A Challenge To Mandatory Moment Of Silence
Vince Leibowitz | Mar 14, 2006 | Comments 1
A North Texas couple has mounted what I think may be the first (correct me in the comments if I’m wrong) federal court challenge to the ‘moment of silence’ mandated for public school students during the “morality session” of the 2003 legislative session. Via AP:
David and Shannnon Croft filed the complaint in federal district court. The complaint says one of their children was told by an elementary school teacher to keep quiet because the minute is a “time for prayer.”
The complaint filed last week names Governor Rick Perry and the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District.
David Croft says there is no secular reason for a moment of silence. In his words, the moment of silence is a “just a ruse to get prayer in school without calling it prayer in school.”
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Filed Under: Texas Judiciary
That’s simply nuts!
What a waste of money on their part, the moment of silence has already been taking to court in other states, and the law was upheld…as no one is forced
to say prayers.