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| Does the 1st Amendment Apply to 1st Graders? Posted: 23 May 2011 08:50 AM PDT
DALLAS – Does an elementary school student have a First Amendment right to free speech? The question was never really a hot button issue until some Plano students brought candy canes with religious messages tied to them to a class winter party. They weren't allowed to hand them out their classmates. That was 10 years ago. But on Monday judges from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments about it. The Morgan et al v. Swanson and Bomchill case, known more commonly as the candy cane case, will be heard en banc because of its national impact. "This case will impact every current and future elementary school student in the nation," Liberty Institute CEO Kelly Shackelford said in a release. "Everyone who is a parent or grandparent or just cares about the future of this country should be concerned. If this court rules that elementary students have no First Amendment rights, then neither students nor their parents will have any recourse against religious discrimination, like occurred in this case. It would be a massive shift of power away from citizens and families to the government." To read more, visit: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/052011-court-to-hear-%E2%80%98candy-cane%E2%80%99-case-on-monday |
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