Post by mikef6 on Dec 17, 2020 16:13:24 GMT
In August of 2019, a federal court blocked a South Carolina school district from including Christian prayers at graduation ceremonies. It was the culmination of a six-year legal battle that could have been resolved much more quickly if the school officials weren’t so eager to push God onto those audiences. Earlier this year, it became time for the Greenville County School District to pay up. And the bill came out to more than $450,000. It was a lot of money wasted because administrators were Theocrats who believed they had the right to indoctrinate a captive audience into their fundamentalist religion.
Administrators in the district were promoting religion at graduation ceremonies (including by allowing students to deliver the prayers), holding those events in chapels, and urging attendees to participate in the prayers. A judge said they couldn’t do that. The district owed the American Humanist Association a lot of cash. At the time, the district said it would appeal the $456,242 bill. Several months later, we can finally see how that negotiation went:
According to the Greenville Post and Courier, the district has voted 8-3 to pay $187,000 to the AHA, with their insurance policy covering the rest of it. At least that’s what will happen if the court approves the revised settlement. Many taxpayer dollars down the toilet because the school board was comprised of controlling conservative religionists. How can such people still exists in a supposedly free society?
Administrators in the district were promoting religion at graduation ceremonies (including by allowing students to deliver the prayers), holding those events in chapels, and urging attendees to participate in the prayers. A judge said they couldn’t do that. The district owed the American Humanist Association a lot of cash. At the time, the district said it would appeal the $456,242 bill. Several months later, we can finally see how that negotiation went:
According to the Greenville Post and Courier, the district has voted 8-3 to pay $187,000 to the AHA, with their insurance policy covering the rest of it. At least that’s what will happen if the court approves the revised settlement. Many taxpayer dollars down the toilet because the school board was comprised of controlling conservative religionists. How can such people still exists in a supposedly free society?
