{"id":2066,"date":"2014-03-02T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2014-03-02T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T00:57:15","slug":"sign-a-petition-on-behalf-of-the-sixth-grade-buddhist-who-was-told-religion-was-stupid-should-transfer-to-school-with-more-asians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/2014\/03\/sign-a-petition-on-behalf-of-the-sixth-grade-buddhist-who-was-told-religion-was-stupid-should-transfer-to-school-with-more-asians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign an ACLU Petition on Behalf of Sixth Grade Buddhist Who Was Victim of Religious Discrimination at Louisiana School"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_2068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2068\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/82\/2014\/03\/blog-jesusinschool-500x280_1.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2068 \" title=\"blog-jesusinschool-500x280_1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/82\/2014\/03\/blog-jesusinschool-500x280_1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via ACLU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Almost two weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/2014\/02\/the-aclu-files-lawsuit-alleging-that-sixth-grade-buddhist-was-told-religion-was-stupid-should-transfer-to-school-with-more-asians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I told you<\/a>\u00a0about the lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleging that an anonymous sixth grade Buddhist in Louisiana known only as \u201cC.C.\u201d who was told that his or her religion was \u201cstupid,\u201d and that he or she should transfer to a school with \u201cmore Asians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU has now posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/secure\/end_discrimination_negreet_high\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a petition<\/a> to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at their action center that you can sign to help the young pupil, his family, and the case. It includes a personal statement from the parents, Scott and Sharon Lane, and the text of the petition itself reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder:<\/p>\n<p>No child should be the victim of religious discrimination in our nation\u2019s schools. Please launch an immediate investigation into unlawful religious discrimination in Sabine Parish public schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can sign it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/secure\/end_discrimination_negreet_high\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>right here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two weeks ago, I told you\u00a0about the lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleging that an anonymous sixth grade Buddhist in Louisiana known only as \u201cC.C.\u201d who was told that his or her religion was \u201cstupid,\u201d and that he or she should transfer to a school with \u201cmore Asians.\u201d The ACLU has now posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sign an ACLU Petition on Behalf of Sixth Grade Buddhist Who Was Victim of Religious Discrimination at Louisiana School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Almost two weeks ago, I told you\u00a0about the lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleging that an anonymous sixth grade Buddhist in Louisiana known only as &quot;C.C.&quot; 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