Will Obey Get Involved?
UW-Eau Claire has ended its policy of prohibiting Resident Assistants from leading non-university sponsored (unofficial) Bible studies in their dorm rooms under threat of lawsuit by one of the RA's. According to this article, the school has relented when a suit was filed in federal court alleging the violation of the First Amendment rights of the RA.
Dave Obey has called for taking away similar First Amendment rights from Air Force Chaplains, including offering an amendment on the House floor. Will he contend as well, that Resident Assistants in the college dorms across America cannot offer a voluntary, non-school sponsored Bible study in their rooms because they are agents of a university that receives federal dollars? Obey Out knows that to be consistent, Dave Obey would come down on the side of UW-Eau Claire, but we wonder if he's going to head down the road of abridging First Amendment rights again.
Dave Obey has called for taking away similar First Amendment rights from Air Force Chaplains, including offering an amendment on the House floor. Will he contend as well, that Resident Assistants in the college dorms across America cannot offer a voluntary, non-school sponsored Bible study in their rooms because they are agents of a university that receives federal dollars? Obey Out knows that to be consistent, Dave Obey would come down on the side of UW-Eau Claire, but we wonder if he's going to head down the road of abridging First Amendment rights again.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 12:09 PM
1 Comments:
That's a really good question Obey Out. I bet you don't get an answer from Obey, and I'll bet he won't be back on the House floor fighting this one. In fact, we could only hope that he would next summer during the education appropriations process right before he had to face the voters.
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