Posted on 11/18/2005 9:23:45 AM PST by Jay777
SAN FRANCISCO - Christian students and parents cannot sue a school district where some seventh-graders pretended to be Muslims for three weeks during a course in world history, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the role-playing game was not a religious exercise that violated anybody’s constitutional rights.
The decision was issued one day after the U.S. House of Representatives chastised the 9th Circuit for ruling earlier this month that parents can’t sue public schools for providing information about sex. That decision “deplorably infringed on parental rights,” said the House resolution. Thursday’s decision came down in an unpublished memorandum, indicating the judges considered it routine.
They reviewed the method used by one teacher in Byron, Contra Costa County, four years ago to teach the unit on Muslim history, culture and religion that is part of the state’s seventh-grade history curriculum.
Brooke Carlin encouraged her students to play at being Muslims - adopt Muslim names, recite a line from a prayer and give up candy or television to simulate fasting, for example. Students were permitted to opt out. On the final exam they were asked to critique elements of Muslim culture.
Jonas and Tiffany Eklund sued, along with their children. San Francisco U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton dismissed the suit two years ago, saying Carlin was merely teaching and not indoctrinating. Hamilton found that the students did not engage in actual religious exercises.
The 9th Circuit upheld her decision in a five-sentence ruling, saying only that the activities weren’t “overt religious exercises” that would raise concerns under the First Amendment prohibition of “establishment of religion.”
Senior Circuit Judge Dorothy Nelson of Pasadena and Circuit Judges Johnnie Rawlinson of Las Vegas and Carlos Bea of San Francisco signed the decision.
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ping!
Fantastic! Now let's start planning the Christmas Pageant.
Has the entire country gone fricking crazy?????
Still sending your kids to gov't schools?
I agree with Mark Levin, eliminate the 9th Circus and start over!
a) move out of the state, or
b) sign over ALL parental rights over to the State because they're gonna steal 'em from you anyway.
Thank God I don't live in California...
I want to see a copy of that exam.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the role-playing game was not a religious exercise that violated anybody’s constitutional rights.
I thought perhaps you all might be interested in the latest....and I kinda think it fits in with the "Happy Holiday" "Holiday Tree" theme.
Break up the 9th Circuit.
I'm SURE the ACLU will be all over this!
...which is why my children will NOT be in a public school in 7th grade...
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Opinions Jurisdictions includes California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Can Congress just create a new 9th circuit (or a 9th, 10th and 11th) and just fire the old judges? Do you need impeachment for that?
According to Islamic law, anyone who recites the Shahada ("There is no *** but Allah and Mohammed is his *****") becomes a Muslim. That is the method of conversion.
If you were tricked into saying it, it is up to a Sharia court to decide if you are an apostate who deserves the death penalty.
Thanks for the ping. The 9th Circus is insane, and so is California. The latest is that Meathead (Rob Reiner) has enough ballot signatures to get an initiative on at the next election for increased taxes on the "rich" (which to a dem is anyone making over $30,000/year) for government-funded daycare!!! Daycare!! Can you believe it!?!?! We're f***ing nuts out here!
When this story first broke a couple of years ago, I e-mailed the ACLU at their referral address on their website and suggested they may want the case, and that it would be good for them to take, since people thought they just went after Christianity. I was SO surprised that they never replied...
If they recited the shahada they can be considered converts to islam.
Oh and you know what the penalty for leaving islam is.
Wonder if they explained that to these kids.
"Can Congress just create a new 9th circuit (or a 9th, 10th and 11th) and just fire the old judges? Do you need impeachment for that?"
that's above my paygrade. LOL
but according to Mark Levin they could eliminate it and start over...
they're already talking about splitting the 9th Circus.
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