Florida Schools Surrender To Satanic Temple, Tells Bible Thumpers To Take Their Bibles And Go Home

[RationalMan]

62. The 1st Amendment doesn't work that way.......

As an attorney, but not one that works in the area of constitutional law, I will call on my law school background to respond.

When the school district allowed Christians to distribute Bibles, those that didn't like the practice could have filed suit. The best remedy would have been to file an emergency petition for an injunction to prevent the Christians to do it. Even after they had distributed them they could have pressed to obtain an injunction to prevent any future distributions. I don't know if any of that was done or not.

But now you have the school district that weighed allowing more Christian speech and decided if they would have to allow Satanic speech and "no religion" speech, they wouldn't allow any. That is in fact what they should have done before they allowed the original Bible distribution. Their decision to deny all groups the opportunity to distribute their materials was most likely based on their desire to avoid litigation. It should have been on respect for the freedom of and from religion that is embodied in the 1st Amendment.

Just because the Christians distributed Bibles last year doesn't mean the other groups get a free pass to distribute their material this year. None of these groups should be distributing materials to public school students.