In Korea, the Seoul High Court has reversed a trial court's award of damages to a student who, in 2004, was expelled from his Christian high school after he refused to attend required chapel services. Friday's Korea Times reports that Kang We-suck announced his refusal to attend chapel at Daegwang High School though an announcement over the school's loudspeakers and at a one-person rally in front of the school. Kang claimed that the school infringed his freedom of religion and inflicted mental suffering on him by expelling him. The High Court disagreed.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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a private parochial school has a right to its rules and to expect students to abide by its rules --just as BJU had a right to its beliefs on interracial marriage and dating.
The college I attended required chapel attendance.
If you join the Army, some of your "rights" to do whatever you wish and pursue happiness any way you wish WILL be infringed upon. You voluntarily choose your schools and churches and your branch of military service --they may make laws that the nation itself would not make for the public citizen.
If you don't want to follow the rules of an organization, don't join.
Same with the Boy Scouts --if you don't like their religious beliefs and moral standards, don't join.
The difference here is one of free choice, Barb. College students may choose their colleges. Adults freely choose their own military careers. For those who don't like Boy Scouts, Spiral Scouts is a free option.
The student had none.
Why do you say he had no choice but to attend that school? that's not what the article says.
Oops..you're right. I missed that the first time.
My apologies.
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