Just in: (Hat tip Ed)
A Rhode Island public school committee on Thursday voted not to appeal a federal court decision ordering the removal of a prayer banner displayed in a high school.
The Cranston School Committee cast the 5-2 vote at a public hearing to discuss a lawsuit that had been brought on behalf of 16-year-old atheist Jessica Ahlquist, a junior at Cranston High School West.
“I’m thrilled,” Ahlquist said after the vote.
The banner, put up in 1963, has been covered since a federal judge last month ruled it was unconstitutional and ordered it removed. The Class of 1963, which was the first to graduate from the school, gave the prayer banner and school creed as gifts.
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Shall we now place bets on the kind of retaliation, and if it will be primarily anti-freethinking or simply blatant misogyny given that a female did this?
It is said that among those at the meeting, some were wearing “Evil Little Thing” tee shirts. This refers to a state rep’s comments about Jessica. Get your Evil Little Thing tee shirt here.
Anyway, thank you Jessica Ahlquist.
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