Students fight ban on giving Bibles at school

Des Moine Register ^ | 06/02/2002 | PERRY BEEMAN

[nickcarraway]

Three Davenport students have sued their school district in federal court after they were told they couldn't pass out Bibles and a church-event flier on school grounds when classes weren't in session.

Sasha and Jaron Dean, along with Becky Swope, filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Davenport claiming the district violated their constitutional right to free speech.

[Iowegian]

bttt

[rface]

I'll bump this...

[Pyro7480]

I guess they didn't hear about the "Good News" case that was recently decided by the Supreme Cour on the side of those with a religious viewpoint. All they have to do is challenge it on those grounds (and the First Amendment, of course).

[Iowegian]

I'm guessing if they had tried to pass out gay and lesbian propaganda the school wouldn't have stopped them.

[Exigence]

I guess they didn't hear about the "Good News" case that was recently decided by the Supreme Cour on the side of those with a religious viewpoint.

I think most public school administrators are deaf when it comes to hearing either Good News or legal cases that go against their anti-Christian stance.

[Concerned]

This should end up being a SLAM DUNK! It's discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs. Case closed!

[twntaipan]

Heck, in some schools (or at least some classes) in America reading the Koran has become mandatory. No problem with the state doing that--part of multiculturalism.

But let students get passionate about their Christian faith, and then the system cracks down.

Multiculturalism (and its twin-sister, secularism) is cultural suicide.