The two parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and in their religion states that you shall not have blood of another. So for the parents having the blood transfusion administered to their child was against their moral values, conscience, against their religion and also completely against their beliefs. So from the parents’ point of view they had the right not to administrate the transfusion. The transfusion was made anyway because the child welfare act states that a child in need of protection will be immediately be taking care of. The decision was made that the child was to be ward of the court.
Prayer in the Public School System PHI 200 Instructor: March 21, 2011 The question of whether prayer should be allowed in the Public School System is a question that has been debated for many decades. The debate started in 1962 and runs still today. In this debate some have said that if all religions cannot be represented then none should be represented. Prayer in public schools became an issue in 1960: When Madalyn Murray O'Hair sued the Baltimore MD school system on behalf of her son William J Murray, because he was being forced to pray in school. Ultimately, her actions and the actions of the American Atheist Organization resulted in the Supreme Court ruling of 1962.
Student1: Public schools may not sponsor, supervise, conduct, or encourage any Student to lead, conduct or recite bible readings, religious Invocations or other religious ceremonies in any school activity. Student2: A student's parent whose name was Jaffree sued alleging that this law violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because it forced students to pray and basically exposed them to religious indoctrination Student1: Jaffree decided to file this suit after his three children reported that their teachers had led prayers in school. Student2: Jaffree claimed that the 1981 and 1982 Alabama statutes on prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Student1: According to the Court, this was a clear violation of the 1st Amendment's establishment clause Student2: The majority of people believed that the law is in violation of the First Amendment and must be overturned. Teacher: Who was Wallace? Student1: Wallace was the governor of Alabama at that time Student2: As the case was going on, Jaffree's children were excluded and ridiculed by classmates because of their father's opposition to school prayer.
Reasons given to these suspensions was that the school system did not allow for students to wear armbands in school. The parents filed a case against the Des Moines school system stating that they had violated the teenagers rights to peaceful protest and to freedom of speech. Tinker vs Des Moines reached the Supreme Court where they ruled in favor of Tinker saying that forcing them to stop a peaceful protest, that did not interrupt learning at the schools, by attempting to remove the armbands did infringe on the kids first and fourteenth amendment rights. Tinker V Des Moines outcome set precedent for future cases involving public school systems and First amendment rights, such as the Easton Area School District appeal to the US Supreme Court to uphold their ban on the "I Love Boobies" bracelets that many students in there schools were wearing. The board voted seven to one against the schools appeal stating that the students were wearing the bracelets for charity and that to ask them to remove them would violate
In the course of discovery, the School Board members who voted to remove the books acknowledged that they had not read many of the books and that they removed them because they exposed students to the "religion of witchcraft." The ultimate questions: Do students have a right to read? Does book censorship violate the First Amendment and at the expense of who? As the final verdict on April 22, 2003, the Supreme Court ordered the return of the books back to library shelves. Background Information The Court cited the Tinker case and ruled that there was no evidence that reasonably showed substantial disruption or material interference with school activities if students were allowed unfettered access to the books.
This entanglement arose because the legislature ...has not, and could not; provide state aid on the basis of a mere assumption that secular teachers under religious discipline can avoid conflicts. (Cline 33) The State must be certain, given the Religion Clauses, that subsidized teachers do not inculcate religion. Because the schools concerned were religious schools, because they were under the control of the church hierarchy, and because the primary purpose of the schools was the propagation of the faith, a ...comprehensive, discriminating, and continuing state surveillance will inevitably be required to ensure that these restrictions [on religious utilization of aid] are obeyed and the First Amendment otherwise respected. (Cline 48) This sort of relationship could lead to any number of political problems in areas in which a large numbers of students attend religious schools — just the sort of situation that the First Amendment was designed to
At one time another son, Ellory, was involved in the case but was voluntarily dismissed from the action because he had graduated from the school system pendent lite, meaning pending litigation. The Schempp family where members of the Unitarian Church of Germantown, Philadelphia, and of the Unitarian faith. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had a statute at the time that required at least ten verses from the Holy Bible to be read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day along with a reciting of the Lord’s Prayer. The case was originally tried in The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case was nowhere near the first to challenge prayer in schools, but it was the first to ever reach a federal court.
The Amish’s most important aspect of their way of life is their religion. The Amish religion defines who they are and why they choose to live apart from the dominant culture in society as we know it. The Amish separate themselves from an every day natural culture that most Americans find strange such as, they do not vote and they do not believe in having phones within their residences. The Amish people have not changed their way of life too much in the recent years from what they've always been used to. Their religious values, controlling use of technologies, sustaining gender roles and family, education, work life, and resistance to cultural change remain as their fundamental purpose in the way they have chosen to live their every day lives.
I also understand that school administrators and teachers are not allowed to solicit or encourage the religious activity in the classroom, but they aren’t allowed to be prohibited the activity either. They can’t fight the Supreme Court, for they are the ones responsible for making the decisions. The act of praying in school validates the 1st Amendment’s law “respecting an establishment of religion”. Many lawsuits have been filed against schools, and Federal courts have ruled that the practicing and the sponsorship of prayers in graduation ceremonies were unconstitutional. Team players in numerous sport activities are allowed to pray in the locker room, or even on the field before a game.
The first amendment in the Constitution of the United States encompasses many immutable rights of its people such as freedom of speech, assembly, press, and lastly, religion. In Engel v. Vitale for example, the Supreme court’s court unanimous decision is rooted in the establishment clause of the first amendment which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion.” In this pivotal case, aroused the anger of many parents who did not approve of prayer being recited by New York school children. Although it is not unconstitutional to pray in public schools, the Constitution does however forbid the encouragement of recitation in public schools. Therefore in an opinion delivered by Justice Hugo Black, the court reached a decision that encouragement