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Expelled for praying?

  • 15-10-2008 8:15pm
    #1
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭


    From the christian news thread:
    kelly1 wrote: »
    How praying in California can get you into trouble:-

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14029


    Has anyone seen this story on any more "independent" sites? Can't seem to find anything about that story on any non christian website. Very strange. I would like to know more about it.

    Why were they threatened with expulsion? Did they break some rule or something? I can't imagine they would get into trouble for having a pray unless praying is specifically not allowed by college rules?

    If there was no rule saying you cannot pray then I think the college was out of order. However, if there are rules against praying then I suppose the action of the college was appropriate. No?

    MrP


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  • #2
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Has anyone seen this story on any more "independent" sites?
    A quick google shows that there seem to be only two versions of the story doing the rounds -- one of them from the CNA, the website linked to above, and another one which seems to have been released by the students' lawyers. The college website says nothing about it and it's not been picked up by any other news agencies, christian or otherwise.

    Reading the story, I'd imagine that it wasn't the first time that the two students had done this, and that bearing in mind the first amendment to the US Constitution, it seems likely that the school asked the students to take their efforts elsewhere.

    Anyhow, regardless of the constitution, I can't imagine that any school would regard a quiet prayer as "disruptive behavior" unless there was far more to events than the ever-hilariously one-sided CNA is letting on.


  • #3
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    I spent about 30 minutes between google and the college site and was unable to find any other mention of it.

    MrP


  • #4
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Oops -- doing a doc compare, it seems the CNA simply lifted the lawyers' press release from here, corrected a few grammatical errors, slightly toned down some of the prose, added a final paragraph and released it as "news".

    It should be interesting to hear the other side of this story as these legal self-publicists are unlikely to have made much effort to give a full and honest picture of what actually happened.

    .


  • #5
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    There are a few other sites that are carrying it, but it is a cut and paste job as well.

    MrP


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