Valley High 10 Commandments monument to find new home

[left-of-center2012]

New Kensington, PA
A monument featuring the Ten Commandments that must be removed from the Valley High School (New Kensington, PA) campus as the result of a recent court settlement has found a new home at a former school district property.

The religious monument will soon reside at the former Greenwald Memorial School, according to New Kensington-Arnold School District Superintendent John Pallone.

The building is no longer a public school, after the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg bought the shuttered elementary school for $525,000 last March.

Greenwald, at the corner of Freeport and Elmtree roads in New Kensington, was closed in summer 2014 when the district consolidated schools to save money and better utilize space.

It is now Mary Queen of Apostles Catholic School.

Under an agreement between the district and the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation announced Tuesday, the district agreed to remove the stone monument containing the Commandments by mid-March.

The agreement ended an ongoing federal lawsuit filed in September 2012 by Marie Schaub, who claimed the monument was a strictly religious symbol and was offensive to herself and her daughter, who was a Valley High School student at the time.

Read more at:
http://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/11968851-74/monument-district-pallone

[samnsara]

1. The FFRF is great! I $upport them.....

[J_William_Ryan]

2. That some might find the religious symbol offensive really isnt the point.

Such a religious symbol clearly violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment; that government would exhibit its contempt for the Constitution by displaying a religious symbol is what’s truly offensive.

[left-of-center2012]

3. What puzzles me is ...

It stood there at Valley High for 60 years.

[Igel]

4. The extent of a community's religion in public has diminished over time.

What was okay isn't. Somebody might be offended.

Some offendedness is okay. Some isn't.

[left-of-center2012]

5. What I meant was ...

They should have realized decades ago that it was wrong.

[Iggo]

6. They knew it was wrong.

[Mariana]

7. They certainly know it's wrong now

and yet they fought the suit in the hope that they'd be able to continue to display it there. Iggo is right, they did know it was wrong decades ago. They left it there anyway because they were the majority and fuck everyone else.

[left-of-center2012]

8. And let's remember

Pennsylvania went for Trump.

[trotsky]

9. That is exactly it.

Christian privilege.

[Lordquinton]

10. The winds have changed enough that it could be pushed out

Like it's been said, people like to look at these stories and say how it's been there for so long why is it only offensive now? The answer, in no uncertain terms, is that it's always been offensive, there was finally a voice that couldn't be silenced.

[Goblinmonger]

11. Love the FFRF. Everyone on DU should.