Prayer candy OK

[arcticpenguin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20030319/od_nm/rights_candy_dc

A U.S. District Court has ruled that it is OK for students to hand out "prayer candy" at school.

The students, members of a Bible club at Westfield High School in western Massachusetts, were told they could distribute the candy canes with a "Happy Holidays" message, but were forbidden to attach a message containing a prayer.

In a ruling issued on Monday and made public on Tuesday, Freedman said the one-day suspensions given to the students violated their First Amendment rights to free speech, and he entered a preliminary injunction barring the school from punishing them or enforcing similar speech restrictions against them.

[c4ts]

You kids can't pass out candy canes, this is a school! God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.

[Akots]

Of course, there's always the alternative; passing out candies with satanic cult mantras. Shaped like pentagrams, of course.

[Occasional Chemist]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20030319/od_nm/rights_candy_dc

A U.S. District Court has ruled that it is OK for students to hand out "prayer candy" at school.


I can agree with this ruling. I don't want prayer/religion TAUGHT in school by the faculty, teachers, etc. If a student wants to hand out candy with a prayer label attached, so what? This isn't like even the sporting events case, as students aren't required to participate (take/eat/read the candy) under threat of being singled out if they don't.

Of course, the same rights should be given to, say, candy with pro-atheist notes attached or pro-Wiccan notes, or pro-Muslim notes, etc.

So long as the kids don't pass it out / eat it during class. And they clean up their darned candy wrappers! ;)

[kourama]

Who was it who said:

"don't preach in my school, and I won't think in your church"

that seems to apply...sorta

[neutrino_cannon]

Originally posted by Akots
Of course, there's always the alternative; passing out candies with satanic cult mantras. Shaped like pentagrams, of course.

If only I went to a school like that. Pentagrams are so easy to make!

Is it ok if I wrap my prayers around cough drops?