I feel that being a social work major is my calling and God will take care of me. I am writing this letter because I feel that it is wrong to have people scrapping for a living when they are working to better the lives of others while pro athletes cannot even decide how to spend all of their money. I am simply ready to make our society a more just one. It seems the lesson of the day in Alabama is Religious Intolerance 101. School officials threatened to discipline Smith if she didn't hide the cross under her clothes.
Libertarians agree, but have a better solution.
Any dress code that bans a popular Christian symbol is clearly unconstitutional and we're confident the court will agree. But changing this particular school's dress code isn't the answer. After all, if Kandice Smith wins, the problems will be solved at Curry Middle School. But it doesn't change the fact that thousands of government school districts all across the country have the power to implement a similar anti-Christian ban tomorrow. And it doesn't change the fact that government schools routinely teach values and beliefs that many Christians find abhorrent, while forcing them to pay taxes to subsidize those schools.