Posted by
Billy on Monday, January 05, 2009 3:42:45 PM
A parent is suing the Huntington County Community School Corp. in federal court, saying religious education classes held on school property violate the establishment clause of the Constitution. ( read more at WHAS11.com )
A complaint filed by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union in Indiana on behalf of an unnamed woman and her 8-year-old son asks a federal judge to shut down the program and bar the school district from providing it with utilities or any other support.
The boy, identified only as "J.S.," attends Horace Mann Elementary School, which offers third- and fourth-grade students a "release time" program for "By the Book Weekday Religious Instruction" through the Associated Churches of Huntington, the complaint filed Wednesday states.
Huntington's program is voluntary. Classes meet once a week in mobile trailers near school buildings, and children who don't participate remain in their classrooms with school staff, according to a brochure for the program filed with the lawsuit.
On Sept. 11, one week before the program began, J.S. was taken from his classroom to one of the temporary classrooms and given a pamphlet regarding parental consent. His mother, identified only as "H.S.," did not give consent.
The suit alleges the school district violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allowing religious instruction to occur on school property during instructional time, by allowing the use of school utilities by a religious organization conducting religious instruction, and by supervising and promoting the "By the Book" program.
(OK so those on the left have no problem with children being taught sex before marriage is ok, or a school leader taking my child for an abortion both things which go against my values and faith. But those on the left get an outrage about children being taught about God. Now it is one thing for a parent to say their child can't be taught about God but this mother is trying to keep other children including those who have parents who have given the ok if their child to learn about God. Could things like this be the reason why so many parents are removing their children from the government schools.)