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Jordan Lorence: What universities can learn from the Mojave Cross decision

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing at speakupmovement.org/university: "But university officials should learn from this case that historically, the point of the Establishment Clause was to stop government coercion of its citizens to conform their thinking to the prevailing state orthodoxy. Universities should be teaching students our best American constitutional traditions ? that the government may not force people to believe a certain way, or punish them because they speak out against what the government supports. Also, universities should be teaching students that they should tolerate speech they disagree with and that 'being offended' by what someone else says does not give you the right to censor that person."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).