Interesting responses, thanks.
In this case, the situation was much more of a forum, with an open invitation
sent home with all students asking for parent volunteers willing to come in and
talk about their careers. In fact, I was responding to a second appeal for
speakers sent out from the
Very often that's the real problem. Then the lawyers on both sides
go to work making up arguments.
Quoting Richard James [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Of course, as a non-lawyer, I think that what the school has done
is
dumb, mostly.
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Richard James
Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar
What has struck me about the responses is the relative ambiguity -- for
good reason -- of the current state of the law. We often hear
that critics of strict separation overstate the opposition to public
displays or endorsement of religion, but I think this case, and our
discussion of it, shows
