Saucy Federal Judge Issues 'Non-Kumbaya Order'

[The Straight Story]

Saucy Federal Judge Issues 'Non-Kumbaya Order'

SAN ANTONIO (CN) - In a "Non-Kumbaya Order," a federal judge ordered a South Texas school superintendent and band director to apologize for disparaging an agnostic family who sued to stop prayer at a high school graduation.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who once threatened to sanction two bickering lawyers by making them kiss each other on the lips at the Alamo, subtitled his Non-Kumbaya Order "The Homo Sapien Saga Continues."

Biery found that Medina Valley Independent School District Superintendent James Stanberry and high school band director Keith Riley violated non-disparagement provisions of a February settlement in which the school district agreed to prevent employees from displaying religious symbols, though students would be allowed to pray at graduation.

Biery found that Superintendent Stanberry appeared in an interview on KSAT-TV hours after the settlement was approved, called the litigation a "witch hunt," and said, inaccurately, that the plaintiffs "wanted our teachers to stop wearing crosses.'"

A week later, Riley commented on a student's Facebook page: "[d]on't get me started on the lies and false accusations your friend ... made over last years['] issues." (Brackets as in the Non-Kumbaya Order.)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/27/45048.htm

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