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[Richard James]

In response to the March 26 posting below (although it’s not really a response, because I was the ‘correspondent’) it might also be the case that Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah 508 U.S. 520, 530 (1993) has more bearing on the issue, as the decision holds that: "The first amendment forbids an official purpose to disapprove of...religion in general." My goal is to try to provide a constructive response to the school that will enable them to stay out of hot water in the future by mitigating this kind of knee-jerk response to the issue at hand.
 
>Can a school restrict participation in school->sponsored "career day"type events due to concerns >about "chuch/state separation"? Our daughter had intended >to invite her grandmother, a minister, to a firstgrade >career day to which the school had issued a broad >invitation. Today I was told by the principal that the >attendance of a minister would be a violation of >separation. I think that schools are understandable hyper->cautious about this issue, but do you think that Peck v. >Baldwinsville has any bearing on this? It might be thought >that participation by student's invitees is an aspect of >free speech and that therefore the school is engaged >in 'viewpoint discrimination' of the
>kind identified in Peck.
  

Richard James