After Reading Some Stuff...

After reading the survey i am surprised by the percentage of people who do not care about the religion of the president. The first thing that came to my mind was that some people voted for that but don't actually feel that way because it makes them feel good inside. I was also surprised by Q12, 54% of people think it should be legal to burn the flag. I think this is because there hasnt been a draft and no one feels especially close to the flag for some time.

After reading the article on Religious Clubs, i was unaware there were actually laws that showed proof of church and state. I thought that i was just something that the government said they do.

Also after reading the article on the separation between religion and science on creation, i have decided that the only way to accomplish this is to be able to establish a balance between the two ideals. It should not be important what one believes, because the point of school is simply to learn, and not to discriminate. There really is no way to prove one vs the other (especially the religious way.)

Speech Codes and Stuff

What are speech codes? Speech codes are policies made by schools to restrict hateful speech. This speech would be protected under the First Amendment if the school did not make a specific rule against it. If the school did not declare hateful speech illegal people would find loopholes in the law until the law stood for basically nothing. I think that there is too much grey area in the First Amendment. With the use of speech codes, academic institutions can restrict speech to the means they feel necessary. I think speech codes are a good thing. A school has full rights to maintain their reputation of comfort and freedom for all races/genders. It is pretty obvious when a school abuses their speech code power and i am confident a group of students would challenge their power.