Larry Mundinger <look.below@signature.org> writes:
Parents who object to school uniforms in one Salem County school
district may opt out of the requirement on religious grounds if they get
a note from a rabbi, pastor or imam.
So where does that leave an atheist who objects to the district's red,
white and khaki uniforms?
Read the story at:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/6617429.htm
....
Perry Dane, who teaches at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden and once
clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, said he
doubted Wilkins would prevail.
"If the argument here is not a free-speech right, if it is just that
it's not fair to treat religious people differently than nonreligious
people, it seems to me that argument doesn't win," Dane said.
....
He clerked for Brennan, yet never read Everson v. Board of Education?
"No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious
beliefs or disbeliefs."
Having an option ONLY open to religious people is punishing those
who are not religious.
And Welsh v. United States, which included Brennan in the majority,
declared that conscientious objector status could NOT be only
available to those with religious objections.
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Merlyn LeRoy
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