(February 18, 2015 at 5:12 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You have a little more on your side as far as precedent, but until the school board declined a satanist memorial, there really is no preference being given.
Which is why I see leaving the memorial as-is to be problematic. I'm unclear about what, exactly, would have to happen to challenge this memorial if we're talking about the satanist teacher: would the satanist teacher have to also have taught at the same school? In the same district? Or merely the same state? Under what conditions would the satanist-teacher memorial have standing to challenge the christian-teacher memorial?
It does seems petty of the FFRF to go after a memorial like this, but, at the same time, if every instance of Christian privilege goes unchallenged what kind of precedent are we setting?
Is it bad PR for the FFRF to sue for a change to this memorial? Very possibly. But is that the only reason to not sue? I don't think so. It may be bad PR for atheists/secularists, but it can be equally bad PR for the school or the district to be seen spending time, resources and money defending a memorial that could have been altered for a fraction of the legal costs the district will spend defending it.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
