ACLU defends Floyd athletes over Ten Commandments

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FLOYD COUNTY, VA –
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The ACLU of Virginia has come to the defense of a group of Christian athletes in Floyd County.
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In an e-mail sent Friday afternoon, the civil liberties group said it had e-mailed the principal of Floyd Co. High School (FHS), and urged him to allow students to post their personal views, including copies of the Ten Commandments, on the lockers.
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The e-mail comes one day after WSLS first reported that members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at FHS claims school leaders took down the copies of the Ten Commandments on their lockers.
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School leaders would not confirm or deny the incident to WSLS. They would only state school policy that messages other than those such as ‘happy birthday,’ or ‘go team,’ were allowed to be posted on lockers without school administration permission.
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The e-mail from ACLU of Virginia legal director Rebecca K. Glenberg drew a distinction between “school imposed religious expression,” and “the personal religion expressions of students.” The ACLU distinguishes the situation at FHS, from the Ten Commandments controversy in the Giles County Schools system.
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“Schools have the authority to ban all displays on school property,” said ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Kent Willis, in a news release. "But if a school allows students to post some kinds of personal messages on their lockers, it must also allow other kinds of messages, including those that have religious content The removal of the Ten Commandments from student lockers at Floyd County High School appears to violate the First Amendment rights of students by discriminating against religious expression," added Willis in the release.
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“The Supreme Court recognizes the difference between school officials’ imposing religious messages on students, which violates the establishment clause, and school officials allowing students to express their own views on religion in situations that are not school-organized or sponsored,” said Glenberg in the release.
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Contrary to the popular lie that conservative christian talkers like to portray, the ACLU protects the rights of any religious individuals when their rights are infringed upon. It just happens to look like the ACLU is attacking Christians since it is the Christians in the majority of the cases that are doing the discrimination.

I could list dozen more cases where the ACLU is protecting the rights of Christians, but that would just be unnecessary. Right?
 
Asemodeus said:
I could list dozen more cases where the ACLU is protecting the rights of Christians, but that would just be unnecessary. Right?
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It would not be unnecessary on this forum. However you could add the thanks the ACLU got from the bishop of Bridgeport, CT.
 
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Almost laughable. If it weren’t so sad that someone can actuall say this.
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In this country where Christians are in the vast majority, the majority of religious discrimination cases involve allegations of bias by Christians. That’s a fact.
 
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www2.wsls.com/news/2011/feb/25/aclu-virginia-defends-floyd-co-high-school-christi-ar-867856/

Contrary to the popular lie that conservative christian talkers like to portray, the ACLU protects the rights of any religious individuals when their rights are infringed upon. It just happens to look like the ACLU is attacking Christians since it is the Christians in the majority of the cases that are doing the discrimination.

I could list dozen more cases where the ACLU is protecting the rights of Christians, but that would just be unnecessary. Right?
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Welcome. This board needs more angsty atheists looking for controversy.
 
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