Friday, October 22, 2004

A victory for Christians - Public School Must Pay for Censoring Christian Student

Court rules that a Christian teen was discriminated against because of her religious views.

A federal district judge has ordered Michigan’s Ann Arbor Public Schools to pay $102,738 in attorney fees and costs in a case involving a high school’s refusal to let a Christian student express her views on homosexuality.
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As stated by Judge Rosen, “This case presents the ironic, and unfortunate, paradox of a public high school celebrating ‘diversity’ by refusing to permit the presentation to students of an ‘unwelcomed’ viewpoint on the topic of homosexuality and religion, while actively promoting the competing view. This practice of ‘one-way diversity,’ unsettling in itself, was rendered still more troubling – both constitutionally and ethically – by the fact that the approved viewpoint was, in one manifestation, presented to students as religious doctrine by six clerics (some in full garb) quoting from religious Scripture.”

"This case is another example of blatant anti-Christian bigotry masquerading as 'tolerance,' and 'diversity,'" said Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America (CWA). "It's why CWA works long and hard to fight 'sexual orientation' being added to so-called hate crime statutes. It's loaded with potential for abuse such as this."


But then, since this would not be in line with the beliefs of Mrs. Heinz-Kerry", how would something like this fare under a Kerry presidency?