Easter Candy Ban May Have a Bitter Ending for School
I'm sure getting tired of our Christian kids being discriminated against.
(AgapePress) - The mother of a North Carolina second-grader is threatening to sue a public elementary school for prohibiting the boy from passing out Easter candy displaying religious messages.
Natalya Hill alleges her son Robert was barred from handing out Easter candy with an attached religious message to his classmates at Leesville Elementary School in Raleigh. Hills' attorney, Delia Van Loenen with the Alliance Defense Fund, has penned and sent a letter to the school demanding that it end its "censorship of student religious expression."
According to Van Loenen, the youngster was told he could not distribute the candy during class time, at lunch, or even during recess. The attorney says that violates the U.S. Constitution.
"The school needs to know that the students have a right to religious expression -- that's protected under the First Amendment," Van Loenen says. " And basically the school has treated this student's religious speech as second-class speech, and it's a blatant violation of his constitutional rights."
Van Loenen says the school has yet to respond to the letter demanding that the student's free-speech rights be restored. "I am assuming that that is probably why they have forbidden this student from passing out candy," he says, "because they think there's going to be some kind of violation of the so-called 'separation of church and state.'"
Principal Edward Gainor would not comment on the alleged incident.
posted by Steve | 4/25/2006 08:01:00 AM
2 Comments:
http://www.newsobserver.com/682/story/431542.html has a more balanced writeup of this incident. How would you feel if an Islamic kid was handing out candy identifying various colors with the teachings of Mohammed?
I believe that during Ramadan, they do hand out candy...and I have no problem with that.
The Constitution of the United States gives Freedom of Religion to Everyone. That means exactly that...EVERYONE.
Do I agree with the Muslim theology? No, I do not. But I do not have the right to deny someone of his or her freedom of religion just because I don't agree with it. That (denying freedom of religion) is just what the secularist and ACLU want to do to all of us.
You see, I'm in tune with God and know that the message of His free gift of salvation, given to us on the Cross, by Jesus, to all mankind, is a message that will stand on it's own merits. God only needs me to present His message, and He will do the rest.
Read the First Amendment and try to understand what it says.
Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Post a Comment
<< Home