Miscellaneous

The Spin Doctors Must Feel So Proud

Amazingly, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals had the good sense yesterday to uphold a lower court's decision to toss out a lawsuit brought by a couple of parents against the Lexington, Massachusetts school district, which (shamefully) subjected their child to a children's book which featured (*gasp*) two princes. As in, two princes who liked to go down on one another (illustrations not included).

In a ruling Thursday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a judge who ruled in February 2007 that parents' rights to exercise their religious beliefs are not violated when their children are exposed to contrary ideas in school.

Public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student agree with or affirm those ideas, or even participate in discussions about them," the court said in its ruling.

Gay people in storybooks. Nooooo! The next thing you know, they'll start introducing African-Americans into fairy tales, and then where will we be?

Full post as published by Quiz Law on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).