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October 22, 2021 at 1:57 am
Texas would ban Jesus from attending school
Quote:A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing.
School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month, deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and banished him from campus to an alternative school — all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut, a new lawsuit says.
The boy, identified as A.C. in court documents, is one of seven students suing a Texas school district for what they call a discriminatory policy that requires boys to wear short hair.
The students, aged 7 to 17, allege that the district’s policy prohibiting boys from wearing long hair is based on gender stereotypes that violate the Constitution. They say administrators apply it unevenly, allowing some boys to wear long hair that violates the district’s grooming standards while punishing others. Those suing the district said that punishment has caused them “immense and irreparable harm.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...r-lawsuit/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 22, 2021 at 3:43 am
Annoying yes, unfair yes, but "immense harm"? I don't think so!
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 22, 2021 at 4:10 am
(October 22, 2021 at 3:43 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Annoying yes, unfair yes, but "immense harm"? I don't think so!
The lawyers who filed the suit don't think so either. 'Immense and irreparable harm' is boilerplate for this kind of thing.
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October 22, 2021 at 4:35 am
Trump’s New Social Media Platform Is The Shit
Quote:Former president Donald Trump and his team declared Wednesday night that they would soon launch a “media powerhouse” that would help them triumph in their long-running war against Big Tech. But within hours, pranksters found what appeared to be an unreleased test version and posted a picture of a defecating pig to the “donaldjtrump” account.
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 22, 2021 at 5:18 am
Brian's remains confirmed in the Florida nature reserve.
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October 22, 2021 at 5:55 am
(October 22, 2021 at 5:18 am)Brian37 Wrote: Brian's remains confirmed in the Florida nature reserve.
No, I’m fine.
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October 22, 2021 at 6:30 am
(October 22, 2021 at 5:55 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 22, 2021 at 5:18 am)Brian37 Wrote: Brian's remains confirmed in the Florida nature reserve.
No, I’m fine.
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October 22, 2021 at 6:34 am
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 22, 2021 at 6:37 am
(October 22, 2021 at 1:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Texas would ban Jesus from attending school
Quote:A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing.
School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month, deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and banished him from campus to an alternative school — all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut, a new lawsuit says.
The boy, identified as A.C. in court documents, is one of seven students suing a Texas school district for what they call a discriminatory policy that requires boys to wear short hair.
The students, aged 7 to 17, allege that the district’s policy prohibiting boys from wearing long hair is based on gender stereotypes that violate the Constitution. They say administrators apply it unevenly, allowing some boys to wear long hair that violates the district’s grooming standards while punishing others. Those suing the district said that punishment has caused them “immense and irreparable harm.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...r-lawsuit/
They must be real sticklers in Houston. Many of the HS boys here have pretty long hair with most of it styled to fall over their eyes.
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 22, 2021 at 6:52 am
(October 22, 2021 at 6:30 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: (October 22, 2021 at 5:55 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, I’m fine.
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