Don't trust NPR!!!!!

Our Bible club was interviewed today by a reporter for NPR (National Public Radio) about the whole candycane thing ( http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...threadid=13663 ). We were interviewed by an older grandmotherly-looking woman who seemed to side with us to an unusual degree. The questions seemed unusually easy, and she never really argued with us. After she turned off the tape we found out why: she is going to combine this story with one of a nearby kid who is sueing to legally be able to hand out a newsletter about such topics as talking about how he loves to masturbate while thinking about a certain girl. She quite obviously knew that we wanted no association at all with this case, hense telling us after she recorded the interview. She immediately seemed to change personality and vigorously defend his actions. When we started argueing about it, she claimed that our lawyer said that it was essentially the same issue. After she left, we called the lawyer who stated that he had said no such thing at all and that legally there is in fact a huge difference between something offensive and something obscene.
Something interesting that I did learn from this is that Massachusettes law states that even leud things passed out in school are considered free speech!!! Legally, I could show a Playboy to all the Freshman without any retrebution!!!!!!!

The importent lesson though is that not-for-profit does NOT mean that they won't spin everything to their own purposes.

http://www.sfbg.com/37/14/news_holy_orgasm.html

candy canes are for kids.

I don't see how your post relates to his dilemma.

Atari~It sucks that you were used like that. I don't think it's fair that journalism is hoisted as the search for 'the facts' when, just as easily, someone can construe footage, quotes, and stats to justify their bias and mislead readers/viewers.

Kinda ironic that you can parade a Playboy, but somehow a leaflet and a candy cane is prohibited.

Umm, wow, just wow. It kinda sheds new light on that whole cusufix masterbation scene in The Exorcist.

What's a cusufix?

I could see it now: "Even the school's Bible Club agree's with the boy's action *heavily edited sound bite* 'We lOvE the idea Of him PASSING out fliers.' Have these people any shame?"

heh heh, sucks to be you.

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Dope. Shall we let Satanists, Pro-Abortion and Safe Sex Guidlines for Homosexuals in on this too?

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As long as it doesn't violate rules about what can be said/shown in schools, then yes.

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What is the problem with the masterbation discussion papers? That story can be attached to yours in the context of someone getting in trouble for passing out something they supposedly should be able to pass out at school. You should be supporting him along with the satanist abortion-loving safe-sexing gays unless I'm missing something. =\

So what you're saying is that you've got potentially legal grounds to halt this loon from roping you into her story. My advice- call your lawyer back and start making noise with NPR. Stress your points about her misrepresentation at every possible opportunity so the issue doesn't become one of you being anti-free speech but rather you being against being taken advantage of by a lying bitch.

Or you could do nothing, I suppose. Personally I like the first option.

James

I like the first option too.

You need to climb down off that cross, little man, this act of martyr isn't going well for you.

Seems to me that both groups are trying to hand out their respective ideas/indoctrination/poo-poo at a school.

If you could lose the holier than thou attitude, you might see it as that.

Also, put it in the same thread, or do you need 2x the pity?