As written, almost any circumstance could justify suspension of First Amendment rights. |
Creationism is not biology and has no place in a biology class. What makes it wrong is not the theory of creationism, but the teaching of creationism as part of a science class. |
I just decided I'd give it a shot. I figured if I didn't find anything, I'd quit, but I kept finding stuff, then I kind of hit a dead end; that's when I sent my memo to the sheriff. |
If this bill banned gay-straight alliances outright, it would be unconstitutional. But because it doesn't explicitly state that, it would be harder to make a constitutional case against. |
If you look carefully at the way that they gathered data for that report, it was simply a matter of interviewing police officers and asking them if they profiled based on race. Not surprisingly, they said no. |
It gives the government extraordinary power to interfere with the personal [and] private decisions made by families about how they will function as a unit. |
It was not a statistical analysis of what actually happens on the highway. It was a survey of officers asking them if they discriminated based on race. It was a study that already knew what answer it would come up with. |
It's terribly disappointing that we are still at this stage. Most other states have gone ahead and done these studies. And there is significant anecdotal information that racial profiling does exist - and we still have not gotten a bill out of committee in Virginia. |
Jails may accommodate the religious needs of inmates by funding chaplains' services that offer assistance to all prisoners regardless of their faith. But they cannot pay a Christian ministry to bring only the Christian message into their jails. |
Jails may make an argument that canteen funds should be treated separately from government funds. We would argue that they aren't. Once they enter the canteen it's the government's money and needs to be treated like any other money that belongs to the government. |
School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves. |
Since Michael is not listed with a wife in 1880, I must conclude he did not leave a widow or children. |
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent. |
The bill, as it is written now, is simply a waste of time, energy and space. |
The only way to do this properly is to have the state pass a law, and then have an independent agency or organization of some kind take the data collected by police at traffic stops and analyze it. |