One more example of the fact that too many school administrators don't understand Tinker v. DesMoines -- and that too many non-Christians not only want "tolerance" for their beliefs, but are demanding that the rights fo Christians under the First Amendment be actively suppressed.

Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor, CitizenLink of Focus on the Family reports: "The non-profit legal group Liberty Counsel is asking Heritage High School officials to reverse their suspension of 12 Christian students for meeting in the cafeteria during non-instructional time to pray.

"After a Satanist student approached school administrators to complain about the prayer group, Vice Principal Alex Otoupal told the Christians they could no longer meet.

"Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said the students might not have been punished if they had met for just about any other reason.

"’These are students who, if they wanted to gather together and talk about American Idol or talk about whatever subject they wanted to and [there would be] no problem,’ Staver said. ‘But in this case they were told not to gather anymore -- ever -- because they wanted to gather together and pray.

"What the school did is clearly and blatantly illegal, he said."

Students do not lose their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate -- what will it take to make administrators respect that four-decade-old holding of the Supreme Court?

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