‘Christianity Is Offensive’ Decision is challenged - Freedom of speech exists ‘not to enable religious discrimination by government’

WorldNetDaily

A court ruling that school officials legally could determine that a Christmastime Christian message is “offensive” and therefore ban it from an elementary school is being submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the hope the decision will be overturned, according to the Alliance Defense Fund.

“The First Amendment exists to protect private speakers, not to enable religious discrimination by government officials,” said Jeff Shafer, senior legal counsel for the ADF. “The court of appeals’ unprecedented classification of student religious speech as an ‘offense’ worthy of censorship should be reversed.”

The case began in 2003 when Joel Curry, a fifth-grade student at Handley School in Saginaw, Mich., participated in a classroom project in which students were given guidelines to develop a product and “sell” it during a “Classroom City” event just before Christmas…Click here to read entire story