Appeals court blasts school district for 'double standard' against religious student groups

The nation's largest federal appeals court has put public schools across the western U.S. on notice that they cannot penalize student groups for their religious beliefs while granting secular clubs exemptions to nondiscrimination policies.

The sweeping ruling Wednesday prompted multiple partial and full concurrences, dissents and alliances, particularly on legal standing, among 11 judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

They heard the case en banc after California's San Jose Unified School District appealed a three-judge panel's ruling in favor of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

The 9-2 majority made no legal distinction between clubs that require leaders to affirm "sexual expression" being reserved for male-female marriages, a core belief in orthodox Christianity, and those that prefer or limit membership to women, Asians or Republicans – all of whom exist at Pioneer High School along with the fellowship.

A victory for 1Amnd in several points; freedom \for\ religion, free speech, freedom of association.

Unfortunately, the plea to “orthodox Christianity” falls too simplistic.
The FCA is thoroughly heterodox in its practices, such that I call it a social club and not a Christian fellowship.

Teacher Michelle Bowman, adviser to the newly recognized Satanic Temple Club, encouraged them to agitate against FCA, which endured repeated protests at its meetings that year.

That opens the door for filing a first amendment case against the school system. The government (the teacher) can not attempt to censor or prevent the excise of their first amendment rights.

Taking that action will ensure teachers understand from their role in the school DOES NOT INCLUDE being some type of state sponsored community organizers.

Yes, and since the IRS provided even the "Resolutely non-theistic" Satanic Temple with religious tax exemption, then there should be no negative distinction btwn freedoms provided for groups promoting faith-based ideology such as holds that gender is fluid, and thus biologically-based pronouns are to be censured, and formally religious orgs.

From one of its wokeism disciples (from the Council of Transexuality):

intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality...has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial...movements...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity...our aim will be to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality...are embodied and experienced." Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.

- Actual source is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/

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