By Michigan J. Blogger
What I like about Memorial Day is it allows every American to remember the veterans who served to protect this great country in any way they see fit. Or they do not have to honor anybody.
While I choose to say prayers for our military and find a few private moments to reflect on the men and women who currently fight for and have died for the United States, what I do is not for everybody.
Everyone has the right to do what they want. Or so I thought.
Actually, I knew for a while freedom of speech, expression, and religion has been under attack for a long time by the Politically Correct Leftists. Liberals love those freedoms as long as your opinions agree with theirs or fit their agenda.
For example, Code Pink - an anti-war group - hosted a four-person protest outside of George W. Bush's ranch in Texas and the Liberal media was falling all over themselves to report on it. Millions of people protest against big government spending and the media barely covered it because their messiah President Obama is in charge. Once, the Tea Party got so big the medic couldn't ignore it, they provided biased coverage and attacked the movement by calling it dangerous and racist.
Also, since President Obama took over, how often does MSNBC have the Code Pink people on? Not very often.
That Liberal form of censorship has dribbled throughout society to the point Christians cannot express themselves in public.
This comes from the ACLJ.org, (American Center for Law and Justice):
| Defending Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary |
| I want you to know about a critically important case that we have just taken in New York State.
It involves a 7th grade student who was suspended by school officials for wearing a Rosary to school. We represent Chantell Hosier, and her 13-year-old son, Raymond, who attends Oneida Middle School in Schenectady. He was supended for two-days last week after school officials ordered him to remove the Rosary. Raymond did not take off the Rosary. He says it brings him comfort and honors the memory of his deceased older brother and uncle. School officials defended the disciplinary action by saying that wearing the Rosary violated school policy. A school district spokesperson told a local newspaper that the rosary beads "could be an identifier of gangs" and needed to be removed "for safety reasons." First of all, to equate a Rosary to a gang symbol is not only wrong, but deeply offensive. The action taken by this school district - suspending the student for wearing a religious artifact - is insulting and inappropriate. The Supreme Court has been very clear that students do not surrender their constitutional rights to religious expression when they go to school. When Raymond returned to school this morning, wearing the Rosary, he was suspended again. I have instructed a legal team to prepare a federal lawsuit to protect the constitutional rights of our client. We have sent a Demand Letter to the school district letting them know that the disciplinary action they took against Raymond violates his First Amendment rights. The fact is that Raymond has been wearing that Rosary since 2009 without incident until last week when school officials told him to remove it because it violated the dress code. What's clear to us is that the school in this instance is arbitrarily using the vague dress code to silence Raymond's religious message. That's unacceptable. |
| It's sad that in this country we are criticized for saying "Muslim terrorist" because the radical Islam element does not speak for the entire religion, but a Christian can have his rights trampled on because his religious symbol may or may not have been co-opted by gangs. |
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