People have to realize that a removal of a prayer in school does not change the God that we worship. This young women did what she thought was right and a judge agreed with her. She should not be treated badly. As some in the country try to take God out of every thing they can we as Christians should remain calm and respond with love. It took just a few women to remove prayer from the schools a few years ago but they did not remove prayer from the people. We as Christians are still able to worship at our local churces and pray and help those in need in our state and around the world. Christians give more money to those in need then all other relgious and non relgious groups in the USA and around the world. Each day children in need wake up somewhere and are fed and shown the love and kindness of Christ. It will take more than the removal of a plaque or removal of prayer in a school to change a love which peple have for their God. No blog from a Atheist can remove one act of kindness shown. So go ahead remove the plaque from the school, take out the statue in front of a Govement Building that has the ten commandents on it or take away the nativity scene during Christmas in front of the town hall, but you will never remove God from the hearts of His people.

Traditionally in America when a person knowingly and willing publicly pursued a course of action which was antagonistic to the majority in their community they could expect to be a recipient of the proverbial "brick through their window" as an expression of community distaste for their provocative behavior. Today we generally use the Internet instead.

RDT:

We have no desire to remove God from your hearts. We respect your First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. To attempt to prevent you from worshiping when and how you wish would violate that right. The case here is not about removing God from the world, but about ensuring that no one religion is established over another, or over a lack of religion.

I also respect the many charitable works which Christians do all over the world; however, it's erroneous to imply that only Christians perform charity. In fact, atheist charitable giving has increased sharply in recent years. The members of r/atheism, one of the world's largest atheist forums, recently donated $203,000 to Doctors Without Borders, and the world's largest charity, the ~$33 billion Gates Foundation, was founded and is run by Bill Gates, an atheist.

Edward:
Please check into info on Bill Gates see below:
You must have read at times here and there that Bill Gates is an atheist. This is absolutely wrong.

Those who make this claim use Bill Gates’ PBS (David Frost) interview, Nov. 1995, when Gates said that “I’m not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I’m a huge believer in. There’s a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very very positive impact. … In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a God or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

Besides that interview they also use TIME profile (Jan. 1996), when Gates answered a question if the human soul is special, even divine, by saying that “I don’t have any evidence on that”.

I don’t know if other interviews are available and adequate to give us a better view, but those two clearly prove Bill Gates to be an agnostic, i.e. someone just ignorant, having a double belief, that God may exist or not. He doesn’t know and he has not so far been able to believe or to reject Him, yet he even feels himself close to Christianity as regards moral principles.

MoonBeam, “One reaps what they sow” does not apply to this situation. Jessica never threatened to jump anyone, nor punch anyone in the face, nor curb stomp anyone. Jessica has not sown any seeds of terror or violence.

Unless you meant those who assault her will reap what they sow, perhaps when they get sent to juvie.

The good thing is that Christian teen will be in the training school and away from their crazy parents. Perhaps they may have a chance to get exposed to more rational ideas than the magic sky daddy

Really MBW? Did she sow violence? Did she sow verbal abuse? Did she sow vulgarity? Did she sow contemptible religious judgementalism? Once again your execrable religious bigotry is showing.

Verbal abuse? Vulgarity? Contemptible religious judgementalism?
Are we to consider those unacceptable standards of discourse?
How about this quote then-
'Filthy, stinking, piss-covered HYPOCRITE. Drunk on the piss from his twisted vision of his god.'
I dunno, but that quote, from one Paul Ruggeri on the Cranston Patch, seems to satisfy the proposed criteria more than anything else I've read here by those supposedly 'hateful' Christians.

Really, Small Change? That's worse than anything you've heard anyone say to Jessica Ahlquist? Then you must not be paying very close attention to this story, because if you were, you would have read this blog entry, filled with screenshots of people threating violence against not only Miss Ahlquist, but her younger siblings and her ill mother:

http://jesusfetusfajitafishsticks.blogspot.com/2012/01/ahlquist-screenshots-if-by-christian.html

Read that, if you can stomach it, then see if you can come back and tell me honestly that you haven't heard any hate from the Christians in this debate.

This is unspeakably spiteful. To say that a young woman who stood up to an illegal and divisive act deserves to be terrorized goes against every shred of moral decency I can imagine. It is the essence of condoning terrorism, it is the essence of promoting hate crime. You should be ashamed of yourself.
There is nothing wrong with "attacking" a tradition if it is wrong. I don't care if there is a tradition of Slavery, it is wrong, I don't care if there is a tradition of Sexism, it is wrong, and I do not care if there is a tradition of intolerance as well as privilege for the "In Crowd" as we see in this case, It is wrong and should be attacked in court, as we also see in this case.
Threatening physical harm and endangering the well being children because a group one happens to be part of no longer gets illegal special treatment in a public institution can not be condoned by any decent moral human being.
I do not understand how a person could possibly say that Jessica and her family deserve to be harassed, threatened, and intimidated for standing up for her rights and be able to face themselves in the mirror. But then again, I unfortunately know there are people who think Martin Luther King Jr. deserved to be killed for standing up for his rights. Evil does exist in this story, not in the form of a young woman who fought for her rights, but in the form of a hateful, malicious mob calling themselves Christians.

Oh Small Change! You make me laugh! Leave you alone for just a few days and you think that you can actually think for yourself!

Yep, I stand by those words! You and MBW ARE both "Filthy, stinking, piss-covered HYPOCRITEs". And you are both STILL "Drunk on the piss from your own twisted vision of your god."

Both of you worship a god that in NO way resemble the one spoken of in the bible or in any of the noblest interpretations of christianity. You are far more vulgar and obscene than any poetry I could spin for you.

Yes, that was a personal attack. Bathe in it. And yes it was also a demonstrable illustration of the fact of the way you have both behaved in other threads.

Now go away or I will taunt you a 2nd time!

Soo... 78% of of christians think that god has nothing better to do than influence the outcome of a football game? A game based on human intellectual capacity, physical daring, strategy and skill? They want god to circumvent ALL OF THAT just so one 'believer' can bathe in his glory?

YOU are what is wrong with this world, sir!

It doesn't matter whether the banner bothered anyone or not. It was unconstitutional and illegal. The banner advocated Christianity and was thus in violation of the establishment clause of the Constitution. Cranston High School, as a part of America's public school system, is a facet of the federal government, and is therefore subject to the constitutional prohibition on establishing one religion above another religion, or above a lack of religion. Jessica Ahlquist ensured the integrity of the Constitution and the fair treatment of religious minorities. I think she should be applauded, not called a troublemaker.

Then again, you know who else was called a troublemaker? Rosa Parks, the woman who complained about a perfectly fine bus seating system that bothered no one. (Sarcasm, in case it's not obvious.) I'd be proud to be a "troublemaker" in that category.

In this case, cyberbullying was not expressing any opinion, offensive to liberals or not. It was posting Miss Ahlquist's home address online, threatening torture, rape, and murder, and threatening physical brutality against not only her, but her younger siblings and her sick mother. I think that bringing up the debating habits of liberals obscures the case a bit.

The First Amendment is not under attack in any way. Students and teachers can still pray any way they wish. The "speech" in this case was an explicitly Christian prayer that violated the establishment clause of the United States constitution. Taking it down has nothing at all to do with the First Amendment.

Really? How is telling a young girl that she should be raped eternally in hell something that should only upset a liberal? Conservatives don't have a problem with that as well? If so, THAT would be one of the many things wrong with conservatives.

EG Daddy, I think your only argument on The Patch and most likely in your life is making fun of people who you think/ASSume are liberals. Come up with a REAL argument and maybe people will listen to you. Ha!

Why do the religious feel the need to be so pervasive into the public life? The history of religion in general has shown how accepting of different cultures they can be.

You're not following the Bible, the words of the prayer, or the First Amendment. And you call yourself religious...Read up on your doctrine buddy.