if a certain religion were removed from football

[Dot Com]

anyone remember Teabow? Ravi I might even watch a game or two if that happened

 

[Harry Dresden]

anyone remember Teabow? Ravi I might even watch a game or two if that happened

 

[bodecea]

I remember a game two weeks ago where a player got a touch down and got to his knees and bowed.....and a flag was thrown. He had an odd name...Muhammed or Ali or Achmed or something.

 

[TemplarKormac]

If a certain government were removed from religion. Oh the possibilities.

"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

"In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint. Certainly where there is no finding and no showing that engaging in the forbidden conduct would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school," the prohibition cannot be sustained."

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)

 

[TemplarKormac]

"The vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools."

Shelton v. Tucker, 364 US 479 - 1960

"A student's rights, therefore, do not embrace merely the classroom hours. When he is in the cafeteria, or on the playing field, or on the campus during the authorized hours, he may express his opinions, even on controversial subjects ... if he does so without "materially and substantially interfer[ing] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school" and without colliding with the rights of others. Burnside v. Byars, supra, at 749."

-Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)

"But, with all of this in mind, we must also emphasize that school officials cannot ignore expressions of feelings with which they do not wish to contend. They cannot infringe on their students' right to free and unrestricted expression as guaranteed to them under the First Amendment to the Constitution, where the exercise of such rights in the school buildings and schoolrooms do not materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school."

-Burnside v. Byars, 363 F. 2d 744 (1966), 5th Circuit.