Idiotic judge Steve Thomas declares religious banners at school OK

More than eight months after Kountze High School cheerleaders first hoisted banners at football games quoting Scripture, a judge Wednesday declared the signs OK, overturning an earlier school district prohibition against them and inviting more challenge from an out-of-state organization opposing them.

With less than a month to go before a scheduled hearing on the matter, Hardin County 356th District Court Judge Steve Thomas issued a written ruling that effectively formalized a decision last fall that permitted the signs to be displayed.

The case created a national stir and the cheerleaders made appearances on morning talk shows.

Thomas said in his ruling that the "evidence in this case confirms that religious messages expressed on run-through banners have not created, and will not create, an establishment of religion in the Kountze community," and that the banners were constitutionally permissible.

The Liberty Institute, the group that represented the cheerleaders in the lawsuit along with a Beaumont attorney, hailed the decision as a "victory."

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Judge-declares-religious-banners-at-school-OK-4500552.php

Oh man

The problem being that non-religious team members are being treated as religious?

The problem being that mysticism has no place in education, ie. no tea-leaf reading, no Ouija boards and no spooks, etc...

Though Casper the friendly ghost gets a pass...

CovOps wrote:: Though Casper the friendly ghost gets a pass...

And learning about mystics is of value.

Yeah sure, if taught by an anti-mystic atheist and appropriately denigrated...

Marxism could also come under that banner.

Um, not quite... as it's not otherworldly, not supernatural, not immaterial, not 'spirit-ual,' just wrong headed ideologically...

Though it's mystical in the 'primacy of consciousness,' sense yes?

There are two different kinds of subjectivism, distinguished by their answers to the question: whose consciousness creates reality? Kant rejected the older of these two, which was the view that each man’s feelings create a private universe for him. Instead, Kant ushered in the era of social subjectivism—the view that it is not the consciousness of individuals, but of groups, that creates reality. In Kant’s system, mankind as a whole is the decisive group; what creates the phenomenal world is not the idiosyncrasies of particular individuals, but the mental structure common to all men.

Later philosophers accepted Kant’s fundamental approach, but carried it a step further. If, many claimed, the mind’s structure is a brute given, which cannot be explained—as Kant had said—then there is no reason why all men should have the same mental structure. There is no reason why mankind should not be splintered into competing groups, each defined by its own distinctive type of consciousness, each vying with the others to capture and control reality.

The first world movement thus to pluralize the Kantian position was Marxism, which propounded a social subjectivism in terms of competing economic classes.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/subjectivism.html

Don't think I'd call it mystical, just epistemologically spastic. Remember, Marxists are hard-core materialists...this worldly, pro science and desiring paradise here on earth... plus they're explicit atheists, ie. anti-religion (religion being the cool-aid of the sheeple), so I can't really class them as 'mystic.'

Idiotic judge Steve Thomas declares religious banners at school OK

Idiotic judge Steve Thomas declares religious banners at school OK

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