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    Court backs ban on religious-based song at graduation

    Court backs ban on religious-based song at graduation

    A Washington state school district did not violate students' First Amendment rights by banning a piece of religious-based classical music at graduation, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.

    In 2006, the superintendent in Everett, Wash., tried to sidestep a constitutional dispute by vetoing an instrumental version of "Ave Maria," by 20th-century German composer Franz Biebl. (Not Schubert's "Ave Maria.").

    The San Francisco Chronicle writes that the court "said it wasn't necessarily forbidding religious music at graduation — unlike prayers, which the U.S. Supreme Court has barred at high school commencements as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. But the appeals court said it was reasonable for school officials, concerned about an appearance of religious favoritism, to 'prohibit the playing of an obviously religious piece.' "

    Judge Milan Smith dissented. He wrote that religious music is the foundation of Western classical music and that it expresses secular, artistic messages. Upholding the ban, he said, would "hasten the retrogression of our young into a nation of Philistines, who have little or no understanding of our civic and cultural heritage."

    Read the court's full opinion here.

    Listen to the choral version of Biebl's "Ave Maria":
    at this link:
    http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/20 ... ation.html

    Posted by Michael Winter at 06:44 PM/ET, September 08, 2009 in Music, Nation, Religion
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    Just curious if the 9th Circuit would also approve of an Islamic song for graduation? This is getting ridiculous.
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    Ava Maria is a beautiful song, the ban is outragous!

    We have seen the societal effect of the 1963 court case in North Hills, Pa that set the precedent that prayer and/or even a moment of silence was taken out of all schools in the United States due to the objection of an atheist.

    I hasten to think where our country is going to end up as their seems to be a strong push by anti-Christians to take not only take God off of our money but out of our country.

    I pray that God never leaves our country because we really need him now!
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