In Lincoln, Nebraska, a woman, identified only as Jane Doe, has settled an employment discrimination lawsuit she filed against the University of Nebraska. The woman alleges that she was removed as director of a youth program when the University discovered that she was a witch. (See prior posting.) Yesterday's Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star reports that the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission had found reasonable cause to believe that religious discrimination had occurred. Plaintiff settled for $40,000, of which $10,000 will go for attorneys' fees.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Not nearly enough information on this case.
Let's start with: why is the plaintiff anonymous?
Presuemably she feared reprisal.
Anyway I don't think that witches and satanists etc are entitled to first amendment protection. They shouldn't be allowed to work with impressionable children who can be harmed by them.
This used to be the law of the land in America. I pray it will be again.
Anon, you are a complete twit, especially since you seem to equate satanist with witch. Hint - Satanists didn't even exist until the last century, and when they arrived it was as a direct and intentional distortion if Christianity, not out of paganism or wicca. But, why do I bother. Facts are irrelevant to the religious. If they weren't they wouldn't try to lump Buddhists in with "believers", claim that Jesus, Allah and Yehweh are all the same god, or that the later was the creator of the universe (hint, it wasn't Chemosh, Baal or any of his other brothers either...), or label everyone that isn't Jewish, Christian, Muslim or some other supposedly "safe" religion as a Satanist.
It was never the law of the land. It was, and always has been, a madness, possessing a small number of people, who used it as an excuse to rob, rape, beat or murder people that didn't perform the right rituals to appease their gods, or dress the right way, or read the right things, or speak with proper reverence to the priests that ran the whole con game.
"Presuemably she feared reprisal."
From someone like you, I have no doubt. The point is, she should not have any need to fear reprisals. Not from you or from anyone.
"I don't think that witches and satanists etc are entitled to first amendment protection."
Nobody cares what you think. Besides, we actually are better at observing both the spirit and the letter of the First Amendment than you are. Does that mean I can take away your First Amendment rights? Because obvioulsy, you're abusing them.
"They shouldn't be allowed to work with impressionable children..."
Same goes for Christians and any other religions. But you really are ignoring one basic fact: Witches do not proselytize, and they do not teach children unless they are their own, and even then, they make sure their own children are fully informed and able to make choices. Same with Satanists.
Do try to do a little reading on the subject before you make an olympic event out of conclusion-jumping.
How exactly would a Wiccan (witch) harm impressionable children, Anonymous?
As for whether it used to be the law, you're right. It also used to be the law that black people didn't have the right to sue or testify in courts.
If you want the law to be as it once was - simply propose a Constitutional Amendment changing the text of the First Amendment to allow what you would like it to allow.
When you convince enough people that your view is the correct one, then it might be the law.
Until then, just remember that those 'good old days' you look back on also prohibited Episcopalians, Catholics, Baptists, Quakers, Lutherans, or Calvinists from teaching children depending on what colony you lived in.
If you really want to go back to living in a nation in which each group of people keeps to themselves and doesn't mix with the others, feel free, but I don't think you'll find a whole lot of support for what is ostensibly the same argument that led to Plessy v. Ferguson.
--MD
Sarah Palin, is that you?? Little bored during your book signing??
Come on, admit it.
-American Atheist
Did Sarah actually sign any books, AA? 8^D Last I saw, courtesy of YouTube, there was an very angry large crowd of Hoosiers about to tip her bus on its side because she wouldn't come out of it and autograph the book for which they had paid about thirty bucks and then stood in the freezing night, waiting for her. And she snubbed them.
I'm sure she is. The news I saw said she had been signing but I'm guessing her hand got tired. She's due in my neck of the woods for a signing today.
-American Atheist
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