has more or less said hogwash<\/a>.\u00a0 A bunch of adult babies who are boosed by having to tolerate differing opinions about the divine does not equate legal injury.\u00a0 They even went so far as throwing out another similar lawsuit.\u00a0 Good for them.\u00a0 While I can see where forcing school kids to learn Islam<\/strike> Christianity is crossing the Constitutional lines, the growing attempt by fundamentalist secularists to dispense with this whole freedom of religion in the name of their own insecurities is crossing the line. <\/p>\nBy the way, I\u2019m sure legal experts will be able to prove, like anything else, that this means nothing.\u00a0 It is no doubt just some technicality and the court was saying nothing more than this or that little nuance in the law applies or doesn\u2019t apply.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still a victory, if for no other reason, than stemming the growing tide of people who think dropping the dreaded \u2018offended\u2019 flag allows for censorship and oppression of liberty in the grandest Orwellian tradition.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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