Get Incensed

In the news today, the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union has announced that they are suing a public school in Trenton, New Jersey for holding their high school graduation at a Baptist chruch. I say… heck yeah!

The reason for the lawsuit aggrivates me a little though. What sparked the ACLU’s involvement was that the Baptist church location did not allow for a Muslim student to attend, because Muslims aren’t supposed to walk into buildings with pictures or statues of a religious nature. Therefore, the Muslim high school senior missed their graduation.

I feel horrible for the Muslim student. No one should be excluded from such a joyous occassion, but the reason I’m aggrivated is because the case doesn’t seem to address the bigger problem here. The way I see it, the main problem is the fact that a public school held a graduation in a place of religious worship.

I’m sure that underlining problem will come out during the course of this lawsuit though. I will sit back and have “faith” in the justice system. I believe that they will uphold the Constitution, and set the record straight on religious influence in a secular school.

If they don’t, they’ll be hearing from me… and you, I hope!