums to sleep and stink up a building???

[Maceman]

I guess that means they can bar environmental meetings too, since they are also faith based.

[Czar]

Well of course...after all, it's the Ninth Circus.

[KingKenrod]

Group A wants to meet in a library. Group B wants to meet in a library. Group A is allowed and group B is denied. The reason? Group B wants to pray. Another blatant case of discrimination based on religion brought to you by the 9th Circus. Constitutional rights guaranteed to every minority in the US are routinely denied to religious groups.

[PghBaldy]

Yet phallic art is OK http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15381 "The piece, which featured 21 brightly colored ceramic penises hanging from a clothesline, was stolen from the Boulder Public Library and replaced with an American flag on Nov. 10. The library had refused to remove the artwork, which was part of an exhibit sponsored by a local battered women’s shelter in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month."

[onedoug]

God, why would any religion want to use a government anything?

[PghBaldy]

correction- that wasn't a court case, but it would probably be allowed by this court... It seems the 1st Amendment is ONLY about some speech, and not religion.

[Amerigomag]

One can imagine the popularity of an initiative, if the process existed at the federal level, proposing that the jurisdiction of the 9th Circus extends only to the interior space of the court house in San Francisco, in which it conducts official business.

[air pappy]

why do I have this feeling I'm being choked?

[ThomasThomas]

Also from the 9th curcuit


In a decision Wednesday by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which could be used to force election officials throughout the state to require multiple-language petitions for ballot issues according to voting-rights advocates.

[muawiyah]

Bet they won't ~ but they won't do it again.

[Gone GF]

This decision won't destroy anything because it'll be overturned easily.

[Gone GF]

"I guess that means they can bar environmental meetings too, since they are also faith based."

As are many NA meetings.

[ladyinred]

Well of course! Our constitution calls for freedom FROM religion doesn't it? /sarcasm
Would Muslims be barred as well I wonder?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shouldn't the people who pay taxes to build the libraries have some say in this or do we just have to do what three perverts in San Francisco (of all places) say? This isn't America. Seig Hiel!