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Judge: Conn. town can't hold graduations in church
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| May 31, 2010
Posted on 06/01/2010 3:40:28 AM PDT by Man50D
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:40:28 AM PDT
by
Man50D
To: Man50D
Tis the season.
The right thing to do of course would be for the school to cancel any publicly administered graduation ceremony and allow for the students themselves to organize one or more private ceremonies with their parents picking up the costs.
This way, any venue can be acceptable, no prayers can be stopped, and everyone will be happy.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:45:27 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Man50D
Stupid as I am, I've been laboring all these years under the delusion that the Constitution prohibited an establishment of religion, as opposed to an endorsement. But then, I never went to University.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:46:54 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Man50D
Can’t be easy to find an inside venue to hold 3,000 people....guess they will need to rent out the Civic Center in Hartford for big bucks or hold the graduation at Foxwoods Casino.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:48:13 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: Man50D
Stupid judge....The purpose of being there isn’t religious...It’s graduation.
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:48:17 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: Man50D
Since when is renting a building the same as congress establishing a religion?
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:48:27 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
(Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
To: Man50D
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:52:48 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
To: Man50D
...graduations inside a church because that would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. We really need to start drug testing our "judges".
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posted on
06/01/2010 3:55:14 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("A Republic, If You Can Keep It" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: highlander_UW
“Since when is renting a building the same as congress establishing a religion?”
Of course it is nothing of the kind. I cannot understand why if in the 18th and 19th century America, where school were often held in the local church during the week without complaint, does it become an issue today? A similar thing happened here on Long Island a few years ago. Evidently, a public school had been using a local church to hold some classes that they were unable to fit in their school building. One person out of nearly one thousand parents complained and the local judge considered it unconstitutional. It made no sense. But I think it is because that one anti Christian person making the complaint, has views which match the presiding judge’s. What a world.
To: libertarian27
Cant be easy to find an inside venue to hold 3,000 people....guess they will need to rent out the Civic Center in Hartford for big bucks or hold the graduation at Foxwoods Casino.
They better be careful at Foxwoods ... you don't want to get tooo close to that rainmaker guy, I think the recording that plays before the fountain shoots is supposed to be him invoking the Great Spirit.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:00:48 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: libertarian27
A real libertarian should be outraged. This is why Conservatives will never respect libertarians.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:01:03 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(NJ Governor Chris Christie for President)
To: Man50D
I attended a High School Graduation ceremony last week, and it was in a church and you may find this interesting, this was in California.
The High School in question is a small one and does not have an auditorium so the larges building available is a church.
To: Man50D
Welcome to Konnecticut.
Oddly, this Looney-Leftist, Pagan mini-Mass. is also the most Home-school-friendly state in the union, with pretty liberal (liberal in a good way) hand gun carry laws.
Go figure.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:06:39 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Man50D
So hold it on the football field. I hope it rains!
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:08:43 AM PDT
by
Dem Guard
("We're Coming to Take You Away")
To: Man50D
The judge has the intelligence of a goat.
They aren’t endorsing a religion, they’re exploiting a church and renting space.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:09:43 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Comrade O has to go; FIRE OBAMA NOW !!!)
To: pnh102
The right thing to do of course would be for the school to cancel any publicly administered graduation ceremony and allow for the students themselves to organize one or more private ceremonies with their parents picking up the costs.
This way, any venue can be acceptable, no prayers can be stopped, and everyone will be happy.
The right way would be to appeal this horrible decision to prevent a small group of individuals from denying the majority their first amendment rights and to stop the socialist spin on the meaning of Separation of Church and State by pointing out it is not mentioned in the Constitution but refers to Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" remark to a group of Danbury, CT Baptists to assure them there was no national religion or church.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:10:31 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: Man50D
Another common case of Christophobia.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:11:04 AM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: Man50D
BS. Churches are used for voting all the time.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:11:51 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Man50D
Interesting. My son’s public elementary school graduation last week was held in a Catholic church. I don’t think a single person was offended.
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posted on
06/01/2010 4:13:01 AM PDT
by
cdcdawg
To: sueuprising
Further proof that liberals and idiot judges can’t even read the U.S. Constitution, let alone apply it. Further, unless I missed something while I was asleep last night, schools were still pretty much not a federal institution. Does their state Constitution contain language prohibiting the free exorcise of religion?
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