http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2483/supreme-court-decision-concerning-free-exercise/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2483/supreme-court-decision-concerning-free-exercise/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:43:21 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/?p=2483 I think this is important. It’s a case, one of hundreds, that the US Supreme Court declined to review. “There is no free exercise right to be free from any reference in public elementary schools to the existence of families in which the parents are of different gender combinations … public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student agree with or affirm those ideas,” the court said. Some more details from a previous OIF post and the School Law blog.

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