Morse v. Frederick

The Supreme Court will decide whether principal Deborah
Morse violated student Joseph Frederick's rights when she suspended him for
displaying the banner, seen here.

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Here is a case that is illustrative of the present sad state of affairs in America today. Frederick was a senior high school anarchist who goaded the establishment as he simultaneously insulted Jesus Christ and Christians everywhere. If this was Iran and if the insulted “religious” figure was Mohammed this would be an open-and- off-with-Fredericks-head case. But alas, America has fallen into the black hole of Political Correctness where justice has cataracts. I first saw the story this weekend on AOL.

THE PLAYERS

The Plaintiff:
High School Principal Deborah “Must-Be-Wrong-of-Course” Morse representing law and order, sanity and reason. Kenneth Starr, the principal’s attorney, who has offered his pro bono services.

The Defendant:
Joseph “I never professed to be a saint” Frederick“ representing all the worst elements of a spoiled, ungrateful self-centered attention-seeking rabble-rousing troublemaking punk. Representing St. Joe, the ACLU. You might expect to see these defenders of anything-and-everything-anti-American-and-anti-Christian leeching onto a case like this.

THE ISSUE

(1) Whether the First Amendment allows public schools to prohibit students from displaying messages promoting the use of illegal substances at school-sponsored, faculty-supervised events.

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(2) Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from established principles of qualified immunity in holding that a public high school principal was liable in a damages lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when, pursuant to the school district’s policy against displaying messages promoting illegal substances, she disciplined a student for displaying a large banner with a slang marijuana reference at a school-sponsored, faculty-supervised event.

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Click here for the source.

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SUPREME COURT HEARING

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments today in this case. Why is this even a case at all? The extremely liberal activist 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, home of hopefully soon to be impeached Judge Stephen Reinhardt, overruled the lower court.
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INSULTING JESUS, OK?

Of no apparent concern to anyone was the offensive slam of the Lord Jesus Christ on the sign in the above photo. It is offensive to me. It was more offensive than the pro-drug message, as despicable as that is itself. You can denigrate Jesus Christ or Christianity to whatever degree you want. However, hypocritically, the right to free speech or freedom to express one’s religion does not apply in a government school.

You cannot speak about Jesus, carry or read a Bible, sing a Christmas song, question evolution, display a nativity scene, acknowledge Jesus in anyway in your Valedictorian speech, or pray publicly before a football game. Why is this so? Because doing so is considered the establishment of religion. We must keep a clear separation of church and state. This is baloney with mustard on it. But you can ridicule, insult and blaspheme the name of Jesus without restraint. This is how muddled it gets when liberal thinking is allowed to be played out to the extreme.

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MY "RULING" IN THIS CASE

Nine times out of ten you can bet that when the ACLU takes a case, or when the 9th Federal Circuit Court hands down a ruling both are usually on the wrong side of the right or prper decision. That alone should give you a clue as to how I or any person with commonsence or common decency would rule.

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That being said, I think that a school and a Principal have a right to set standards. A student has the right to violate those standards. If he or she does they should be prepared to pay the consequences. The ridiculous assertion by the 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that the Principal violated the constitutional rights of the student belies its grossly liberal and ACLU- sympathizing bias of that court. The 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals should be broken up.

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I would rule in this case for the plaintiff and against the defendant as well as against the 9th Federal Circuit Court, the ACLU and the society so reticent to object more loudly to the flagrant insult of Jesus Christ and Christianity by the liberal elite of the land and their comrades in harm.

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THE MEASURE OF A BOY

An interesting side note to this story was an article today that revealed, “Frederick, who teaches English and studies Mandarin in China, was not expected at the high court for the argument. Two years after the banner incident, Frederick pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of selling marijuana, according to Texas court records.” That may give us a glimpse at the character of this individual. Communist China may be the perfect place for this fellow. He will have many who will share his apparent disdain at least for Jesus Christ.