A student at Homewood Flossmoor is coming out today and he’s attending Wash U in the fall. You’ll be entirely welcome at Wash U Jamison so just hang in there pal.
In what will amount to a schoolyard battle of messages, a couple hundred other students are expected to wear shirts citing “crimes against God,” namely “discrimination against … my 10 Commandments, my prayers, my values, my faith, my God.”
I’m not sure how their 10 commandments are being discriminated against, but hey, that’s free speech. You can say what you want no matter how nonsensical it is.
do know that Christian students, their right to pray has been taken from them,” Jacobs said. “Their right to believe in their values has become an offense to many people. The Bible has become an offense.”
Right to pray taken away? Uh, no. Actually no such law or rule is in place. The second part appears to be a bit of pot-kettle issues where they are criticizing another’s values, but they are being the victim…
So, it’s a violation of the First Amendment to publicly state any position that fundamentalists may dislike?
True story: when I clerked for a federal judge, we received a habeas petition, i.e., a request from a prisoner to be released because his imprisonment was unlawful. The basis of the petition was that he was a member of a religion that revered the Constitution and the First Amendment. Under his interpretation of the Constitution, his prison sentence was unconstitutional. So, because his religion believed he was imprisoned unconstitutionally, any further imprisonment violated his First Amendment right to freedom of religion.
He and Rev. Jacobs would get along famously.