It's time to work towards the end of religious discrimination throughout our school system!
We the undersigned, in partnership with our sponsor, have realized the importance of the subject at hand.
It has come to our attention, that the issue of religious discrimination in our Nation's school systems, is on the rise. Religious discrimination is just like religious prosecution... people in our school systems are denying people for the reason of what they do or do not believe. This is completely unacceptable.
According to the
Free Exercise Clause of the
First Amendment, "
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". My question is, why is it alright for our school systems to take action against what Congress has already said there shall be
no law against?
Religious discrimination is plainly, against the federal laws of our Country. Yet it happens on a daily basis, within the walls of our schools, and out of the mouths of our teachers. We realize that here in America, we support freedom of speech. But that does not give someone of status in our school systems the right to take action against a student who lives by their religion.
And somehow, it's been alright for religious discrimination to continue on. Most people squeeze by, mostly by not verbally expressing that the student cannot participate in certain events or classes because of their religion; but simply by stating it just cannot work out. We do not see that as acceptable either.
We choose action, and change throughout our Nation, for the benefit of the people! We've chosen you to review our petition, and consider the importance. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to read our letter.
