Oy vey.
“Students and their families should not have to choose between attending graduation and being subjected to proselytizing religious messages,” said Alex Luchenitser, senior litigation counsel for Americans United, in a statement Wednesday. “Yet that is exactly the choice that the Enfield Schools impose on students and their families.”
Read more here if you can stand it.
A less forceful argument here is appropriate, since a full reply to this matter would resemble showing our hand.
What’s good for the one faith is generally speaking good for another, and exposure to emblems such as that of a fish or of fire amounts more to putting restrictions on the would-be viewer, e.g. the one receiving his/her high-school diploma, than it does upon the Christian community:
in the form of restricting that which he/she is permitted by the ACL club to contemplate.
It’s good for the continuance of faith upon earth to permit openness about beliefs espoused by an individual or set.
It’s amazing that people would wax exceeding litigious over a convenient rendezvous for the receipt of symbolic diplomas but never fuss at the sight of fairies and Tasmanian devils at your local Wal-Mart. If magic too constitutes the exercise of belief, and if David Copperfield’s work symbolizes the use of magic, then he ought to be equally free of censure as are those houses of worship which do emblemize our freedom and our thought as heirs to Western Civilization.
It’s worthy of note that islamists, one in Watertn particularly, take especial credit for secularizing America