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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2008 | news, law, religion
    The Edmond Sun, Edmond, OK - Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

    You might find this interesting.

    Quoted: HB 2211 is identical to bills widely introduced into state legislatures across the nation, where they have met various fates. Texas’s Legislature passed it, and Texas is experiencing serious problems as a result...

    So what does it do exactly?

    Quoted: The bill requires public schools to guarantee students the right to express their religious viewpoints in a public forum, in class, in homework and in other ways without being penalized. If a student’s religious beliefs were in conflict with scientific theory, and the student chose to express those beliefs rather than explain the theory in response to an exam question, the student’s incorrect response would be deemed satisfactory, according to this bill. The school would be required to reward the student with a good grade, or be considered in violation of the law. Even simple, factual information such as the age of the earth (4.65 billion years) would be subject to the student’s belief, and if the student answered 6,000 years based on his or her religious belief, the school would have to credit it as correct...

    Anything else? (rephrased for clarity)

    Quoted: If a student chooses to take the opportunity to speak at a school-sanctioned assembly and decides to tell the audience they must accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior or go to hell, then that student would have a right to do so, according to this bill. Especially, if the student held a position of honor and authority (class officer, team captain), and was speaking in his or her official capacity.

    So how is this being handled in the aforementioned states that have already enacted this legislation?

    Quoted: The consequence of the bill will be to create havoc and promote discord in the public schools. That’s already happening in Texas, where the bill has been law for several months. Denton, Texas Independent School District, responding to the law, has decreed that no students may ever speak in assembly, to graduation, to the crowd at an athletic event or in other group function. As reported in The Denton Record Chronicle Sept. 1, the superintendent there said if no students are ever allowed to speak, then there will be no discrimination and no basis for lawsuits.

    Brilliant.

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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 05 2007 | news, law

    Updating a previous Dot of mine.

    Quoted: A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to have sex with a 5-year-old girl has committed suicide in his cell in the Milan federal prison.

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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 04 2007 | law, news, sports
    Buying beer in Texas with Oklahoma ID could prove challenging | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

    Taking the Red River Rivalry one step further...

    Quoted: Carolyn Beck, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, said that under state law, if a vendor sells an alcoholic beverage to someone under 21, the vendor has not violated the law if the person buying the alcohol presented what appeared to be valid Texas identification. That same protection does not apply if the purchaser presented out-of-state identification, leading to reluctance on the part of some vendors to sell to anyone showing out-of-state identification, Beck said.

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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2007 | law, news
    Detroit News - Detroit may rent out cops

    Has no one seen The Usual Suspects? This is a recipe for disaster.

    Quoted: Under a proposal now before the City Council, the Detroit Police want to start hiring out its off-duty officers -- in full uniform, along with badge, gun and patrol car -- to those looking for security... "You'd have your own private police officer," said police spokesman James Tate. "When you have actual officers … it sets a different tone than a security guard."