{"id":4416,"date":"2005-01-27T07:24:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T07:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2005-01-27T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T07:24:57","slug":"what-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"WHAT FIRST AMENDMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float:right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/\/pics\/0122ar-artist-autosized141.jpg\"><\/span>Actually the school got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/local\/articles\/0127artist27.html\">this one<\/a> correct.  It&#8217;s the physics teacher who is out of bounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erika Vogt-Nilsen, 17, stirred controversy at the school&#8217;s Winter Art Show with a digitally manipulated photograph showing a sinister-looking puppeteer with strings attached to an image of a crucified Christ.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher and six students who thought it mocked Christianity expressed their displeasure to the administration after the show came down. Then the teacher sent a letter to local newspapers objecting to the work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;From the Christian world view, this is the ultimate sacrilege,&#8221; said Mountain Pointe physics teacher Philip Moon who objected to her artwork. &#8220;Whether she intended it or not, it means God is dangling at the hands of man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;It has absolutely no place in the high school setting. Do I think it should have been banned? Absolutely.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kids do not lose their First Amendment rights when they walk in the g-school doors.  Just as the physic teacher had a right to protest the art with a letter to the editor.  Why is this so hard for folks to understand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the school got this one correct. It&#8217;s the physics teacher who is out of bounds. Erika Vogt-Nilsen, 17, stirred controversy at the school&#8217;s Winter Art Show with a digitally manipulated photograph showing a sinister-looking puppeteer with strings attached to an image of a crucified Christ. A teacher and six students who thought it mocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}