{"id":1668,"date":"2011-05-20T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2011-05-20T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:51:13","slug":"big-win-for-the-first-amendment-principals-wrong-in-candy-cane-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Big win for the First Amendment: Principals wrong in &#8216;Candy Cane&#8217; case"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/uploadedImages\/Media\/Images\/candycanes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/uploadedImages\/Media\/Images\/candycanes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"83\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;Candy Cane&#8221; case, as it has come to be known, began in 2001. It involves several students in the Plano Independent School District outside Dallas and includes a student who, as a third grader, was barred from giving candy cane pens with a religious message to his classmates at the class &#8220;winter&#8221; party. It also deals with a class that was prohibited from writing &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; on the holiday cards it was sending to American troops overseas.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that the two principals can be held liable for engaging in religious speech discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Shackelford&#8221;This is just a big win for the First Amendment and for millions of students nationwide,&#8221; comments Kelly Shackelford, president of the Liberty Institute, the firm representing a number of students and their parents in the case.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Legal\/Default.aspx?id=1079224\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Legal\/Default.aspx?id=1079224<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Candy Cane&#8221; case, as it has come to be known, began in 2001. It involves several students in the Plano Independent School District outside Dallas and includes a student who, as a third grader, was barred from giving candy cane pens with a religious message to his classmates at the class &#8220;winter&#8221; party. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}