To: Tax-chick
Nobody can say or do anything, if it's even vaguely related to a religious or moral belief, that somebody else doesn't like." Washburn University is a public school. No governmental organization has any place whatsoever in financing or supporting art work denigrating a particular religion, or religion in general.
If the courts are going to follow the incorporation doctrine and apply the first amendment to the states, then we would be fools to let them apply a "first amendment" that reads "nobody shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, except that it's okay to use tax dollars to trash Catholicism".
14 posted on
03/03/2004 11:00:56 AM PST by
Campion
To: Campion
I think that's signalling acceptance of an interpretation that's totally different from the intent of the Amendment, and is also detrimental to religious exercise. There's no question that this is an outrage, but it should be fought out with the administration, the alumni (usually on the side of good taste, unless football is involved) or through the state legislature. Submitting every dispute to the Federal courts is a big mistake ... that's why they think they're God.
20 posted on
03/03/2004 4:31:51 PM PST by
Tax-chick
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