A Consent Judgment (full text) has been entered by a Louisiana federal district court in Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, (ED LA, May 28, 2008). The decree concluded that distribution of Gideon Bibles at Loranger Middle School violated the Establishment Clause. It ordered school officials "to refrain from allowing, participating in and/or encouraging the distribution of Bibles, or other religious materials, to elementary school children within the jurisdiction of the Tangipahoa Parish School System, on school property." It also awarded plaintiffs nominal damages and attorneys' fees. Yesterday's Advocate reported on the court's action. The consent decree means that school officials will not appeal to the 5th Circuit to try to overturn the district court's earlier decision finding an Establishment Clause violation. (See prior related posting).
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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And, in keeping with their history, the Gideons will move to another Louisiana school district and willfully perpetrate another violation of the Establishment clause.
And then they'll complain about the attorney's fees being awarded to the successful plaintiffs, claiming they're getting a "windfall".
Here's a hint: if you want the ACLU et. al. to stop profiting from Establishment clause violations, stop violating the Establishment clause.
Too bad it was just nominal damages and attorney's fees. A big punitive damages award might give the next school district something to think about.
Which religion are the Gideons and the Tangipaha School guilty of establishing?
patrick,
Christianity.
Fire away, because I'm sure you have something you're going after here.
Well, technically it would be more like the, "promotion of the establishment of", kind of like the sort of reaction you might get from reasonable people if some school some place brought in racists to hand out books promoting the repeal of the 13th amendment, on some grounds that most parents at some school where white, and thus "wouldn't mind" if the nation had a "white" agenda.
It hardly matters that half the people in this country don't understand their own fracking countries history well enough to see the, "it was established on Christian values", BS as *BS*, or at least a horrible exaggeration. I mean seriously, you want to argue that, then when are we going to oust all the "non-Christians", you know, the ones that stayed in Europe and kept oppressing people's faith, while the "true Christians" fled to the Americas. Oh, what, you mean it was Christians over there too? Well, then how the frack are we based on their "values", when their "values" couldn't even be sufficiently reconciled to prevent people leaving en-mass to risk death and deprivation at sea, for months, to get away from it, and not "all" of those doing so where even Christians. What matters is that some very bright people, who spent their entire lives first fleeing from, then fighting off, people whose governments where run **as much** by the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons of their time, found the church, the involvement of those claiming authority via the church, and governments dedicated to **serving** the interests of the church before the life, liberty and happiness (or at least pursuit of such) of its own people, as one of the single most bloody, mindless, dangerous, corrupt and ignorance edifices ever invented, and didn't want to see the same again.
We have done real well. Just look at the current candidates, not one babbling about how godly they are compar... Hmm, ok, no government run church chari... Huh, ok, lets try this again, no special groups of paramilitary people who claim god is more important than the natio... Oh, hell!! I give up. Just pick one of the 10,000 fracking Christian churches to grant total ideological control over the government and let them start shooting at each other over the unfairness of who got picked. I am getting tired of all the complaining about how it everyone else's fault that state X's believers passed some law to allows Y, but not Z, while the other state is passing laws, also from religious people to allow Q, but not ban G, P and S, so they are going to burn in hell, and its all "my" fault, because I think they are all nuttier than an almond farm and their mythology was all made up, never mind that I have a) no power, b) no influence, c) almost no money, d) no famous relatives, e) no political connections, and f) no 1 million+ congregations to write letters to my congressman for me demanding that we ban nail polish because it promotes sin, or some idiot nonsense. Yep, all my fault, and the fault of the other maybe 100,000 "official" non-believers in the country...
Yep, nothing at all wrong with promoting the "official" inclusion of Christianity or any other religion into the government. Nothing at all...
My main problem with your post, kagehi, is that almonds are good for you.
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