The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union and an atheist teen, who was offended by the display of a 49-year-old prayer banner at her high school, are claiming victory after a school committee decided not to continue defending the banner.
In a 5–2 vote, the Cranston School Committee decided Thursday evening not to appeal last month's federal ruling on a Rhode Island ACLU lawsuit filed on behalf of atheist Cranston High School West junior Jessica Ahlquist. The lawsuit demanded the removal of that banner.
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Last month a federal judge ruled in favor of Ahlquist and ordered that the banner, a gift to the school from the class of 1963, be removed.
"I'm an Atheist, and I don't believe in the Heavenly Father, so I shouldn't have to look at it," Ahlquist said at the time of the ruling, according to CBS.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/aclu-atheist-teen-cheer-decision-to-remove-school-prayer-banner/#ixzz1mg6LAA7b (http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/aclu-atheist-teen-cheer-decision-to-remove-school-prayer-banner/#ixzz1mg6LAA7b)
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ACLU wins again! How did America survive all these years without these organizations telling us how to manage our lives?
So the girl felt so offended by a banner that she had to do something like this? :rolleyes:
Somehow I don't think the ACLU would have helped me to get Che t-shirts banned when I was in high school.