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Religious Discrimination? Will the Supreme Court Take Up the ‘Candy Cane Case?’

Supreme Court Candy Cane Case Petition Filed By the Liberty InstituteAfter eight years of litigation, the case formally known as Morgan vs. Swanson (also dubbed the “candy cane case”) is nowhere near resolution.

The legal battle, which charges that two Texas elementary school principals hampered students’ rights to freely express their religious beliefs, is often held up as a prime example in the ongoing “War on Christmas.” Now, the case is finally being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it could finally be laid to rest.

The Blaze first introduced this first-amendment case back in May. As we reported, the scenario commenced back in 2003 when an elementary school in Plano, Texas, refused to allow the distribution of religious materials.

Jonathon Morgan, a third-grade student at the time, brought candy cane-shaped pens to share with his class. Administrators at the Plano Independent School District refused to allow him to hand out the pens, because they had religious messages attached. As a result, in 2004, a number of unhappy families came together to sue the district.

Here’s a Fox News report from October that further describes the case:

The Christian Post has more about the school’s — and the region’s — history in the area of alleged free-speech violations:

In 2001, at the same school, another student, Michaela Wade, faced similar repercussions after passing out goodie bags, which contained “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” pencils in them. [...]

The lawsuit was joined by another case. In 2004 – at another school, Rasor Elementary, in the same town – Stephanie Versher was stopped by the principal, Jackie Bombchill, from handing out free tickets to a Christian drama, even though she did not distribute the tickets during class hours. Versher was also reportedly prevented from handing out “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so” pencils after school.

In 2010, a three-panel judge ruled in the families’ favor. The district, though, appealed the decision. This past September, the principals involved were declared immune from any liability from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Despite this fact, the court found that the principals were guilty of violating the children’s constitutional rights.

The case was taken up by the Liberty Institute, a group that works “to limit government and to promote free enterprise and Judeo-Christian values.” The group filed a petition with the Court just three days before Christmas, asking that the officials be held accountable for violating the children’s rights. The group has put together a web site to address the case’s importance.

Supreme Court Candy Cane Case Petition Filed By the Liberty Institute

A screen shot of the web site setup to advertise the "candy cane case."

“Every school official knows that engaging in religious viewpoint discrimination against students is unconstitutional,” said Kelly Shackelford, Esq., president and CEO of Liberty Institute. ”Saying that school officials can engage in such religious discrimination without any responsibility is not the law and would send exactly the wrong message to millions of school children and their families.”

A press release from the Liberty Institute reads:

The petition asks The Supreme Court to review a deeply divided en banc decision of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which narrowly granted two school officials, Lynn Swanson, Principal of Thomas Elementary School, and Jackie Bombchill, Principal of Rasor Elementary School, qualified immunity, despite numerous constitutional violations.

While recognizing that the school officials violated the Constitution, a majority of the court determined that the law, however, was not clearly established enough to hold them responsible. In July 2010, a unanimous panel of the Fifth Circuit denied the school officials qualified immunity, recognizing that the law prohibiting viewpoint discrimination is clearly established and also rejected the school officials’ argument that elementary school students have no First Amendment rights.

If the nation’s highest court tackles the case, it would be the first time such a legal drama would be taken up by the justices. But Americans will have to wait, because the decision regarding hearing the case won’t be known for months.

(H/T: Christian Post)

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  • jeffersonian1776
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 9:12pm

    How much do you want to bet that if a little muslim was going to one of these same schools and handed the rest of the students some islamic dogma, they would NOT have one single issue with it. They would justify their allowance of islamic literature as them trying to just be all-inclusive; furthermore, not allowing muslim students their so-called free speech rights would be discriminating towards them. Come on, you know how right I am here. The PC nazis will destroy us, not wearing jackboots but; rather, more appropriately dressed in Nike tennishoes and smiley-face tee-shirts.

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    • SaraD
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 8:06am

      Lets not open this door. When you do, all faiths pour into education where they don’t belong. lets keep schooling and faith seperate. I don’t want people handing that stuff to my kid, she is young and easy to indoctrinate.

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  • kindling
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 8:18pm

    How silly is this? If my clild comes home with something from a faith I don’t agree with I simply tell my child I do not agree and why and throw it away. We have read the papers and discussed how it differs from what we believe. They understand we all have the right to believe what ever we wish. That is what free speech is all about.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 6:36am

      Love your approach to this problem. We do the same with our great-grand daughter. Some people would be surprised at the intelligence and ability to reason from a none year old. She is able to form her own opinions and talk to her contemporaries about various viewpoints.

      OMG

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 9:42am

      We’ve done exactly the same thing with our children. On matters of faith & religion, we’ve explained our beliefs and why we believe them. We’ve also discussed & studied other faiths as well as atheist & agnostic schools of thought . If you don‘t know WHY you choose one thing over another you aren’t really making a decision, you‘re only parroting someone else’s decision. The same principal applies to many, many choices in life. We’ve taught our children to think for themselves.

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    • pap pap
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 12:41pm

      You’re right KINDLING

      When I was in grade school back in the fifties if a teacher had different views on a subject the students would listen and and disregard if appropriate. We had the values that we were taught back then. Today’s students often are not taught proper values, if any at all, or they could make up their own minds about such things or talk over wth their parents.

      Either way this is not unconstitutional but stopping it in this case is.

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    • gperky
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 2:50pm

      This is a good response and we do similar in our home. When we are approached by Jehovah Witness with pamphlets or booklets, we either accept the booklets or politlely refuse and offer pamphlets from our home church to them. We don’t agree their religious beliefs but we do respect their right to their beliefs. That’s what make America great. When we allow a small minority of atheist or H8ters to stop us from our religious freedoms, then we are on the way to losing what made this country great in the first place. WE are a Christian nation but respect others rights to religious freedom. That’s what makes us different from all other countries and makes us ther greatest nation on earth.

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  • DebbieFisher
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:59pm

    Truth will answer answer a falsehood. It does not have to depend upon silencing a falsehood, because truth ALWAYS prevails in the end. No matter how slanted the course, no matter the number or nature of the obstacles, truth prevails on its own. Truth never uses the devices being used against these children.

    Why is this obvious fact so hard for its opponents to see — unless, indeed, they are completely blind?

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    • SaraD
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 8:03am

      How many people would mind if these were messeges about witchcraft being the true light, or mohummad being the true god? Its okay when its Jesus, but not other stuff?When you open that door you open it for everyone, with all beliefs. If people want a religous education for their kids, great, take them to a religous school. I don’t want people influencing my child with their religon, I will educate her at home on these matters and the school can educate her on other subjects.

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  • ImMadAsHell
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:56pm

    Want people 2 read your Posts? Huh? Huh? Try keeping them short & 2 the point GET IT?

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  • becauseitmatters
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:45pm

    Seriously!?!!!!

    They can give kids condoms at school,

    but God forbid the kids distribute candy canes at school!?!?????????

    Stupid; Realy stupid.

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  • piper60
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Back when I was in elementary school, lo these many decades ago, the principal would have applauded the handing out of the pencils in question. In point of fact, students passing from 6th grade were given copies of the new testament BY the school DURING school hours. I’m sure the thought of that just horrifies all theses leftists in the current public school system.

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 4:43pm

      I went to public school in many states, being a military brat, and to a DOD school in an Islamic nation as well. I saw people at the call to prayer in markets and visited mosques with family and a school outing there, but nowhere was I ever subjected to proselytizing. My parents taught the Golden Rule and let me go to church with friends if I felt like it but back in the US I was subject to being indoctrinated into Christianity in a variety of underhanded ways, and I tell you, if I could go back, I would have dealt with this myself in a far different manner. Because Christianity is considered the “norm” it got away with murder in the public school setting, which gives religion a sort of official stamp of truth and approval. We had bibles handed out, we had kids bullied because they were of different faiths whether or not they tried to practice them or stand out, like wearing a yumulke, a scarf, a pentagram. We had a school-time Christian music concert by a fading country singer that was not only a waste of valuable education time, it was an outrage because surely no other singer of another faith would ever be invited or allowed to gather us in a compulsory manner and preach to us! The way that people are rabidly frothing at the mouth and rolling their eyes back in their heads over other religions , well one in particular, makes me fall off my chair in laughter if it weren’t so pathetic. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” I learned. Et tu Brute

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  • chips1
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:07pm

    The “separation of church and state” doesn’t exist. If the ignorant judges rule that it is a violation, how does that prevent the kids from sharing their thoughts? Kids aren’t part of the state and do not lose their individual rights because the school is restricted. “Separation of school and kids”?

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  • chips1
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:50pm

    If the court determines that candy canes promoting Christmas are unconstitutional, then they must also ban pictures of Mohammad kissing his goat. Fair is fair.

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Muhammed kissing his goat? Is this what a Christian learns in bible school . . . to ridicule others and pass along offensive stories? Because what it tells me is that either you are a poor student or your material learned is defective. Or your religion is in dire need of a visit from the Prince of Peace. I remember well what I learned too in vacation bible school in a Baptist church in 1975. No word on Muhammed . . . apparently he was still cool then . . . no, the great communist scare of religion was the Pope and Catholicism. The Pope did things with goats and Catholics worshipped a coffin in the front, drank alcohol and got drunk, and ate raw flesh. Imagine my parents glee when I asked our visiting cousins bout this at dinner when they visited us and went to Sunday Mass. Yup. We all have our stories of the “evil other.” I can only imagine what the Catholic kids were learning about the Baptist kids. Today it’s the Catholic and the Baptist kids ganging up on the Mohammedan kids . . .tomorrow the Hindoos will be “IT?”

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  • tjefferson.lives
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:36pm

    It appears that you are in need of proof-readers. Where do I apply?

    “The case was taken up by the Liberty Institute, a group that works “to limit government and to promote free enterprise and Judeo-Christian values.” The group filed a petition with the Court just three days before Christas, ” Christmas
    “Administrators at the Plano Independent School District refused to allow him to had out the pens, ” hand

    On a serious note: There is no Separation of Church and State found within the confines of the Constitution, however there is a Separation of Church and Congress found within the confines of the Constitution.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:03pm

      Um, no, that is not accurate AT ALL! There is NO such thing as separation of Church and State, nor is there a separation of Congress and the Church.

      Since you like to use Jefferson, lets borrow his thoughts about the dangers of being wrong. ” The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ”

      Lets fact check Congress’ actions and their intent with truth.

      George Duffield, Congressional Chaplain
      On October 1, 1777, after Jacob Duché, Congress’s first chaplain, defected to the British, Congress appointed joint chaplains: William White (1748-1836), Duché’s successor at Christ Church, Philadelphia, and George Duffield (1732-1790), pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. By appointing chaplains of different denominations, Congress expressed a revolutionary egalitarianism in religion and its desire to prevent any single denomination from monopolizing government patronage. This policy was followed by the first Congress under the Constitution which on April 15, 1789, adopted a joint resolution requiring that the practice be continued.

      If you’re going to use a screen name alluding to a Founding Father, it helps to make certain you know their thoughts at least to a little degree.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:08pm

      Oh, you mean like Congress declaring days of fasting and humiliation to God by OFFICIAL decree?

      http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/f0404s.jpg

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:16pm

      More? How about members of Congress ORDERING a National Day of Thanksgiving?

      http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006494.jpg

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:18pm

      Want more of that evil Congress and their NON separation of Congress (and State I might add) and Church!

      http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006492.jpg

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Or how about Congress instructing the Department of Commerce to get some Bibles?

      Aitken’s Bible Endorsed by Congress
      The war with Britain cut off the supply of Bibles to the United States with the result that on Sept. 11, 1777, Congress instructed its Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 Bibles from “Scotland, Holland or elsewhere.” On January 21, 1781, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken (1734-1802) petitioned Congress to officially sanction a publication of the Old and New Testament which he was preparing at his own expense. Congress “highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion . . . in this country, and . . . they recommend this edition of the bible to the inhabitants of the United States.” This resolution was a result of Aitken’s successful accomplishment of his project.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Once again 10th Amendment,

      Tip o me hat to ya

      Thanks

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 8:26pm

      @ Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Once again 10th Amendment,

      Tip o me hat to ya

      Thanks
      ———————————————————————-
      Thank the Founders and the God we share. All we can do is publish their will, wishes, and intent. John Jay is one of my all time favorites for the strength and power of standing on his convictions and not allowing his principles to be diminished. When it comes to reasoned minds I would have LOVED to have sat and just listened to Jay, Madison, Jefferson, and an earlier entry of Polybius. My bet is that Jay would have been the anchor as well as the final authority. Washington was no fool. That’s why he selected Jay to be the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Where Sam Adams was the man of faith and the Warrior spirit. Jay was the man of faith and the spirit of the Law.

      The Founders love of God is what gave them the spirit of Liberty. HE is what gave them the courage of Providence. What we have today in Washington is nothing more than an extremely cheap fraud to the wisdom, courage, strength and faith of the men and women who gave us the greatest Nation to ever exist on this earth.

      It’s up to US to take their vision back and restore this Nation back to God.

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  • marjorie faye
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:05pm

    Until millions of us stand up at once all across the nation and complain loud and clear at the top of our lungs, nothing is going to change. We need to stop being so nice… like, right now.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:12pm

      So true!

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:29pm

      You are so right. We win only a few of the little ones that become news stories. While we spend excessive amounts of time and money on this, “they” are out there killing off so many of our freedoms we stop caring. We had our gradeschool chhildrens’ Christmas play this year and it was actually called a CHRISTMAS play. But there were NO songs of Christ or any religious meaning at all. Sad but true. I remember when I was in grade school we did the whole birth of Christ thing. Sang songs like “It Came Apon A Midnite Clear”, Oh Little Town of Bethleham“ ”Silent Night” , “We Three Kings”. Made the story of Christ come to life for us. We painted and set up the villages and the manger and the stable. Now its “Bubble Gum Bart stole the Holiday tree”

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    • nam-vet6869
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:58pm

      When & Where, I have been screaming for years for the same thing.

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    • billvassos
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:38pm

      Amen!!!! Not with only our lungs tho…. we need a broom to clean house…and maybe a mop for all the spilled * * * * *

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:04pm

      What are you going to do, Marjorie? Beat me up until I believe in your Jesus?
      Waterboard me and those who are fighting for the rights of Americans who believe otherwise or not at all to exercise their rights to live in a nation free FOR all beliefs and free OF coercion?
      Those rights either to have you have to see and hear their religious beliefs and exhibits in public if they have to observe yours as I believe is only fair, or to have none worn on our national sleeve if your theocrats cannot respect fairness and equity?
      We are a melting pot, not a theocracy. Our founders knew that. But if you all insist on bringing up all kinds of their quotes that PROVE that we should have God/Jesus and all the Catholic and Mormon Saints decorating our entire public squares, let me remind you that we can also use their writings and those of the Christian bible to make a case for the return of slavery.
      With 10% + unemployment and many in foreclosure and bankruptcy, perhaps not a bad idea, eh?

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:28pm

      Really? You offer up Dr. Skousen as an example? The guy was a close associate and devotee of Sun Myung Moon, the “deified” leader of the Unification Church, as in the Moonies! He honored him at banquets and his various anti-communist groups and the Moonies plotted for world domination of the theological kind although I can forsee that the Mormons and the Moonies would have soon been battling it out in the temple with brooms or worse for the gilded Heavenly Throne!
      For such a righteous dude too, he was shockingly racist. You can’t read about him from any source without this shining through. As for his bio . . .from Amazon? C’mon. . . his publicist or someone eager to sell his bound rants wrote that stuff . . . would you tell the truth if you wanted to squeeze the last dime out his material from the half-intelligent masses?

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  • oceandove
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:43pm

    I have to agree with the Principals on this one. “Jesus is the reason for the season,” is not something that I would want handed out to my young child, if I were a non-Christian.

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    • nocalifornia
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:49pm

      If you don’t like it just say NO for yourself and yours and keep your nose out of my right to express my faith.

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:58pm

      Then maybe you have no principles? “The reason for the Seasonn” CHRISTmas? How narrow does one’s mind have to be? I’m no bible thumper. been to church thre times this year but always donate tie and money one way or another, Helping members and NON-CHRISTians alike. So why wouldn’t a tax paid employee keep off others toes?

      REMEMBER? These are just Three of the 45 listed in the Congressional Record
      Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
      January 10, 1963
      Current Communist Goals

      17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
      28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state
      41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 5:15pm

      I have a problem with the pro-gay agenda being presented in my public schools too. Do you give to me your same support?

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:07pm

      @Zman173rd, You do realize that Cleon Skousen pulled those “Communist Rules” out from between his butt cheeks in an enormous fart, don’t you? Skousen was a crackpot, a loony, a nutcase, a rabidly anti-Communist whackjob that hated Communists so much that what he couldn’t find out about them, he made up and spread to gullible people. The man was an obscure gasbag until Beck pulled him out of the compost heap of history and made him so important, but it still doesn’t make him any less a LIAR and a paranoid crank.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:36pm

      SMACKDOWN33:
      Yes, I would support your pro-gay agenda. How else would I know who the nuts are? Unclean people are spreading disease above normal germ spreading.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:39pm

      Hey DRose,

      Feel threatened much? Intellectually speaking that is?

      Oh wait, never mind.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:04pm

      @DROSE

      W. Cleon Skousen is best remembered as a popular author, speaker and teacher who lectured in every state and province in North America, and in more than 60 countries world-wide. He was a student of history and a scholar of law, specializing in the principles of Freedom, the U.S. Constitution, economics, and ancient history and scriptures.

      He was invited to write a new constitution for Canada and the proposed United States of Latin America, and he published a model constitution that could be adopted by nations everywhere. He served in the FBI for 16 years, four years as Chief of Police in Salt Lake City, and ten years as a university professor. He was a prolific writer and produced three national best sellers, The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The Five Thousand Year Leap. Eight of his books were used as college texts, and several were translated and published in other countries.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 7:05pm

      He spent two years in Mexico, two years in England, graduated from San Bernardino College in California, and received his juris doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the District Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

      His seminars on the Constitution have been taught to several million across the U.S., and among his students were dozens of U.S. Senators and Representatives, two Supreme Court justices, and several candidates for President. He believed knowledge and understanding were key to maintaining a free country, and spent his entire adult life opening up complex issues for deeper understanding by students and audiences all around the world

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 10:34pm

      OOps

      Looks like my last psat did not appear.

      Don’t want anyone to accuse me of plagiarism. The previous words are not mine. It is his biography from Amazon.com.

      If anyone would like to see more of why I disagree with DESERTROSE’s post above. Look up “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen, and then read all the many reviews of that book. Even the couple bad ones. It’s funny, when reading the 2 bad reviews, they sound just like some of our resident trolls here.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 11:07pm

      @DesertRose

      You seem to be Anti – Anti – Communist.

      Wassup with that?

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 4:15pm

      @Rights of Billy, Yeah, well, you’ve swallowed the Rightwing talking points. Skousen was a John Bircher, and he may have gone a lot of places to talk to wigged groups, that doesn’t make him any less a crank and a LIAR. Good Ol’ J.Edgar had a huge file on him, they considered him that dangerous. And he was always telling people that Skousen lied about his FBI service. And those “textbooks” of his use words like “piccaniny” and say that the Africans trooped up the gangplanks of the slave ships happily and that Slavemasters were the victims of slavery because they were such lazy workers. Right, he’s a great man…..for a raging racist bigot.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 27, 2011 at 5:42pm

      @DROSE

      And I see where you get your info.

      Salon Magazine…..Really?

      You are a crank.

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:09pm

      Hmmmm, what would an atheist child have printed on a candy cane pencil?
      What would those who say,” aww, just throw it away, it’s no biggie” be upset when it popped out of the kids’ book bag months later and the kid has started asking questions about the existence of God?
      In the Koreas the south is leaftletting the north with pro-democracy propaganda . . . I wonder if they’ve thought of pencils?

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:41pm

    Plano has grown from a sometime stopover on my way to and from my hometown to Dallas.
    The only thing it was once known for was the Hot Air Balloon festival. Now it’s grown into a city with all kind of congestion. This would never have been an issue earlier. However, the progressives have overtaken the teaching positions and subverted the system to reflect their own habitually unamerican indoctrination. The teachers presume they own the students minds and will pound even the smallest of our citizens with propaganda until curbed by strong opposition.

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:39pm

    Get rid of the Dept Of Education.

    Ron Paul 2012

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  • smackdown33
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:39pm

    You will not find Muslims at the center of these anti-Christian cases. You will find many, many Jews however. The ACLU, was described by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, as being ‘reminiscent of a temple board meeting.’

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    • tzion
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 9:37pm

      @Smack
      The people at the center of this are from many backgrounds and are usually not “traditionalists” as far as religion goes. If there are Jews involved, they are likely either non-practicing, Reform (highly secular and liberal), or possibly Conservative (officially more right leaning but in reality can go either way). Also, you mentioned the ACLU but most of the war we’ve been seeing has come from the FFRF which is mostly atheist.

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    • ChartreuseMuse
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:10pm

      At least Judaism is not afraid of asking serious, hard-nosed questions as part of the study of their faith.

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  • Riponpundit
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:38pm

    I find it these educators are so full of themselves. They should get back to teaching the kids 3Rs and forget about all the other BS that they give out. It’s so ironic how the teachers will take away the rights of the kids, then who will scream bloody murder when somebody attempts takes away their“ rights” to overpriced healthcare paid entirely by the taxpayer. I know of no teacher who was put one penny towards my retirement, but are asking me to pay for theirs. Quit complaining and teach our children how to read and write.

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  • paulusmaximus
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:36pm

    Christian values do not meet with progressive agendas. Its not about teaching anyone it is about political power.

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:34pm

    BLAZE: “three days before Christas, …” I tried it, Spellchecker Program catches it. WAKE UP.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:32pm

    This is coming to a head, and no matter how the court rules, discrimination towards Christian-Judeo beliefs is going to continue to escalate until the end of days. Those who don’t believe, well God bless you, you won‘t have a clue what’s coming at you. Ron Paul is talking doomsday, for which he will be roundly scorned. Glenn gets scorned, but he’s not running for anything. Court or no, it will be ugly, hang on gang. Schools have gotten so stupid about the constitution, I’m suprised they can find their feet. Good luck to us all.

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  • Drakkhanlord
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Still waiting for beck and the blaze to investigate obama/soetoro/bouhnel…
    SS# 042=68=4425 E-verified Fraud.
    3 fake BC’s …etc etc etc .

    Man up or Shut up…

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  • truthseekerusa
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:16pm

    On the day before Christmas I visited a medical clinic where an elderly lady was passing out candy canes to patients waiting to see the doctors. I was told that she does this every year.

    This clinic has a large staff so I surmise that there were doctors and others of many different faiths or even atheists. Everyone except one grouchy, dour faced woman accepted the candy cane with thanks.

    Why is it that educators cannot accept the spirit in which these gifts are given and that they have a compulsion to crush anything that does not fit in their socialist philosophy? No wonder so many parents are pulling their children out of public schools and sending their children to private, parochial or charter schools!

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  • dynaflow
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:10pm

    The teachers do not have any common sense. I believe they will find it in Hell!!!!!

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:38pm

      @ DYNAFLOW
      Remember this one?..
      A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

      The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though they were a very large mammal their throat was very small.

      The little girl stated Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

      The teacher reiterated a whale could not
      swallow a human; it was impossible.

      The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah.”

      The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to hell?”

      The little girl replied, “Then you ask him.”

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:06pm

      From “Stranger than Science”, Frank Edwards, 1959.
      The case of James Bartley, a seaman on board the whaler Star of the East.
      According to British Admirality records, in February,1891 Bartley left the ship as part of the longboat crew during a whale hunt. The boat was overtaken and wreaked by a sperm whale that had been harpooned. All the crew was rescued except Bartley. Soon, the whale surfaced, dead. During the flensing a shoe and leg appeared. Bartley was extracted from the whales stomach, alive but unconscious. He regained consciousness but could not speak for several weeks. His skin was bleached white and he was nearly blind after spending 15 hours inside the whales belly as attested by the ships surgeon and all hands. He lived to the age of 39 and his gravestone is still visible in Gloucester, England with the epitaph…James Bartley, 1870-1909. A modern Jonah.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:09pm

    The constitution neither states nor implies anything about what children can pass out at school.

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  • Drakkhanlord
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:08pm

    Supreme court…what a freakin joke.
    Pompus dou ‘chebags appointed by traitorous people.

    Want to know whats going on ?
    Go to all Presidents E.O.’s since Johnson …
    will show you exactly what is about to happen to all…
    Pay close attention to the Continuation of Govt Orders…
    will see what the Govt has in store for the US Citizens.

    Welcome to the New world order.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 4:04pm

    @micmac
    They dont educate, they indoctrinate……

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  • Micmac
    Posted on December 26, 2011 at 3:57pm

    When do they educate? I’d be more concerned about the lack of quality of education than a candy cane…

    NoBama 2012

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