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As a follow-up to my last column, I was apparently mistaken when I said that at least for now, candy canes are not being debated. Just three days after I submitted my column, The Washington Post carried a story about a fourth grader in Plano, Texas who was prevented from passing out a goody bag to his classmates that contained a candy cane with a message entitled “The Legend of the Candy Cane” attached. The nine-year-old and his parents obtained a court order to allow him to hand out “religious viewpoint gifts” at school-sponsored holiday parties.
The Liberty Legal lawyer, who argued the case, said that Supreme Court decisions since 1969 clearly have established that students do not give up free-speech rights when they walk through the school door. Expressions of religious faith that would be unconstitutional coming from a teacher are acceptable among students as long as they don’t “materially and substantially disrupt” school operations.
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