Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Educating Barry, Shemp, and MDixon

[MDixon6569]

In a message dated 9/13/06 2:54:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't matter, free speech issue. The person was invited to speak. There > is no law prohibiting the exercise of religion, anywhere. That would violate > the first amendment to the Constitution. Case closed. The first amendment does > not say there are restrictions on where free speech or religion may be > practiced, it guarantees both. > You can't teach SCI in public schools as an elective because the school is paying for the class. You can't lead a prayer in a public school commencement speech for the same reason. I suspect that had the young women simply said "I want to thank my parents, and of course, Jesus," there would have been no problem since the case wouldn't have made ito court BEFORE SHE GAVE TEH SPEECH. Almost certainly, she made a big deal of ithings beforehand in order to get the case in court. How else would it have gotten there? Who had access to her speech? Right, and free speech and the practice of free speech in  religion was never an issue on federal property until a case in 1949 and later school prayer was removed, I think in the early 60's.Had prayer not been banned from schools, there would have been no legal justification for keeping SCI out of the schools. Free religious _expression_ had been  practiced in schools and public places  since the colonies began and was guaranteed under the constitution until the 1960's.In fact the Bible was considered a major text book for schools. What happened? Were our founding fathers violating the very constitution they wrote for almost two centuries? No, it became censored speech so as not to "offend"  those who didn't want to participate, under the guise of  Separation of Church and State, which is no where to be found in the Constitution.< As for the young girl that was giving her valedictorian speech, it was as innocent as you mention above. Originally she was going to give Christ credit for molding her life but had to get clearance through school administrators who then asked the court, who then forbid  the mention of any deity. It was in the papers, quoting the Judge, should she violate his order to the letter she would be thrown in jail. The judge ordered law enforcement to be present and pull the plug on her microphone the moment she mentioned any reference to God and take her to jail for contempt of court. < Now , I know what is blowing your mind right now is that I have the audacity to say there is no mention of Separation of Church and State in the Constitution. If I'm wrong, please show me. Specifically the Article it is found under. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___