She is 16, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, a self-proclaimed nerd who loves Harry Potter and Facebook. But Jessica Ahlquist is also an outspoken atheist who has incensed this heavily Roman Catholic city with a successful lawsuit to get a prayer removed from the wall of her high school auditorium, where it has hung for 49 years.
A federal judge ruled this month that the prayer’s presence at Cranston High School West was unconstitutional, concluding that it violated the principle of government neutrality in religion.
In the weeks since, residents have crowded school board meetings to demand an appeal, Jessica has received online threats and the police have escorted her at school, and Cranston, a dense city of 80,000 just south of Providence, has throbbed with raw emotion. Full story...
Don't miss:
A federal judge ruled this month that the prayer’s presence at Cranston High School West was unconstitutional, concluding that it violated the principle of government neutrality in religion.
In the weeks since, residents have crowded school board meetings to demand an appeal, Jessica has received online threats and the police have escorted her at school, and Cranston, a dense city of 80,000 just south of Providence, has throbbed with raw emotion. Full story...
Don't miss:
- Indonesian Facebook atheist attacked by mob, faces jail...
- I've no God, and I'm proud of it...
- The day I died...
- History of religion in 2 minutes...
- Dave Allen's first contact with God...
- You don't have to be born again; you have to grow up!
- Is there life after death?
- " Your faith is a joke, your relgion is a joke..."
- Einstein: religion is "childish superstitions".
- What is religion? Carlin has the answer...
No comments:
Post a Comment