Posted on 05/15/2007 3:41:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
Dozens of students at three Sacramento, California, area public schools were suspended when they took a stand against a pro-homosexual event -- the "Day of Silence," which was observed nationwide late last month.
In the Sacramento area, an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 students chose to stay home instead of being confronted with the pro-homosexual message on the Day of Silence. But nearly 50 students who did attend school that day wore clothing and distributed literature highlighting the dangers of homosexuality. Some of these students were sent home, some were suspended, and others were given "Saturday school."
Brad Dacus is president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), which is working to clear the offenses from the students' records. "We're hopeful that we'll be able to reach a positive resolution without having to file a lawsuit. We're still at the early stages," he says.
"Unfortunately, California is like many parts of the country," Dacus points out. "School districts and administrators are often very dogmatic about their liberal agendas," he says.
The head of PJI believes the suspension of students who chose to counter the homosexual message was a clear violation of the Constitution of the United States. "The Constitution protects students from being discriminated against simply because the school district doesn't like what they say or the fact that what they say comes from the Bible," he asserts.
Dacus says the attorneys at PJI are working to have the suspensions rescinded. If that does not happen, however, he says legal action will be necessary, and this case could possibly wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Well, they apparently all had the day of silence and THAT’S as good a reason as any. Of course getting the kids in trouble is just additional.
The god of liberalism is a jealous god.
Not all schools had it, maybe in California, but not everywhere else.
The kids getting in trobule is appalling, no doubt about it.
Our local school had it and about 6 kids kept quiet for the day. Some did just so the teachers wouldn’t call on them in class. Otherwise, nobody really cared.
Our local school didn’t have it.
I don’t live in California, so while it may be the best thing to do there, it is not the case everywhere else, regarless of your opinion.
Then you are playing right into their hands. I refuse to be speechless on a "Day of Silence" for homo activism.
Yikes - I totally missed that idea.
It should just be ignored. Ignoring them seems to work. Last year there were 5 or 6 schools on the list in this area.......this year only 2 and one I know for a fact had no one bothering with it, and won’t be on the list next year.
Sue for injunctive relief (equal treatment required, yearly instruction of administrative staff in the requirements of the First Amendment, etc.) and, most importantly, imposing an on-going monitoring process to insure compliance with the injunctive order.
With the plaintiffs’ attorneys being able to choose a significant minority of the compliance commmittee seats. Everyone on the compliance committee to be paid for their diligent labor. By the school districts in question.
I’d love to serve on such a committee and retire with a yacht named “Compliance”.
Individual board members, principals, administrators, etc. don’t worry about you getting injunctive relief. No personal loss, years to get, etc.
Ask for a few million, go personal against the individual board members, principals, administrators, etc.as well as against the district, as they “exceeded their legal authority,” move to sever their defense from that of the districts as they may have opposing interests, etc.
Then they have to pay their own lawyers, who tell them “....well, you never know what a jury that thinks school taxes are too high and the schools are indiscipline's and out of control are going to do.....”
Then they settle for a sealed $25,000 per student paid out in four years to help with college... and loads of $ to the lawyer of record.... and they settle before lunch!
I may not know much case law in the state systems, but I pound on the table just fine... and when not enjoined by some anti-first ammemdment judge, I give better interviews than Jessie Jackson ever did on his best day!
I used to study Old Racehorse Haynes in Houston and Jim Bob Brown up in Canyon, Near Amarillo.
When ever they tried a capitol case or a plaintif’s claim for more than $10,000,000, every lawyer within 100 miles was there, becase “The School Was About To Be In.” There were no motel rooms availavle so every small camper in town was rented as a combination sleepin working place.
Liberal Democrats are out to silence you!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833390/posts
Were are the parents?
One of the reasons I did and do not want my kids in CA schools. I would have been kicking ass’s already.
>>> “Show me just what Mohammed..... <<<<
So tell us all. Is any of this happening in any country were the people follow Mohammed? Gee Can you name any Middle eastern country which supports sodomites?
Hmm. I think there is one.
Or do you just like to go around spreading hate. Recruiting for the extremist & help kill Our GIs
Public entities in California are required by statute to indemnify public employees for attorney fees and damages incurred within the course and scope of their employment, unless it involved a willful AND malicious tort, in which case MAYBE they won’t be indemnified. So severance doesn’t work.
It’s like an insurance company defending an insured under a reservation of rights clause, only insurance companies aren’t generous and California public entities are. AFAIK, public entity employers here always, always, eat the defense fees, and only rarely seek reimbursement from public employee defendants for damages involving willful and malicious torts by the employee.
And California public entities are allowed to indemnify their employees for punitive damages awards incurred within the course and scope of their employment. They are less generous in that regard, with many exceptions. Steve Yagman in L.A. lost a federal action challenging the City of L.A.’s blanket policy of always indemnifying police officers for punitive damages awards in excessive force cases.
Did he hot THAt nail on the head.! I learn in gradiate school fifty years ago that there is nothing liberal-minded about Liberals.
You just gave me an idea for the name of the party of degeneracy:
Degeneracrats
Allow me to take the position of a sarcastic pain in the ass. If you want to spend an entire day devoted to a sexual practice shared by 3 percent of the population, please allow me to expand the horizons of the student population. Did you know that oral sex was once considered against the law? In fact, I’ll bet that somewhere out there oral sex is still included in the law books as a sodomy offense. I’ll also bet that more than 3 percent of the population regularly partakes of this sexual activity. Therefore, I proclaim March 16, 2008, as the first annual Speak Out for Fellatio Today demonstrations to be held in every high school in the land. The students who are part of SOFT will respond to all questions and interactions by forming a rounded “o” with their lips. (This is better than the alternative... students marching down the halls chanting, “What do we want?.... Fellatio!... When do we want it?... Now!”) We should follow up with other advocacy days on behalf of masturbation, French kissing, toe sucking, a desire for ladies underwear, and the wide variety of human sexual experiences. A day of silence for hetereosexual couples whose preschool children insist on disturbing opportunities for lovemaking is especially needed.
Won’t you please help?
clever!!!
it’s a joke. K
Just cause you have a 10,000 times bigger chance of catching AIDS doesn’t mean its not a healthy lifestyle. Imagine if tobacco shortened your life 20 years??
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