Posted on 06/11/2023 6:08:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Dos Pueblos High School will no longer include a blasphemous photo in the curriculum of a required course after parents and students pushed back.
SANTA BARBARA, California (Thomas More Society) — A Santa Barbara, California, school has backed down after angering parents and students by including a blasphemous, anti-Catholic photograph in the curriculum of a required course for its International Baccalaureate Diploma.
Thomas More Society attorneys have received a response from a lawyer for Santa Barbara Unified School District confirming that the profane “image will not be used in the Theory of Knowledge curriculum going forward” at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California.
“The school’s deliberate use of a despicable image in a course required for an International Baccalaureate Diploma shows extremely poor judgement,” explained Paul Jonna, Thomas More Society Special Counsel and partner at LiMandri & Jonna LLP. “Even more importantly, it is an act of unconstitutional anti-Catholic, anti-Christian bigotry.”
The offensive photograph, which depicts a Catholic crucifix immersed in a vat of urine, created widespread public outrage in 1987 when it became known that it was created under a grant provided by the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts. The public outrage ultimately resulted in Congress severely limiting the funding of the NEA.
A May 9, 2023, demand letter from Thomas More Society Special Counsel attorneys to the Santa Barbara Unified School District and its board of education president initially elicited a noncommittal response from the district’s legal counsel, stating that it was their “understanding” that the same instructor would not be teaching the same class in the fall, nor would the image be used in the curriculum that semester. That May 22, 2023, response from the district’s lawyer did not verify that the use of the image would be permanently discontinued and tossed aside the demand letter’s.......
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Serial hate crimes against Catholics are happening in CA. Why?
They obviously wouldn’t try that with moHAMMed (pigs be upon him).
They’re under the influence of satan.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats are doing to us.
Que the Communist media headlining how the parents are “attacking” education.
Serrano’s “Piss Christ”, funded by the NEA for $20,000 in the 1980s, recently sold at auction in London for $145,000.
We’ve come a long way from Holbein.
The photo eluded to was of “Piss Christ”.
I’m willing to bet you will never see a Muslim crescent in a jar of piss...
Exactly.
I wonder what “Piss Koran” would auction for? Somebody try it and let me know.
I thought of a better one...in the current climate, I’m sure “Piss Rainbow” would throw some people for a loop.
Well...mebbee not...they might just like that one...
Neither with the Muslims or the Jews.
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