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4/13/2007
8:09:49 pm EDT
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St. Paul Schools Sued Over Religious Flier Ban
Author: Associated Press Source: Post-Bulletin (MN)
Title: ST. PAUL SCHOOLS SUED OVER RELIGIOUS FLIER BAN
An evangelical group has sued St. Paul schools to overturn its ban on religious fliers, contending that the First Amendment gives it the same right as Boy Scout troops and Little League teams that distribute recruitment material at schools.
While administrators acknowledge the district's ban on materials of a sectarian nature, a school lawyer said the district's opposition to the St. Paul Area Evangelicals' flier is that it asks parents to take their children out of class each week.
The evangelical group runs Crossroads Ministries, which for 50 years has offered Bible classes to students. It relies on a Minnesota law that allows parents to release their children from school up to three hours a week for religious education.
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| I Thought Religious Release Time Was Dead And Gone | Apr 14th. at 7:39:01 pm EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
When I was a child (I am a crone now) we had religious release time at school in 6th grade. It was generally for catholic and jewish children to study hebrew or go to confirmation class. My girlfriend and I requested release time so we could leave school early one day a week.
That was long ago and far away and I thought keeping religion out of the schools had brought this to a halt. When our schools are having such problems teaching our children to read and write, let alone do math, and we are falling rapidly into third-world status because our research is not up to par, how do schools justify releasing children for any religious activity on a regular basis - sending out fliers to recriut the children for one or another group notwithstanding.
School is for learning. Until we are doing way better at educating our children there is no excuse for sending them out of school to be taught religion of any kind - including mine! We can take care of our children's religious training outside of school hours - and that would end this issue for good.
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| A Glitch In The Matrix | Apr 14th. at 6:05:42 pm EDT
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Lady Katyara (Milford, Connecticut) - Email Me
Didn't something like this happen before? A Christian group sued to have the flyers, a mix religious group that included pagan sent stuff home and then the Christian group raised hell over it?
Am I thinking ahead of myself or didn't this happen in another school?
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| Kids Are Not Mules... | Apr 14th. at 4:02:16 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I'm a firm believer that fliers and schools don't mix, because too many are using them to advertise religious conversion which has nothing to do with what is going on in school at all.
If kids must bring home notes from school, it should be for what goes on there. Not activities in a church or anywhere else unless it is school sponsored...
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| It Has To Be All Or None. | Apr 14th. at 9:05:01 am EDT
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BlueManticore (Tinley Park, Illinois) - Email Me
Either EVERY group is allowed to send these fliers home or NO group is allowed to. The schools would be safer not allowing any, because if they do allow all that does mean groups that some people will certainly not like will be sending home fliers too. Buf it has to be one way or another to be fair. All or none and not just some.
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| ... | Apr 13th. at 11:44:00 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Let the Supreme Court eventually decide in the christians' favor. I'll start printing out Wiccan flyers.
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