Looking over the pre-filed legislation for the upcoming year, one bill immediately stood out: HB 33.
There’s a buttload of crazy in this bill.
It provides for students to give their “voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint” through the establishment of a “limited public forum” at all school events. Football games, pep rallies, even the morning daily announcements.
Other than a backdoor way to force religion into schools, it discriminates on the “religious” viewpoints that are allowed by requiring the school to limit the students that are allowed to speak.
Only those students in the highest two grade levels of the school and who hold one of the following positions of honor based on neutral criteria shall be eligible to use the limited public forum: student council officers, class officers of the highest grade level in the school, captains of various sports teams, and other students holding positions of honor as the school system may designate.
So your religious viewpoint must be accepted at all school functions… AS LONG AS YOU’RE ONE OF THE POPULAR KIDS.
December 31, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Holy crap, that’s some weapons grade stupid. And I say that not just because I wasn’t overwhelmingly popular (though I was on the Student Council all four years, and active in Band, Latin Club, NHS, Academic Team…wait, that’s not popular, is it?).
WF
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