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9/1/2006
4:12:25 pm EDT
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Update: Board To File For Dismissal In Portrait Suit
Author: Charleston Daily Mail Opinion Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV)
Title: BOARD TO FILE FOR DISMISSAL IN PORTRAIT SUIT
The Harrison County Board of Education has announced it will drop its effort to keep a painting of Jesus Christ hanging in a high school, which has been challenged in court by two civil liberties groups.
Though the painting was stolen Aug. 17, the board had still planned to fight for the right to keep a religious display. Under legal advisement, the board said Thursday it will file a motion seeking dismissal of the lawsuit in light of the disappearance of the painting at the heart of the case.
Christian students at the public school had raised $6,700 for the school board's legal defense. The Christian Freedom Fund raised more than $150,000 for the legal defense.
[Mike] Queen, [a school board member] said the students planned to present "something that is to be hung there'' to Bridgeport High's principal after school on Friday.
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| Christ! My Head! | Sep 1st. at 6:57:35 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
"Attorneys with Americans United and the ACLU made the offer to lawyers representing the Harrison County School District last night. The proposed settlement calls on education officials to agree not to display the following:
"Pictures, paintings, posters, prints, statues, carvings or other renderings of Jesus;
Any devotional art or religious iconography;
"Any pictures, paintings, signs or other items that favor, promote or endorse any particular faith, or any such items that favor, promote or endorse religion over non-religion;
"Any display of 'Great Teachers,' 'Great Philosophers,' 'Religious Leaders,' 'Inspirational Leaders' or the like that features religious imagery, iconography or devotional artwork.
In exchange for this agreement, Americans United and the West Virginia ACLU will drop the lawsuit and agree not to request attorneys’ fees, costs or other expenses incurred in the legal action so far."
I'd love to understand how anyone can consider this Free Exercise-- a clause, in case we've forgotten, equal (and apparently opposite) to the Establishment Clause.
I guess this fight was what the Framers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution, which my old PoliSci professor called "a wonderfully complex document." He wasn't kidding, was he??
I suppose "equal repression" is a step forward from "unequal repression." Still, I can't seem to help considering it a step forward in the wrong damn direction.
Nothing in Americans United or the ACLU's terms looks like "free speech" or "civil liberties" to me. And, frankly, I fail to see how seeking laws banning any religious display represents separation of church and state.
Well, gotta go. There's culture war all over the kitchen. Apparently both the pot and the kettle have boiled over.
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| End Of Story? | Sep 1st. at 6:41:12 pm EDT
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Greenman (Columbus, Indiana) - Email Me - Web
From the article at the Americans United site (see "additional article link" above") , it sounds like this whole ordeal is over. The school has legally agreed to not replace the Jesus picture with anything religious or devotional, or anything that promotes religion over non-religion. They can't even put up pictures of "great teachers or philosophers" if there is any religious imagery in the picture.
I have no doubt that students and others will offer many replacement pictures, but if the school is smart, they won't put up anything that will bring back the lawsuit or a court order.
My guess is that they will leave the spot on the wall blank, for a while. Without a picture hanging there, it will be like an empty tomb, showing "proof" of the persecution they've had to endure.
I only wish they would think about hanging educational posters there, like math formulas or maps of the world. After all, isn't it a school?
bb,
Greenman
aka "Cern"
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| If I Know Them... | Sep 1st. at 6:02:34 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
It'll probably be the "Ten Commandments" in all its "historical" context.
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| This Just Gets Better And Better | Sep 1st. at 5:01:23 pm EDT
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WitchPoet (Claremont, California) - Email Me - Web
This town is in for a big letdown at the end of this road. I can't wait to see what they come up with to replace the old picture with I am sure it will be even worse, probably have text added to make damn sure it is unconstitutional
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