Comments on: Religious groups still can’t use public schools facilities for worship https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/ Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Kirby Mclees https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17975 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:37 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17975 Mark Comerford is correct…the USPS only cares about making their phony numbers and their subsequent bogus bonuses. It’s all a sham,and thus a shame.

]]> By: june antonio https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17974 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:12:18 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17974 Crap, I cannot get images to load properly on this website. I’m using firefox 3.4… yes, I know I need to update, but some of my add-ons are not capatable with the newest firefox. Anyways, I inform you of the ptoblem. Later.

]]> By: fastlane https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17973 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:52:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17973 Awww, did you have your widdle feefees hurt, cupcake?

I pointed out some subtleties in most court precedents that may not have been evident in your post. I’m sorry if you’re such a sensitive little fluffy that some humor and detail is so painful for you to endure.

I found your defensive reaction rather amusing, actually. Particularly ironic, your ‘grow some’ comments, based on what is apparently a very thin skinned reaction. Maybe blogging isn’t for you.

I also expect you will now refrain from criticizing anything you haven’t done in the future, since you seem to think I’m not allowed to comment on how crappy your legal analysis is without writing a legal blog of my own.

You will live up to your own standards, correct, or should we had flaming hypocrite to thin skinned nancy as well, eh?

Cheers.

]]> By: Paul https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17972 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:40:42 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17972 Meh. This seems like the least reason to get worked up over anything. Lets assume they get their way, and hold services on Sundays in school buildings. The result would be… A DISASTER! Oh wait, it wouldn’t. It would be a bunch of people gathering to do their weird rituals every week in an empty building. Probably making the school a little pocket money, too. If I remember correctly, the Constitution prohibits the promotion of one religion at the expense of others, right? So long as the answer to a similar request from, say, Muslims is “yes”, there’s no reason why the answer to this group’s request shouldn’t be “yes”.

Its not like they’re asking to stuff a crucifix up every student’s arse, is it? All they want to do is have the use of an empty building for their own fairly innocuous ends. This isn’t about foisting religion on the rest of us, its about wanting a place to practice their religion privately.

TL:DR; I don’t see what you’re getting upset about. Its just a bunch of guys who want to rent an otherwise empty room.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17971 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:48:09 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17971 Fastlane, I wrote a blog post that pointed to some stuff. You told me I left out important stuff and told me what the stuff was. It was pretty much the same stuff.

Did you read the original material at all? To which this post was a mere pointer?

No, of course not. You call yourself fastlane. How about breakdown lane?

If you want every blog post to be exactly as you would have done it, grow some and start your own blog and then read it to the exclusion of every other blog.

]]> By: fastlane https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17970 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:34:31 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17970 Oh yeah, that’s why I usually skip this blog.

]]> By: Greg https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17969 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:24:47 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17969 Midnight.. Nothing I have said contradicts what you have googled. My post is a fucking link to a fucking supreme court document and a fucking on line news report about it, for fucksake. What do you fucking want?

Fucking Jeesh …

]]> By: benjdm https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17968 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:23:01 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17968 Schools can either allow all religious groups to rent out their facilities or none. My local school district allows all and does all a church to meet there.

I do think your post title is misleading…not sure how to accurately title it myself, though.

]]> By: Randomfactor https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17967 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:03:28 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17967 Part of the problem is that the school facilities aren’t in use on Sundays, due to the country’s long deference to one particular religion’s timetables. Other groups such as atheists etc would be able to use the facilities on the same basis on weekdays–except the schools are using them on those days (scheduling special extracurricular events so as not to occur on Sunday.) So they tend to be exclusively used by the cultists.

]]> By: Midnight Rambler https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/05/religious-groups-still-cant-use-public-schools-facilities-for-worship/#comment-17966 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:01:32 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1512#comment-17966 What is WOTI is that this is a very finely carved case. The Supreme Court has already ruled that religious groups can use school properties after hours if it’s allowed in general. This case was treated differently because it involved actually conducting religious services. Moreover, 1) it doesn’t ban them explicitly, but only allows local jurisdictions to ban them, and 2) the Supreme Court didn’t actually take up the case, which means it only applies to the Second Circuit’s jurisdiction.
http://gothamschools.org/2011/12/05/sunday-schools-after-household-of-faith-v-board/

Jeesh Greg, it took me way longer to type this comment than the five seconds it took to look that up on Google.

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