Posted on 07/01/2006 5:27:12 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
Once you understand that, everything makes more sense.
Dr., huh? Another one of those overeducated pinheads with a sham doctorate in some psuedo-intellectual "discipline".
Whitehead's insane decision should have come as no surprise to anyone.
Maybe they should have played "Imagine"?
LOL, no but the University of Notre Dame is in my Diocese they perform that version. Also there are a ton of people around here that are German by ethnicity, so I guess that's why I know it. It's just such a universal song for us, that it's just so recognizable.
Unfortunately this brave young woman doesn't have a prayer, no pun intended, of winning this lawsuit. Only athiests seeking to ban God from all daily activities ever win these things.
Divine inspiration, LOL.
Leni
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I hope she wins her suit. And, if she sticks to her guns, she may very well.
I live in her state and am glad to see a young person standing up, armed with the Constitution's First Amendment, to the bullies who strip our free speech.
It's been a liberal cesspool out here for so long, regular folks can hardly think straight for all the PC brainwashing, lack of history being taught, etc.
Vicki Nurre contacted the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal foundation based in Charlottesville, Va., that presses hundreds of cases each year that involve questions of religious freedom and free speech.
The Rutherford Institute is a low-profile, highly effective legal organization seeking to restore our lost Constitutional rights. I support them and urge others to look into this group. On one side bar on their web page, they list links to:
ISSUES
Free Speech
Religious Freedom
Church Rights
Parents Rights
Zero Tolerance
Search & Seizure
Sexual Harassment
Death Penalty
International
This is from their web page:
6/27/2006
Public School Officials Block High School Wind Ensemble from Playing Instrumental ‘Ave Maria’ at Graduation Due to Church/State Fears
Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a First Amendment lawsuit in defense of the rights of a member of a high school wind ensemble to perform an instrumental arrangement of “Ave Maria” at the school’s graduation ceremony.
"I'm a liberal. We all believe in free speech and the right of freedom of expression, and in speaking out against government abuses of power."
Me: "Do you mind if I read this Bible?"
"CALL THE FBI! WE'VE GOT A DANGEROUS RADICAL EXTREMIST LOOSE IN HERE!!!"
http://www.everett.k12.wa.us/everett/Ask%20us%20-%20Tell%20us
Besides the totally-demented story itself, take a look at just how many employees are in the school district in non-instructive and administrative positions.
Public Ed needs to die, and the sooner the better.
The "forum" idea current with the ACLU as a counter to free speech breaks down based on the reason a person is in the state institution.
If they are there under compulsion, then their access to the forum is different than if they are there as an employee of the institution. Those under compulsion are there as "the public." Employees are there as "representatives of the state."
Therefore, when one offers a forum to a member of "the public," then one can only offer a public forum. They are not, then, nor have they in the past been a member of the "state."
One cannot control speech in a public forum.
For example, if the school invites Bill O'Reilly of Fox News to be the speaker, they cannot censure his speech and remove from it any trace of controversial things. He is a member of the public. He is in a state-sponsored forum, but he is not a member of the state institution in question. They can only offer him a public forum. Their offer for him to speak is their recognition that they will simply have to live with what he says.
Students, also, are not members of the institution. They are there by compulsion, but they have not lost their free speech rights.
My dad picked out his music for his funeral,man he knew his church music. As the oldest it was real tuff to hold back the tears,espically when the soloist sang On Eagles Wings.
That's a nice piece but I like the Schubert better.
Should've played "Back in the USSR"
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