Passing out religious tracts in the PUBLIC school~~IS ALLOWED
Read the full article here: Agape Press
"Barb Weller, an attorney with the Florida-based Christian Law Association..."even if one assumes that the so-called separation of church and state is constitutionally legitimate, and the Christian lawyer says she is not prepared to 'buy into that theory,' she insists that any establishment clause-based restriction would only apply to teachers and other school employees. It does not apply to students, she says."
The misunderstanding of the law that resulted in the school initially prohibiting the student's free exercise of her First Amendment rights is a common one, and not only among secularist public officials, Weller notes. "Many times it's Christian principals who refuse to let students pass out religious material," she says.
These school officials (Christian principals) "think they can keep it all out," Weller says, "but the fact of the matter is, they can't." And, in fact, she feels Christian school officials, of all people, should be the ones to encourage students to hand out gospel tracts or otherwise share their faith in Christ.
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"Barb Weller, an attorney with the Florida-based Christian Law Association..."even if one assumes that the so-called separation of church and state is constitutionally legitimate, and the Christian lawyer says she is not prepared to 'buy into that theory,' she insists that any establishment clause-based restriction would only apply to teachers and other school employees. It does not apply to students, she says."
The misunderstanding of the law that resulted in the school initially prohibiting the student's free exercise of her First Amendment rights is a common one, and not only among secularist public officials, Weller notes. "Many times it's Christian principals who refuse to let students pass out religious material," she says.
These school officials (Christian principals) "think they can keep it all out," Weller says, "but the fact of the matter is, they can't." And, in fact, she feels Christian school officials, of all people, should be the ones to encourage students to hand out gospel tracts or otherwise share their faith in Christ.
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