▲ | epistasis 3 days ago | |
> The government is allowed to set school curriculum in every other case, so why not this one? If you don't like government school rules set by the government, then who gets to set them? I don't think you have a good answer to this. There is a very very good answer here: the constitution. You are not even responding to the constitutionality claim here, and have refused to even acknowledge the core aspect of this entire case! It seems a bit rude to say "you don't have an answer" when you ignore the point again and again. The government can set laws, curriculum, etc. But it must be in accordance with the constitution. It seems that in the last year or so, many people think that the government can do whatever it wants, that there's no constitution, that there's no limits on government power. This is fundamentally anti-American, and against everything that the entire country was founded on. > You are dancing around the fact that someone has to decide what books go in the library. I'm not dancing around that fact at all. It's a government employee, the school librarian. Guess what, government employees are also subject to restrictions in how they act, as set by the constitution and other laws. When the "other laws" conflict with the constitution, like the one that's the subject of this post, the constitution wins. Budgetary power is not the ultimate law of the land, it's the constitution. This also seems to have been forgotten in the past year. |