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Having a religious banner endorses religion. Illegal.

Having no banner Endorses NOTHING. Completely legal.

Comparing this to the nazis is the stupidest thing a person could do, this is a FOLLOWING OF LAW, in fact, the CONSTITUTION, of a country...

for perky4175, you are an idiot.

She is attending a public school, and public schools must not endorse religion, telling a girl with no religion that by going to a school that illegally endorses religion, and then fighting that according to the law of the country, she is being bad, is the stupidest thing you could say. Or so I thought before reading this thread.

You go on to say that churches should be banned from endorsing religion because it might offend some people, hoping to satirize what you perceive this as. A church is PRIVATE PROPERTY, and as such it's WELL within their rights to hang such banners, a SCHOOL is public property, and they do NOT get to hang such banners. As for Holidays, they are not illegal, because they are the government recognizing that that time of year has a special meaning to people and that giving them the day off will boost productivity, in terms of schools many children would not be in school for those holidays and would miss curriculum.

To Joebannister, who goes with the "it wasn't hurting anyone" argument: Yes it was. If a school you attended endorsed Islam, you would feel threatened and excluded. Forget that it is illegal, why don't you? Except you shouldn't, because it IS.

Ahlquist was not "used as a pawn", she has been behind this from the start and endorses their movements because she is a MEMBER. They didn't find the problem and say, "Hey you! we don;t like this" and have her endorse it, SHE brought it to THEIR attention.

It is basic discrimination, and by upholding her DUTY to the constitution to keep her school secular, she did the RIGHT thing. Taking it down costs nothing, and who really cares how long the banner has been there? It matters about the environment it creates, and, more importantly, about the legality behind it. It's illegal, so it goes. End of story, that's how the law works.

Then you say that because the courts have once made a stupid ruling on an unrelated subject, everything they say is wrong and evil, and when they get it right we shouldn't be proud of them? Maybe I'm using a little bit of hyperbole, but get over yourself.

To jansnowthewall: The good people of reddit have been asked to participate in a poll. Does this make the poll invalid? no. Feel free to go to reddit's Christianity page and tell them to say yes! But advertising a poll to a group of people does not make it invalid.

Also, Chris Young, you are an idiot, and I'm not taking the time to show you how.