(Kentucky)Lawmakers OK bill to protect religious expression in schools

[Heddi]

http://middlesborodailynews.com/news/16659/lawmakers-ok-bill-to-protect-religious-expression-in-schools

FRANKFORT (AP) — A bill headed to Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s desk designed to protect religious expressions in public schools has LGBT advocates worried it will give student groups a license to discriminate.

Senate bill 17 passed the state House of Representatives by a vote of 81-8. It would prohibit school officials from punishing students for wearing religious messages on their clothes and expressing religious or political beliefs in homework, artwork and speeches. It would also prevent school officials from hindering student organizations, including the selection of members, its mission and “its determination that only persons committed to its mission should conduct these activities.”
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“Apparently everybody else has a First Amendment right of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, unless you are talking about Christianity,” Republican state Rep. John Blanton said. “We’re not trying to indoctrinate people; we are simply trying to enjoy the freedoms that were provided to us when our forefathers wrote the Constitution.”

Other lawmakers said students were already freely expressing their religious beliefs in school, with little evidence they were being suppressed. Democratic state Rep. Jim Wayne said he worried the bill would allow Christian students to label gay students as “sinners.”

“It may be a freedom of expression on one person’s part, but another person could be bruised and damaged by that expression,” Wayne said.
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[trotsky]

1. Should be interesting to observe these self-righteous Christians...

when all the OTHER religions start asserting themselves too. Especially Islam.

[Heddi]

2. Ah but remember, Satanist groups attempting to do the same things

are traditionally called "assholes" and "attention seeking whores" here.

I'd post links but, well, you know how it goes.

Post a link, get a hide
Don't post a link, get called a liar.

[trotsky]

3. Agreed on all counts.

All we can do is keep fighting against religious privilege.