Victory for Teacher Told to Pay Dues or Change Religions

[qrayjack]

Victory for Teacher Told to Pay Dues or Change Religions
By Randy Hall - CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor

(CNSNews.com) - A legal challenge mounted by a teacher in southern Ohio, who said a union official told her to pay dues or change religions, has prompted a federal district court to strike down a state law that allowed only those public employees who belonged to certain denominations the right to claim a religious objection to paying union dues.

"It's wonderful, just wonderful," Carol Katter, a mathematics and language arts instructor in the St. Marys district, told Cybercast News Service on Friday after U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost struck down Ohio Revised Code section 4117.09(C) as a violation of her First Amendment rights.
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*I guess there are a few federal judges left who follow the Constitution rather than a political agenda.

[greg]

I guess there are a few federal judges left who follow the Constitution rather than a political agenda.Yup. Quite a few, need more, appointed by similar-viewed public hireling reps and leaders, to get us back from this liberal totalitarian dictatorial judicial oligarchal tyranny.

And that's why it is critically important for conservatives and Christ-believing Christians to vote their world views while realizing that this is an imperfect world.

And to exercise the American citizenship of self-governance. Self-governance, that's rendering unto Caesar, which is us citizens. That means holding the feet of hireling reps and leaders to the fire of feedback accountability (which scares liberals like you wouldn't believe--like what happened to their Pelosi-coddled Sheehan/Shays anti-conservative grass roots amendment), and for us individual conservatives to cultivate and support the best conservative potential hirelings that we can find, as a continuous American citizenship lifestyle.

This article also says that Christians and Christianity are political facts of American life, the serious Bible-believing and practicing folks who keep this once-upon-a-time Judeo-Christian-foundationed society salted preserved (what liberties we have left, that we need to continue to fight for in toto, as a citizenship life style), and evil lit up for all to see and to get fixed.

[qrayjack]

...and evil lit up for all to see and to get fixed. Not to sound apocalyptic, but today's world is fertile ground for the Devil, and he is very much involved in all that is evil. And there's a lot of it. I also see that the president might have an opportunity to place another SCOTUS justice. That would certainly help stem the tide if not turn it.

[makamends]

"While the ruling expands the rights available to employees of faith,

I don't get this statement. There was no expansion of the rights of church members. The statute was stricken because it gave superior rights to church members not available to any citizen. The ruling did separate church and state.

Also, Gleason noted that Frost's ruling follows another federal court decision last fall which affirmed that all public-sector employees who have sincere religious objections to union affiliation cannot be forced to associate with, and pay dues to, a union they find objectionable.

Clearly this decision is out of step with the separation of church and state in giving superior rights to the religious which is completely contrary to Frost's decision.

I feel an appeal or challenge to last fall's case coming on. ;)