Posted on 01/31/2023 6:44:25 PM PST by marshmallow
A Mississippi school district has agreed to change a policy banning political or religious speech that led to a third-grade student being barred from wearing a face mask with the message “Jesus Loves Me.”
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Simpson County School District prohibited elementary school student Lydia Booth from wearing the face mask because of its Christian message.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal nonprofit specializing in religious freedom cases that represented Booth, announced Wednesday that the school district has reversed its decision and will now allow the child to wear her “Jesus Loves Me” face mask as part of a settlement agreement ending a federal lawsuit.
“No student should be singled out for peacefully expressing her religious beliefs,” said ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom. Today’s students will be tomorrow’s legislators, judges, educators and voters. That’s why it’s so important that public schools demonstrate the First Amendment values they are supposed to be teaching to students.”
In November 2020, the ADF filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Booth family in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
The litigation stemmed from an incident on Oct. 13, 2020, in which school officials told the then-third-grade student that she was not allowed to wear a face mask with the statement “Jesus Loves Me” because the school system prohibited face masks that had religious or political messages on them.
“Defendants allow students at SCS to wear masks and other clothing with a wide variety of expressive messages during school, including ‘Black Lives Matter’ and masks and shirts promoting many sports teams,” read the suit.
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I’m sure they won’t say a thing if kids wear BLM, Islamic or gay flag face masks.
Typical modern day judicial time frame. Resolution and judgment after it doesn’t matter anymore.
Delay is the game.
I, of course, have seen BLM face masks on store clerks and others. “Political” but I would contend anti-religious, too.
And decidedly offensive to me.
Why are they wearing masks?
Wear a face mask that says “Islam is right about women”.
Or a face mask saying “Islam is right about gays.” For an added touch you could put a picture of a tall building on the mask.
The entire seventy-year-old rotten edifice of scotus’ “separation of church and state” must come down.
As with abortion and fag marriage, it is constitutional nonsense.
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