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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 01/27/2012 : 12:16:33
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The latest teen, atheist crusader for religious freedom, being attacked by her whole community. A friend brought the prayer to Jessica’s attention in 2010, when she was a high school freshman. She said nothing at first, but before long someone else — a parent who remained anonymous — filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. That led the Cranston school board to hold hearings on whether to remove the prayer, and Jessica spoke at all of them. She also started a Facebook page calling for the prayer’s removal (it now has almost 4,000 members) and began researching Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island as a haven for religious freedom.
Last March, at a rancorous meeting that Judge Ronald R. Lagueux of United States District Court in Providence described in his ruling as resembling “a religious revival,” the school board voted 4-3 to keep the prayer. Some members said it was an important piece of the school’s history; others said it reflected secular values they held dear.
The Rhode Island chapter of the A.C.L.U. then asked Jessica if she would serve as a plaintiff in a lawsuit; it was filed the next month. |
Nothing like having a state representatives (Democrat, no less) who calls a teenager defending her Constitutional rights an "evil little thing".
Aren't Catholics just dandy! They fight for prayers to be kept out of public school when they live in a majority Protestant areas, but when they're the majority, they go berserk on other minorities who try to keep their prayers out of school. Mmmmm, tasty hypocrisy.
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Catholic Town Pissed At Teen Atheist Over Prayer
