Ethics

Victory in "Praying Parents" Case

By Ed Brayton

You may remember this case in Tennessee, which I've written about several times. A group calling themselves the Praying Parents were given all sorts of access to a public school, including being allowed to go into classrooms and give out stickers to kids saying they've been prayed for. They were also allowed to promote themselves to students in ways that no other group was allowed to do. A federal judge has ruled against the school in a suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of a student at the school. See full ruling here.

Interestingly, two of the Praying Parents actually filed a motion to intervene in this case and it was granted (the case was filed against the school for allowing them that access, since they are the only ones who can violate the constitution, not the parents). And this one statement by one of the Praying Parents leaps out of the ruling:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).