[Paul Ross]

Bump for Freedom!

[Semper Paratus]

Contemp of Court!
The contempt is well deserved.

[princess leah]

This is why we need to get the Senate back in Republican hands - to get rid of these liberal judges and put good, wise judges on the benches all over our nation!

[princess leah]

This is why we need to get the Senate back in Republican hands - to get rid of these liberal judges and put good, wise judges on the benches all over our nation!

[LibertarianLiz]

Deveny, an atheist, didn’t attend the graduation Thursday night at the Civic Center in Charleston. He stayed home.
“I have no use for that pretentious, self- congratulatory ceremony,” he said. “To me, this ruling is much more significant.”

Okay, so he stopped the other students from having a prayer at a ceremony he had no intention of ever attending?

[AppyPappy]

If they had told us we couldn't recite "Mary Had A Little Lamb" at graduation, we would have done it or died.

[r9etb]

Deveny, an atheist, didn’t attend the graduation Thursday night at the Civic Center in Charleston. He stayed home.

“I have no use for that pretentious, self-congratulatory ceremony,” he said. “To me, this ruling is much more significant.”

Had no plans to go to the party, but crapped in the punchbowl anyway. And this little quote is proof that "self-congratulation" is not limited to graduation ceremonies.

What a hypocritical little prig.

[Hacksaw]

Deveny, an atheist, didn’t attend the graduation Thursday night at the Civic Center in Charleston. He stayed home. “I have no use for that pretentious, self- congratulatory ceremony,” he said. “To me, this ruling is much more significant.”

Amazing. The guy doesn't even attend the ceremony that he filed suit against to get a prayer censored. This is more proof that a significant number of atheists are not merely content in their own beliefs, they have the need to meddle in other people's lives.

But at least the students showed him and the judge what they could do with the ruling. I always enjoy reading about open defiance of this non consitutional rulings.

[Ahban]

Down with the Black-Robed tyrants! Up with Liberty and Freedom!

[EdReform]

Bump!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

The public interest weighs in favor of protecting a student’s First Amendment right to be free from the unwanted intrusion of religion at a school-sponsored graduation,” Copenhaver wrote in the 14-page opinion.

So in the interest of freedom of speech, people have a right to be free from the freedom of speech.  This reminds me of Twodees assertion that states have the right of secession because they have no rights.

[TomGuy]

Another blow for freedom; another strike against PC.

Spontaneous? Nah, some of those kids plotted it. Reminds me of a class I taught. I was ordered by the Superintendent to NOT allow students to read a certain book in class. I informed the students. Within a week, they had all read it on their own. I laughed--I followed the supt's orders and they read the book anyway--on their own! Mission accomplished!

[Still Using Air]

“This shows that one person can make a difference even when the majority is against you.”

  Yo, dude, you're probably one of those who believes we are a democracy (as opposed to a Constitutional Republic), don't you know that the mob rules, so you're out of order, sit down.

[connectthedots]

These things hardly ever work out the way the anti-Christian thugs want.

[xrp]

While I applaud the students and parents for their act of defiance to give thanks to the Lord, there is one thing disturbing in this article:

Students criticized the judge’s decision. “It’s democracy. It needs to be that majority rules,” said Justin Waybright, who graduated Thursday night.

Majority rule is very dangerous. Majority rule is mob rule. Majority rule could be 10 people, 9 of them Ku Klux Klan members and 1 black man voting on who is to be hanged. Let's hope this student comes to realise this and that the United States is a Republic based on LAW and not a "democracy", which is tyranny of the masses.

[3catsanadog]

Oh the horror! Round up these praying kids and send them to sensitivity and tolerance seminars.

And the doofus who whined about the praying didn't attend anyway. Coward.

Bravo, bravo to the kids at St. Albans!

[lepton]

Hmmmm. In a place called "St. Albans".

[JediGirl]

bump for later reading

[LarryLied]

Andrew Schneider was behind this lawsuit against prayer. While he doesn't like religion mentioned in a school setting, he defends other speech:

Tinker Days to focus on freedom of speech

By Christina McGough and Jessica Karmasek
Staff Writer
The Daily Athenaeum

In 1969, John Tinker, high school student, took his case on free speech in time of war all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Now, over thirty years later, southern West Virginia student Katie Sierra, 15, has had to leave her school over the same issue.

To educate others on the first amendment, Tinker and Sierra, along with Andrew Schneider, executive director of the West Virginia ACLU, have created Tinker Days. Tinker Days consists of traveling to various schools in West Virginia to share their stories and provide inspiration for students to take a stand. They visited West Virginia University Wednesday night to do just that.

Sierra, studying anarchism for the past year and a half, has always known that she was passionate about world peace without the use of military force, despite the lack of support from her peers. “It’s important to stand up for what you believe in. It just feels like the right thing to do,” Sierra said.

Sierra began her fight for free expression by wearing anti-war T-shirts to school. She was suspended and upon her return, fellow students assaulted her. The school did not pursue any punishment for the attackers’ actions. This will be part of Sierra’s case in the summer to contest the school’s decision of not allowing her to express her views.

Supporting her will be John Tinker. He was expelled from school during the Vietnam War for wearing black wristbands to protest the war. After winning his case, Tinker continues to speak out against the killing of innocent people.

“I’m opposed to Sept. 11, but I’m also opposed to how we’ve dealt with it. We haven’t dealt with it,” Tinker said.

Tinker also expressed his feelings on the West Virginia University free speech zone.

“I thought that the free speech zone was bound with the borders of Mexico and Canada,” he said.

Both activists agreed that America is about the free exchange of ideas, and the American flag needs to represent freedom. In closing, Mary Bess, president of WVU ACLU, stated the organization’s slogan: “We all have the right not to remain silent.”

[jwalsh07]

“The public interest weighs in favor of protecting a student’s First Amendment right to be free from the unwanted intrusion of religion at a school-sponsored graduation,” Copenhaver wrote in the 14-page opinion.

There is no such "right" in the Constitution. There is a right to freely "exercise" your religion in the public square.

The judge is contemptible and the students are to be admired and applauded. The students are free to pray in school any time they want absent a disruption of class and direction by school officials.