Ban All Personal Expression in College Faculty Offices

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From Fox News, Friday, April 10, two students are suing Peralta Community College District in California for threatening to suspend them for praying.

Fox reports that according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Kandy Kyriacou and Ojoma Omaga said the College of Alameda accused them of "disruptive behavior" and issued suspension notices to them after they had prayed with a sick teacher in a faculty office in December of 2007.

The Chronicle reported that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the women can proceed with a lawsuit against the college district because students have the right to pray in private outside the classroom. Their attorney, Steven Wood, was quoted as saying that they aren't seeking damages apart from attorneys' fees. All they want is an acknowledgment of their right to pray, an apology, and all disciplinary action to be rescinded. However, the district's attorneys argue that faculty offices are "places for teaching and learning and working" not "protests, demonstrations, prayer" or other disruptive activities.

How sickening that the District would try to cover their spiritual prejudice by showing even more stupidity - putting prayer in the same line as protests and demonstrations in faculty offices. Unbelievable.

If prayer is considered disruptive equal to protests and demonstrations, then they need to make their rule cover everything else as well. Arguments between staff, Birthday parties, Holiday decorations, listening to the radio, personal conversations, telephone calls to Mom, and muttering under ones breath. What jerks.
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