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August 17, 2005
Osama bin school board?
The rhetoric's been raised a big notch in an ongoing dispute BoardBuzz mentioned over prayer at various school functions in a Louisiana district. Seems the local ACLU head Joe Cook doesn't think much of the Tangipahoa Parish school board's good faith in complying with a consent judgment over religious practices in its schools. But here's how he chose to put it:
"They believe that they answer to a higher power, in my opinion. Which is the kind of thinking that you had with the people who flew the airplanes into the buildings in this country, and the people who did the kind of things in London."
One would think there have been some
lessons learned about injecting this kind of thing into discussions about our public schools. This is a mirror image of declarations from the other direction that those who serve our children are "
Enemies of God."
More details on the story here and here. The school district apparently is getting some of its legal advice from the Alliance Defense Fund, the same folks who brought us this debacle.
In a similar controversy in Delaware, things were allowed to get so out of hand that the Jewish family who objected to what they say were sectarian prayers at school functions ended up having to move away. In America. In the 21st century. We've certainly come a long way in our public discourse.
Posted August 17, 2005 10:33 AM
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