Someone on this forum -- I forget who -- suggested that the best way to provide instruction grant money to schools is to give it directly to the students OUTSIDE the ambit of the school...just announce that the grants are available to students of so-and-so school and to contact so-and-so and there you have it....in other words, leave the school out of it entirely (and I guess that in conjuction with that, nothing stops the school from having a 10 or 15 minute quiet time in which students can do what they want...and the TMers can, of course, meditate...)
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the update. > > > > --- In [email protected], gimari03 <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Perhaps a right wing group was invovled behind the scenes. > > > Perhaps not. > > > > There *was* a religious right-wing group involved > > behind the scenes; this was reported in one of the > > newspaper articles that was posted here. > > > > Whether they actually made a legal threat, I have > > no idea, but their involvement was an implicit > > threat, given that lawsuits is what they *do*. > > OK, I checked, and there *was* an explicit legal > threat made by the fundie group. > > From the San Diego Union-Tribune: > > ...Others said they felt TM was too close to a religion and therefore > should not be promoted as a student activity, leading a conservative > legal organization to consider suing the school for violating the > separation of church and state.... > > Sharing the chagrin of some Terra Linda parents over the TM club was > the Pacific Justice Institute, a nonprofit legal group that often > advocates for religion to play a greater role in public life. In this > case, though, the group threatened to sue the high school over church- > state boundaries. > > "If it's religious in nature and it involves faculty, then you would > have a problem," said Kevin Snider, chief counsel for the institute. > > http://tinyurl.com/yarwxq > > This was in one of the articles posted here, > so let's all stop pretending the involvement > of a fundie Christian group is a vile rumor > started by TM's supporters, shall we? > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
