April 24, 2008, - 4:41 pm
What if They Were Korans?
By Debbie Schlussel
A federal judge ruled that a Louisiana public school can no longer distribute Bibles because it’s a “religious activity with no secular purpose.” Judge Carl A. Barbier ruled that the distribution of the Bibles was “coercive.” The ACLU represented a student who sued over the Bible distribution.
This is the same ACLU that won’t sue the University of Michigan-Dearborn over Muslim footbaths, which I suppose have the “secular” purpose of Islam.
My question is this: What if the public school was distributing Korans, as I am told often happens at Dearbornistan’s Fordson High School?
Do you think the ACLU would sue? Do you think a judge would rule it unconstitutional? Think again.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think I would know about it if the Koran or for that matter anything with Islamic origins, whatsoever, were subjected to the Lemon Test.
So far as I know, it’s never happened. Not once. Maybe that’s the question that needs to be asked. Anyway, great point you bring up.
mkfreeberg on April 24, 2008 at 4:53 pm