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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Bizarre Lawsuit Dismissed

By Ed Brayton

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This has to be one of the strangest lawsuits I've ever heard of. A woman named Joyce Marie Edwards filed a lawsuit in Federal district court in Connecticut - representing herself - against the Federal government, and specifically the Supreme Court, claiming that the Court's ruling against mandatory school prayer violates the Declaration of Independence and has caused all kinds of bad things.

Apparently Edwards was a volunteer at a local school in her hometown and was told that she could not preach to the kids about Christianity. According to the ruling (which is on Lexis, so I can't link to it), she told a bunch of students "that the only thing I found to truly help me stop doing bad things and healed me was receiving Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior (by reading the Word of God, the Holy Bible)." The school principal told her she couldn't say things like that to the students and that seems to have set her off.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 26, 2008 (boomark / email).