Would You Expect Any Different?

I don't think you could honestly say this is a shock. The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals is unquestionably the most left-leaning and the court with the most decisions overturned by the US Supreme Court, not exactly a conservative body itself. In yet another schizophrenic ruling, the Ninth ruled it was Constitutional for schools to have students act like Muslims, even praying, as part of a mandatory class project. While "Under God" is not acceptable, praying to Allah five times a day is. I suppose it's all a matter of what side of the multicultural bed you sleep on. Multicultural, by action, means anything that is currently the darling of the social left. The irony is, the flip side of their feeling is wild intolerance for those outside their current mainstream (in this case, anyone openly espousing Christian beliefs).

This ruling is actually based on a previous ruling regarding Wiccan apparently, thus continuing the activist tradition of building bad decisions off bad precedent. In the purest sense, what the Contra Costa schools did was not a violation of the First Amendment, in my opinion, because they are not Congress and therefore aren't covered by the Bill of Rights. But this has been mine and others' arguments for some time. You cannot tell one group they cannot freely exercise their religion because you think it might offend someone and then freely endorse and even force individuals who are a captive audience to exercise as you see fit. That is at least hypocritcal and at most illegal. If it's alright for students to spend three weeks learning about Islam, it's at least as relevant that they take three or more weeks to learn about Christianity or even Judaism. But... I hear crickets chirping. You don't see this outside of religious private schools.

Here's a fun one for those among you who are shouting at the screen how intolerant Christians are. At my Catholic grade school and high school, we DID learn about Islam. We learned much of what I've seen on Michelle Malkin's site and others that they're saying kids are being taught in Contra Costa. We also had religion class once a day that taught us about Catholicism, the religion that sponsored our school. So, the school didn't give equal time, because that would be ridiculous in such a setting, but it was covered and we were asked to try and understand those that were different than us, without making those people seem inferior in our eyes.

Will the California educators do this? Hell no. They have no respect for Christian values anymore than they have respect for the US or its traditions. They have respect for the favorite enemy of the day, like the useful idiots they are and here we see collusion by the higher court, the Ninth Circuit. These people don't want equality or tolerance or fairness. They want what they feel is best for the rest of you. Please keep that in mind as you listen to them spout those very words. You'll find they don't really treat them with reverence, so much as they treat them like a punchline.