Bruce Howe Hendricks
Smiting the non-Musloids for her Kenyan master.
Posted on 04/21/2020 6:25:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
A court awarded an atheist group approximately $456,000 after they won a years-long lawsuit against a South Carolina school district for holding graduation ceremonies with prayer and hymns.
Last year, the American Humanist Association won a lawsuit against Greenville County School District for their practice of holding graduation ceremonies with sectarian religious elements.
The U.S. District Court for South Carolina awarded AHA $446,466 in attorney fees and $9,776 in other expenses on Tuesday, which was below the previous requested amount of $584,026.
Greenville County Schools told local media outlet Fox Carolina that they are probably going to appeal both the fee and decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
“Throughout this case, the School District has argued that students, like other citizens, have the right to free speech, including that of a religious nature,” stated the school district.
“On this main point, Greenville County Schools successfully convinced the Court to uphold its consistent position on the central issue of protecting student speech and supported the district’s belief that students should be allowed to speak from a religious or secular perspective at a graduation.”
Greenville added that they “will continue to remain committed to protecting students’ rights to free speech, while remaining neutral to religion.”
In 2013, the AHA sued the school district on behalf of an anonymous family whose child attended a graduation ceremony that featured Christian prayers delivered by students and religious music.
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Absurd! Flush all the communists... Free compulsory one-way tickets to China, Cuba, Yemen, or North Korea...
Freedom of Religion, NOT Freedom from Religion
An appeal should end that ather quickly.
So the one atheist family living in greenville files a suit against the other 99.99%. Wow. Maybe move to nyc? This will be overturned.
My sister worked in the greenville county school system as an 8th grade teacher for 32 years. She prayed with her students literally every day. Do the math. Never one complaint. Ever.
This was a government school, under the auspices of the US Department of Education, was it not? Is it not the stance of the US government, to not proscribe to any one religious ideology, if it cannot proscribe to them all?
Nothing “communist” about that, is there?
“Freedom of religion” means all, not just your chosen fraction of christendom.
For example, the Wiccan religion has been incorporated onto the military chaplain’s manual since 1976. ( And no, they are not satanists.)
But i bet a lot of you are apoplectic at reading this. Just imagine, your Puritanical forebears hung a 20 year old woman 20 years after landing at Plymouth Rock, labeling her a witch.
Excuse me, yes they are!
Allowing religions like Wiccans into the chaplaincy is what brought it down.
Under no circumstances does this violate the 1st Amendment.
This is absurd.
Cuba’s to close.
Don’t want them anywhere near the American continent.
Who do you think you are? Do you know the family histories of any of these people? They are not responsible for what happened in Salem over 300 years ago. It is so pathetic that G-d haters always go back to the Witch Trials to deride and insult Christianity. There are plenty of crimes in Church history to use as hammers which with to smash her to pieces. So what? It is what it is. But in the broad, historical view, as terrible as Christianity has been at times, it has also been the source of magnificent achievements and progress. The question to ask is ”How did that happen?” It was the Biblical view: the Judeo-Christian World View that produced the glories of Western Civilization in which, by the way, we are all, including you, so comfortably and securely ensconced. The Torah explicitly forbids, witchcraft, and the penalty prescribed is death. However the threshold for adjudicating such a sentence was so high that it was rarely, if ever carried out. The intent of the Torah is not to kill witches, but to not engage in witchcraft to begin with. A prayer by a Christian, at a football game, in a Christian country is a threat to no one.
The First Amendment does not mandate separation of church and state, or preclude state involvement with religion. It merely takes the question of the establishment of religions out of the federal jurisdiction, leaving it up to the states. Constitutionally, the level of state involvement in religion—including the establishment of a state religion—is up to the several states and the federal government should mind their own business.
Bruce Howe Hendricks
Smiting the non-Musloids for her Kenyan master.
All because they took God out of schools.
Bruce???
Odd name for a female.
Satan wins another round- but still loses the final war
When does the shooting war start?
Constitution says that justices changed this many years ago
Keep appealing until every predator in the evil American Humanist Association dies of old age. These people disgust me.
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