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America Fights Back
A Big Loss for the Homo-Fascists
Report for December 6, 2003
"Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
2 Corinthians 3:17
The key to turning back the homo-fascist offensive is for Christians to
pray fervently and fight without compromise at every turn and on every
front. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we shall fight them in the
schools, we shall fight them in the legislature, we shall fight them in
the courts, we shall fight them door-to-door and in the streets; and we
shall never, ever surrender. Of course, in this case, we are talking about
fighting lies and oppression with truth and the message of the gospel
which brings liberty from sin and damnation. Below you will read an update
of a story we brought to your attention last week. A victory has been won
on the educational/judicial front, thanks to a courageous young girl and a
judge who has judged righteous judgment. Because of the headline of the
story below, we do want to reiterate that while we applaud, support, and
appreciate courageous stands by Roman Catholic Americans, this ministry
holds that the Roman Catholic Church is a false church with a false
gospel. Our prayer for our Roman Catholic friends is that they will come
to understand that salvation is by God's grace alone, through faith alone,
in Christ alone and that no Christian can stay in the Roman Church, given
its unbiblical, even blasphemous, rituals and doctrines. Yes, we just made
some more people upset, but the name and gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
is more precious to us than popularity or short-term strength.
Thomas More Law Center News Alert
December 5, 2003
Federal Judge Declares Ann Arbor High School Violated
the Constitutional Rights of Christian Student During Homosexual Diversity
Week
ANN ARBOR - In a strongly worded opinion, Detroit Federal Judge Gerald
Rosen upheld the right of a Christian student to express her religious
beliefs in opposition to homosexuality during her high school's
"Diversity Week" program that was designed to promote the
homosexual agenda. The case involved a federal lawsuit filed by the Thomas
More Law Center, a national public interest law firm, on behalf of student
Betsy Hansen whose religious views against homosexuality were censored and
excluded from the 2002 "Diversity Week" program held at Ann
Arbor's Pioneer High School.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center, applauded
Judge Rosen for his strongly worded opinion, "Judge Rosen displayed
judicial courage by refusing to bend to the winds of political
correctness, and he decided the case according to the well established
law. This is a tremendous victory for the First Amendment rights of
Christian students and a tremendous defeat for those who consider public
schools as their private platform to advance the homosexual agenda."
Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling this case, commented,
"We are extremely pleased with the result. It is a complete
vindication of our clients' constitutional rights. This case should be a
warning to school officials across this country: stop using the public
schools as a forum to promote the homosexual agenda. "
During the 2002 Diversity Week program, Pioneer High School officials
prevented Hansen from expressing her Roman Catholic view on homosexuality
at the "Homosexuality and Religion" panel, and they censored a
speech she was asked to give on the topic, "What Diversity Means to
Me." School officials claimed that Betsy's religious view toward
homosexuality was a "negative" message and would
"water-down" the "positive" religious message that
they wanted to convey-that homosexual behavior is not immoral or sinful.
School officials handpicked religious leaders who endorsed the school's
pro-homosexual "religious" belief to sit on the panel, and they
denied Hansen's request to have a panel member who would express the Roman
Catholic belief on homosexuality.
Judge Rosen's 70-page opinion began with blistering criticism of the
school:
"This case presents the ironic, and unfortunate, paradox of a public
high school celebrating `diversity' by refusing to permit the presentation
to students of an `unwelcomed' viewpoint on the topic of homosexuality and
religion, while actively promoting the competing view. This practice of
`one-way diversity,' unsettling in itself, was rendered still more
troubling-both constitutionally and ethically-by the fact that the
approved viewpoint was, in one manifestation, presented to students as
religious doctrine by six clerics (some in full garb) quoting from
religious scripture. In its other manifestation, it resulted in the
censorship by school administrators of a student's speech about "what
diversity means to me," removing that portion of the speech in which
the student described the unapproved viewpoint.
All of this, of course, raises the question, among others presented here,
of what `diversity' means and whether a school may promote one view of
`diversity' over another. Even accepting that the term `diversity' has
evolved in recent years to mean, at least colloquially, something more
than the dictionary definition, the notion of sponsorship of one viewpoint
to the exclusion of another hardly seems to further the school's purported
objective of `celebrating diversity.' In this context, it would do well to
recall the Supreme Court's admonition in another school speech case:
In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of
totalitarianism. . . [and] students may not be regarded as closed-circuit
recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may
not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially
approved." (quoting from Tinker v. DesMoines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.,
393 U.S. 503, 511 (1969)).
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center
alleged that school officials violated Hansen's constitutional rights to
freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the equal protection of
the law. Moreover, the lawsuit alleged that school officials coerced
students to accept the religious belief that homosexual activity is not
immoral or sinful in violation of the constitution.
Judge Rosen held that the Ann Arbor Public Schools and several of its
employees violated Hansen's constitutional rights to freedom of speech and
the equal protection of the law. He also concluded that the school
officials violated the Establishment Clause by inviting the pro-gay clergy
to hold a panel on "Homosexuality and Religion." Rosen
instructed Hansen's attorneys to file with the court an application for
attorneys' fees, which could cost the Ann Arbor Public Schools up to
$100,000.
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