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The United
States district Court for the Eastern District of New York yesterday upheld against
Establishment Clause challenge school rules which permitted only secular /religious
symbols (Menorah, Christmas tree, crescent) but not purely religious ones. The
Plaintiffs apparently did not argue that this amounted to the state secularizing
Christmas perhaps because the policy allowed teaching about the origins of Christmas.
The Court ruled that the exclusion of purely religious symbols was necessary to
avoid a violation of the Establishment Clause. I am not sure the establishment clause
requires such exclusion. I am also not certain why the secularization argument was
not pressed. The case is
on the Eastern District web site. Marc Stern ----Original Message----- I
understand the request, but I should say that I (speaking entirely as a mere
list member) actually find "f---", "n-----", "the f
word", "the n word", and so on to be somewhat grating. I can't
say that I'm deeply offended by these euphemisms; perhaps I am less annoyed by
them than those who are upset by "fuck" or "nigger" or the
like are upset by them, if such a comparison can sensibly be made. But I
do have a substantial preference for discussions that use the word and not the
euphemism. I
certainly don't ask others to adapt their own _expression_ to this preference of
mine. But I can understand that others might share this preference, and
therefore why they might insist on using the actual words in their posts.
(Naturally, I'm sure no-one will use these words as epithets aimed at fellow
list members or others; I refer here to people discussing the facts of cases,
or of hypotheticals.)
Eugene -----Original
Message----- If
there is any way we can drop using the four letter word, or at least not spell
it out, I would be very grateful. Thank you. David W. New |
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