http://blog.au.org/2006/12/falwells_flub_j.html
Check this out:
Virginia public schools have a Friday forum they call "backpack mail". The children get a folder on every Friday filled with the usual take home stuff, and community news.
"The dispute started last summer when Gabriel and Joshua Rakoski,twins who attend Hollymead Elementary School, sought permission to distribute fliers about their church’s Vacation Bible School to their peers via “backpack mail.” Many public schools use special folders placed in student backpacks to distribute notices about schools event sand sometimes extra-curricular activities to parents.
School officials originally denied the request from the twins’father, Ray Rakoski, citing a school policy barring “distribution of literature that is for partisan, sectarian, religious or political purposes.”
A Charlottesville weekly newspaper, The Hook, reports that Rakoski “sicced the Liberty Counsel on the county,” and the policy wassoon revised to allow religious groups to use the backpack mail system.Liberty Counsel is a Religious Right legal group founded by MathewStaver and now affiliated with Falwell."
So, do you know what's cool about that? The local UU's pagans decided that they would use the open forum as well. Not because they agree with proselytizing, but because they weren't going to let Jerry have all the fun.
Take that, Jerry. Never thought that a little freedom of religion would mean all religions, and not just yours, huh?