Atheist teen wins lawsuit against school (conclusion)

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rootb33r

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Sorry if OFN... just saw it on CNN this morning at the gym.

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Conclusion of the lawsuit: (part of the actual interview):
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In a lawsuit filed by a 16-year old Rhode Island girl, a federal judge has ruled that a prayer that has been in Cranston High School West for 49 years had to be covered.

Atheist Jessica Ahlquist has been battling since 2010 to get an 8-foot banner removed from her high school auditorium. It contains a prayer that a student wrote in 1963.

The teenager has been dealing with consequences from Cranston, a highly Roman Catholic city. She has been receiving threats from social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, and had been receiving police escorts to classes. She had planned to take time off from school, but according to WPRO News, Ahlquist posted on Twitter that she plans to graduate from Cranston High School West in 2013.
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Teen atheist Jessica Ahlquist wins prayer lawsuit against high school (VIDEO) | Nation | NewJerseyNewsroom.com -- Your State. Your News.
 
The lawyers won. Now the school can either cough up their 170k in fees or fight it which will cost them half a million dollars.

I noticed that no wealthy religious organization is lifting a finger to help them. As a non believer myself, this embarasses me because this selfish action is going to hurt alot of people. Goverment has all kinds of prayers on their walls. Not sure why this wasn't ruled the other way.
 
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BadMoFo said:
^^ this
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So it's cool for public institutions to blatantly push religion in a supposedly a-religious state affairs without being able to fight back?


By the way, the worst part of this was that a state representative called the girl an "evil little thing."

Who the fuck does that? Way to represent your constituents, representative.
 
this bitch is thinkin "haha fuckers i win, i win AND ill stick around for 2 more years to rub it in"
 
rootb33r said:
So it's cool for public institutions to blatantly push religion in a supposedly a-religious state affairs without being able to fight back?


By the way, the worst part of this was that a state representative called the girl an "evil little thing."

Who the fuck does that? Way to represent your constituents, representative.
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there are bigger problems than a sentence or two written by a student being placed on the wall, who's rights are being infringed here? If you ask me it's the freedom of expression of the student that had written the prayer. Doesn't he or she have the right to express their beliefs? How is it impacting you? or her? or anyone else at the school that there is a piece of cloth (or whatever) on the wall with words on it?

it's not sponsoring an official state religion, it's not "pushing religion"...you're going to need to illustrate how this equates with the state sponsoring Christianity.

atheists are retards
overly religious people are retards

you are both guilty as the other
 
Vanster said:
It violates the constitution, simple as that.
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It does but so does the pledge of allegiance and in god we trust. Why hold some poor local school system accountable when our federal government doesn't hold itself accountable? Belive me i would love a true separation of church and state. Its just not gonna happen in our ifetimes
 
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