Middle School Teacher's Memorial

[SteelCurtain]

If you guys are going to argue " christian privilege", you should know, as atheists, that using the example of satanists is a terrible one (think about it).

The satanist example is used because it is the most "feared" in the community. Most of these "satanist" organizations are atheists using that term in order to prove exactly that point. So when the Gideons hand out Bibles at school, the "satanists" prove the point to the community by handing out coloring books with satanic themes. The result is usually what the "satanists" wanted in the first place---no one gets to hand anything out.

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No matter how you slice it, as it was originally, it was advertising Christianity, without also having advertising for other religions. That is an endorsement of one religion.

Also, there is a difference between using public space for meetings, and public space being used to display permanent memorials.

But the point wasn't comparing the two things, but rather showing the legal definition of "privilege."

And again, "endorsement" is a word that really needs to be legally defined. Is the cross what endorses the religion? What if the family who donated the memorial had Joann's favorite Bible verse engraved on it? Again when we're talking about a memorial I think we're not talking about the school's statement on this, but rather the person being memorialized.

I'm with you, though. I agree that the crosses should have been removed. I just don't agree that this was a worthwhile battle to undertake.