One of these pictures is not like the other...

2 of them are perfectly acceptable in the teacher's eyes, but one of them gets you punished...

Can you guess which one?...

ADF attorneys defend Wis. high school student facing religious discrimination

Nope...

[SARCASM]No attack on Christianity here...[/SARCASM]...:

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Just out of curiousity, do you actually expect anybody here to take up the stance (supporting the school) explained in your satirical post?

I find it absurd that the students cannot have a religious art rendition.
It's the student who makes the art. It is not endorsed by the school. No violation of separation of church and state.

The only possible sticky part is if the art involves a competition, on which case the judges should judge based on artistic merit. Not on whether or not they like the Dalmation drawn by one artist as opposed to the Russian Blue drawn by another. (Dog people can be notoriously prejudiced. (just kidding...))

But seriously, the school is being ridiculous. There is no rational reason for the prohibition.

On another front, unrelated to my support of the student winning the case, the claim of "A public school cannot require students to sign away their constitutional right to free speech and religious expression..." is banal. Students often have their "free speech" and "religious expression" limited. But the interests in doing so are not present here.

Also on another front, I wonder how the first two would do at a Christian school.
Oh wait! Let me guess. THEN the "free speech and religious expression" would be curtailed, and it would be okay, right?

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Perhaps the artist should have gone that route, insisting that his depiction has as much "fantasy" value as the other two.
But such an argument would obviously be distasteful to the person making the drawing...

I would recommend that the artists next drawing be something on the rule itself. Showing somebody who is gagged from portraying some forms of creative expression.
Not a violation of the rule, but against the rule itself.
At the moment, my thoughts lean more towards an upraised middle finger to the rule, so perhaps the artist shouldn't plagiarize me...


Agreed.
Strike the rule itself at its heart itself.

A Christian school is a private institution and is under no obligation to tolerate art which is subversive to the school's agenda. Parents pay for private schools so that they can have a measure of control over the atmosphere their children are subjected to. So yeah, it would be acceptable to curtail free speech and religious expression in that case.

I would expect this out of California, but Wisconsin for goodness sake?
Must be a transplant.
This is getting worse, isn't it? Who do these people think they are telling an 'artist' he cannot create something out of his emotional connection with the subject. We've gone about as far as we can go in allowing non Christians and protesters of the war and their religions (including Christianity) the right to their own creativity.
This is too much. This teacher should be horse whipped. Or at the very least fired. You do not stiffle a child's creativity like this. This is horrible from an artistic standpoint, a psychological standpoint, and a legal one!

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

Because...he/she is stupid?

The child's creativity is undermined here. I don't believe the school has specific rules against religious art. If it does, then, of course, it should be sued. I cannot consider the words 'teacher' and 'monster' in the same contexet. But that is what we are talking about. A monster who purports to teach children. OR an ignoramus teaching kids. Either one is unacceptable.
You have a child who is interested in the piano, for instance. He wants to learn to play a simple tune that is dear to him. Do you stiffle that urge by putting a fence around what he can play? Say the song is "Little Brown Jug."
Or say the song is "Jesus Loves Me." Same dif.

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Then you should have read the article cited. It was in the first paragraph.

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

I don't believe it. That is not a school. Why would they include such a thing? Please address the rest of my post. I was making a point that this is not education. This is stiffling a life. I feel very passionate about art. I would defend the right of the person who put Jesus in pi$$. Argue about funding it maybe. But defend the right to express whatever does not actually harm another person.
Wearing a T-shirt or a ball cap that is red or blue is one thing. But why have a damned art class if you are going to dictate what a person can draw? Or play on a violin? Once the music of the Irish was forced underground as sinful. The "devil music" was three-part-harmony.

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