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"All of this, of course, raises the question, among others presented here, of what 'diversity' means and whether a school may promote one view of 'diversity' over another. Even accepting that the term 'diversity' has evolved in recent years to mean, at least colloquially, something more than the dictionary definition, the notion of sponsorship of one viewpoint to the exclusion of another hardly seems to further the school's purported objective of 'celebrating diversity.'

The Ann Arbor News says, "In one passage, [U.S. District Judge Gerald] Rosen wondered "what message concerning intellectual integrity the school is conveying to students by making an argument that is so transparently disingenuous and offensive in its … attempt to torture the facts … to justify its ultimate decision."

During arguments, Rosen said "Don't you think that smacks of government and religious totalitarianism. Isn't that what this government was founded to get away from? … Isn't that how we got to book burning in Nazi Germany back in the 1930s?"

Rosen is no special friend of Christians. According to The Witches' Voice web site, Rosen once ruled that Wiccan students at Lincoln Park High School should be allowed to wear pentagrams as an expression of their religion.

Pioneer High School may owe up to $100,000 for attorneys' fees, according to the Thomas More Law Center.

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