Federal judge rules Joplin must end 'religious' field trips

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Source: News Leader

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a secular group that sought to block the Joplin school district from sending children on field trips to a Christian sports complex.

U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool ruled Thursday the relationship between the Joplin district and Victory Ministries and Sports Complex — and, in particular, the seventh- and eighth-grade field trips and sex education programming — constituted an "impermissible entanglement of government, government funding and government authority with a particular religion and religious message in violation of the Establishment Clause."

The suit filed by the legal center of the American Humanist Association — on behalf of a "non-Christian" Joplin mother and her two school-age children — alleged the district violated the family's constitutional rights by creating an "excessive entanglement between government and religion."

In the suit, the association alleged the venue was covered in religious imagery, including crosses, and the permission slip for the field trip noted children may be invited to Bible studies and local churches while at the sports complex.

Read more: http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2017/03/10/federal-judge-rules-joplin-must-end-religious-field-trips/99007024/

[get the red out]

1. Hideous indoctrination

So glad the judge ruled in favor of the law rather than to keep theocrats happy.

[Solly Mack]

2. Good

I am so sick of the people who seek to shove their religion down the throats of others.

[mountain grammy]

3. Religious institutions are always looking for converts...

I'm glad the First Amendment prevailed in this case.

[Kittycow]

4. Now the Christianists will use this as an example of their "persecution " !