The Anti-Establishment Clause
I agree with Hugh Hewitt:
Does anyone even recognize the term "Establishment Clause" anymore? It's now "Separation of Church and State".
Liberals have once again been able to "frame the debate". No longer is it whether or not the state is establishing a national religion, but is any tentacle of our increasingly intrusive federal government in contact with religion, especially Christianity.
And we're talking about pop music here, not a prayer service. One wonders whether they might suspend a student who was driving around the parking lot blaring a contemporary Christian radio station. Or maybe just ban radios.
When I read stories like this one and this follow-up, I wonder if the lawyers giving the advice to the district officials have ever taken a course involving the Establishment Clause.
Does anyone even recognize the term "Establishment Clause" anymore? It's now "Separation of Church and State".
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...
Liberals have once again been able to "frame the debate". No longer is it whether or not the state is establishing a national religion, but is any tentacle of our increasingly intrusive federal government in contact with religion, especially Christianity.
And we're talking about pop music here, not a prayer service. One wonders whether they might suspend a student who was driving around the parking lot blaring a contemporary Christian radio station. Or maybe just ban radios.
posted by The Man at 7:48 PM
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