Boy Suspended for Bringing Bible To School Files Suit :

via stoptheaclu.com

“A San Diego-area teen suspended for bringing his Bible to school and talking about his faith has filed a lawsuit against the school district, the superintendent, an assistant principal, and a teacher.
In January 2010, 16-year-old Kenneth Dominguez was suspended for two days from Gateway East High School for violating a teacher’s order not to bring his Bible to school and not to discuss his faith with others. Dominguez’s Bible was even confiscated by that teacher, who said Dominguez’s actions violated “separation of church and state:”
“He didn’t give any sermons or yell or scream… just sharing his faith with other students. That was it,” Brad Dacus, Dominguez’s attorney, told KGTV, adding that we don’t live in communist China.
Even the ACLU is calling the case a “clear” free-speech violation.
But a spokeswoman for the Grossmont Union High School District — the district named in the suit — contends there’s much more to the story. She couldn’t elaborate, however, to KGTV because of federal privacy laws
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Thinking about it, I would have done much the same as the family of the boy above did. My son was not Christened around the time of his birth as neither I nor his mother have any religious beliefs. But at age 9 he announced his wish to be a Catholic. As both I and his mother had been religious in our teens and earlier we were delighted by this and put his baptism and confirmation immediately in train. And we also sent him thereafter to a Catholic school — where his best subject was religion.
So nobody would have confiscated HIS Bible. But If I had been poor and sent him to a government school and someone had confiscated his Bible, they would have had me to deal with. And I am very good at pushing back.
A boy’s religion is his own business and in the USA his practice of it is protected by the constitution. And “sharing” his religious beliefs is part of being Christian. Check Matthew 28:19-20 if you doubt it.

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