Cranston prayer banner, Whitehouse tax bill get NYT editorials
January 31st, 2012 at 11:44 pm by Ted Nesi under Nesi's Notes, On the Main Site
The New York Times’ left-leaning editorial page will have a strong Rhode Island flavor on Wednesday.
One editorial – “A Brave Stand in Rhode Island” – is explicitly about events here, offering support for Jessica Ahlquist in her fight to get rid of Cranston West’s prayer banner. ”The kindness, friendship and other values the prayer champions are universal, but a statement of religious belief has no place in a public high school auditorium,” The Times declares.
The second editorial – “Turning the ‘Buffett Rule’ into Law”- is national in scope but centers on the effort by Rhode Island’s U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse to require millionaires to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes, which it calls “only the beginning” of efforts to change federal rates.
“Republicans are certain to filibuster Mr. Whitehouse’s bill in the Senate or try to ignore it in the House,” the paper says. “But explaining a tax code that allows the wealthiest to escape their responsibility is getting much harder to do.”
Tags: buffett rule, cranston, cranston prayer banner, jessica ahlquist, new york times, sheldon whitehouse, taxes, warren buffett
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I could care less what the Pravda on the Hudson has to say. In fact, I use it as a barometer for what the latest far left screed is about.
Well put, I’m with ya.
Of course, a statement of religious belief does, indeed, have no place in a public school.
Only an idiot could disagree with that.
When you read the “info” at the cowardly Anti Jessica Ahlquist FB page now titled “Atheism is a Mental Disorder” you will should ask yourself the question…”Would a PATRIOTIC person who SUPPORTS the constitution let the banner exist for so long? Why did no Christian demand the banner to be taken down as it violated the 1st Amendment?”
How Un-American of the entire staff and student body of Cranston High School West to let that banner exist for so long. Should we ask the administration of the school to conduct a review of the Social Studies department to make sure they are teaching the Constitution???