Friday, January 18, 2008

Finally, some sanity on "separation of church and state"

This is good news:

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A judge says the University of Wisconsin-Madison must stop refusing to pay for certain religious student activities.

U.S. District Judge John Shabaz says the school's policy of turning down funding requests for activities involving prayer, worship and proselytizing is unconstitutional.
He says the policy violates students' First Amendment rights to free speech.

Exactly! I'm glad this judge understands that the so-called "separation of church and state" (try to find that phrase anywhere in the Constitution) doesn't mean stamping out all religious expression in the public square.

A Catholic student group filed the lawsuit.

1 comment:

Dad29 said...

This is the second lawsuit on the very same issue.

The UW ignored a court order result of the last one...