Christian-Rights Group Sues Over Posters

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A Christian-rights group on Friday said it has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Spanish teacher whose religious posters were removed from the classroom while he was out sick.

The Rutherford Institute is suing the York County School Board, alleging that Tabb High School officials deprived William Lee of his freedom of speech and equal protection rights last October when they took down the materials.

Lee is asking the U.S. District Court in Norfolk to allow him to rehang the posters, which included one publicizing the National Day of Prayer.

Lee, who advises the school's Christian students club, also had displayed news articles about President Bush's religious faith and former Attorney General John Ashcroft's prayer meetings with his staffers.

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[kiraboo]

1. Not this again! Let the man hang his posters up in his own home!

[kestrel91316]

2. Waaahhhhhhhhhh, I'm being denied my constitutional right to

cram my religious beliefs down everybody's throats. WAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Whining Christofascists make me ill.

[JohnnyBoots]

8. His Constitutional right to breach the wall between church &state, WTF?

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. They really love believing they are victims, don't they...

What would they do if, suddenly one day, they weren't so terribly oppressed by the heathen masses....:eyes:

[jobycom]

4. HIS classroom? Wouldn't that be the taxpayers' classroom?

If it were HIS classroom, then he could hang whatever he wanted. But since it's a public classroom, it does have to follow the Constitution.

[Cha]

5. YEach! You poor suckered dumb

idiot.

[DBoon]

6. I'll shed a tear

when I hear about teachers putting up pro-atheism posters and not being asked to take them down.

[madeline_con]

7. Your post and jobycom's...

Straightened me out.

I was suffering from convoluted thinking about "free speech".

It IS the taxpayers' classroom, as jobycom said, and if the posters were for atheism, they'd be having a coniption fit.

Thanks to both of you. :)