Yeah, Joan, let's talk about what's going on at Overton High School. Okay. So this is a public high school, and what they're doing is, or what they did, they helped Muslim students celebrate Ramadan by allowing them to leave class to go pray. But that's not all. Apparently, not only did they allow these kids to go leave class and to pray, but in a reserved space on campus during the school day, offering the accommodation daily during Ramadan and once a month during the rest of the year, according to local reports. According to a report published earlier this week in the Nashville Banner yesterday, John Overton High School in South Nashville also supports Muslim students during Ramadan by offering food-free classrooms during lunch for students who are fasting. So the school is making all of these accommodations for the Muslim students. Now, the question is, is this constitutional? So here's part of the story. In the afternoon, students who signed up received electronic hall passes allowing them to leave class for 15 minutes to pray in a reserved space on campus. More than 80 students signed up, according to the banner. Ten teachers also volunteered to make their classrooms a food-free space for Muslim students during the lunch hour during the month of Ramadan, where Muslims fast daily from dawn until dusk. So I'm hearing all of these accommodations being made for Muslim students, and look, I'm not hating on Muslim students, but what if it were Christian students who wanted to use a classroom for Bible study or Jewish students wanting to be able to do their prayers and so forth? I mean, there's a lot of… Well, about the students at Lipscomb that wanted to wear red ties in honor of Charlie Kirk. There is that as well. Yeah. Let's see here. But you know, it didn't go far enough for the Muslim Advisory Council. The Muslim Advisory Council wanted to make sure that the Muslim students could skip heavy physical activities during their fasting period. Really? I didn't hear that part of the story. Yeah, that's in the New York Post version of the story. They seem to be able to dig a little bit more than, say, the Nashville banner. So repeat that one more time. The American Muslim Advisory Council wanted to make sure they sent a letter to the Metro Nashville Public Schools asking educators not only to support Muslim students during Ramadan by giving students a reserved space for lunch, they also wanted them to skip heavy physical activities during the fasting period so that they wouldn't feel more hungry. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Al-Nadir Muhammad, a member of the school support staff, oversees the student prayer period and is responsible for assuring students are following the rules. He also offers support to Muslim students on campus according to the banner. And so now the question a lot of people are asking is this constitutional. This is from Fox News. The U.S. Department of Education says public schools must permit constitutionally protected student prayer and religious expression, including private prayer during the school day, but may not sponsor, organize, coerce, or favor religious activity. So along those lines, what is this my question now? What does the term organize mean? According to the story, I just said this, the school is allowing students to leave class to pray in a space reserved on campus. That sounds a little like organization. The school is offering food free classrooms during fasting. So at lunchtime, these students have a place to go where there won't be any food. A bunch of teachers are volunteering to make that happen. Now I realize the teachers are volunteering, but are they not on company time? Are they not working at that time? Now maybe you could say that they are on their own lunch break and maybe that's the out for them, but it just does seem like, okay, so if you've got teachers that are helping to organize this and watching the students or whatever it is, it is exactly that they're doing, well then that sounds like the school is organizing, helping to organize, helping to organize, and giving these students a place to do this. I guess there is also some prayer rugs that were brought onto campus as well. I don't know if the prayer rugs were the property of the students or if the school provided them. I can't imagine the school actually provided those prayer rugs, but all of this sounds like they're organizing this or helping to organize this for the students. Just imagine the reaction on the other side if this was some kind of Christian organization. That's what I was saying. There would physically be violent outside of school meetings and stuff. This Al-Nadir Muhammad is paid by the school by taxpayers, I assume. So if you want to go down the road of taxpayer dollars on this April 15th, the time that he's on the clock, he's accommodating these prayers. So I mean it does look to me and again, I'm not hating on the students, but I'm asking a question about whether or not this is constitutional or not. So it does look to me like the school is organizing this. Jonathan Scrimetti, of course the Tennessee Attorney General, was on with our friend Michael Patrick Leahy talking about just this. This is the audio. It sounds like Scrimetti, this is on his radar. Is the state of Tennessee looking at that issue? So there are a number of potential avenues there. The basic civil rights laws that apply to education don't. The NFL Draft presented by Bud Light is coming to Pittsburgh and it's your chance to witness the future of the game for free. From April 23rd to April 25th, feel the energy of the NFL Draft. 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But it fundamentally goes to the difference between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. Free exercise says the government can't stop you from practicing your religion. The establishment clause as interpreted and as we hear about every time the legislature tries to do anything these days says that the state can't, well, it says something different, but it's been interpreted to me and the state can't participate in promoting particular religious viewpoints. So if the school is dedicating resources to something that's a very different situation than if the students are self-organizing. Well I expect that we'll be hearing more about it one way or another. Well you heard him say, I expect we'll be hearing about this one way or the other. It's all about the, to me, it's all about the term organizing. It does sound like the school is helping to organize these prayers for these kids and the food free classrooms and all of that. So yeah, the school is providing resources to all of this and again teachers, they are volunteering but these teachers essentially they're on the clock even though it's their lunch time. That's part of the, where we need more information. Jonathan Scrimetti is looking at this but to the point and I don't want to belabor the point Joan but can you imagine if Christian kids wanted to have a Bible study at the same time as the Ramadan prayers, would they be allowed to do that or again Jewish kids if they wanted to get together and pray, would they be allowed to at the same time as the Ramadan prayers Joan? So some of these ideas are, it's often pushed by the media. Daniel Banner just in November, so how many months ago are we talking? Like less than six months ago had another story about John Overton High School and how Muslim kids are being harassed and bullied. This is the media pushing a narrative that's being played out in real time at these schools. Think you're right. Yeah, it's so, so very frustrating. You know, they go through all about religious accommodations but they're talking about it in terms of just the Muslim students. They don't talk about it in terms of Christians or Jews like you have just mentioned. Well, and so the question is, is the school showing preferential treatment and again it seems to me. Because the media does. I'm sorry. Yeah, it seems to me like if there were some Christian organizations on campus I would push this. Like if I was at this school and I was over at the High School and I had a Christian organization, if I was a Christian, I had a bunch of Christian friends, I would push this. And I would say, okay, so we want to have our own time to get out of school, get out of class and we want to go and pray. Either at the same time as Ramadan, whatever, and see how that worked. I would push the envelope on this. I really would. By the way, it was back in 1963 that the Supreme Court said that schools sponsored Bible readings and prayers violated the establishment clause. This is from, I think this, I think I got this from readers. The U.S. Department of Education's guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression updated February 5th, the 2026 under the Trump administration states that public schools must remain neutral and accordingly cannot sponsor prayer, show preference for one religion, allow religious observation while denying similar requests, or excuse students from class for prayer if such events impede the education of other students. Public schools must annually certify their compliance with the guidance in order to receive federal education funding. So there you go. Yeah, remember, and listener noted this, the coach that got the assistant coach fired for praying on the field. Joe Kennedy. I recall that. I don't remember the details. Maybe Sam can look it up. Yeah, I have it. Bremerton High School in Washington, he prayed following games and the Supreme Court last year said he had the right to pray on the field. That was in 2023. And that seems like that story comes up multiple times. I think the Supreme Court precedent, we've got Engel, V. Vitale, and Abingdon versus Shemp as a whole bunch of, I would assume, teachers in 2022 basically ruled that what crosses the line into unconstitutional would be school sponsorship or organization of religious activity, teachers, administrators, or staff actively leading, promoting, organizing, or facilitating prayers. That's what they're doing. Cards or religious events, preferential treatment or favoritism towards one religion, coercion or pressure of non-adherence, which is kind of like a whole thing with Islam. They try to invite you in on the welcoming. It's part of the taqiyah. You know, they're tricking you. Right. A material disruption to education of other students and appearance, just the appearance of official endorsement using taxpayer funded school facilities, staff time, or resources in a way that a reasonable observer would see as a school promoting Islam over other faiths or non-religion. So they're using the school facilities and you've got what, what is it, 10 teachers, I think they said, that are helping facilitate this. So yeah, and they're letting these kids, literally they're letting these kids out of class to pray. And also, and this is from another listener, I would say that if other kids had to remain in class and do classwork while the Muslims got their minutes or whatever to go pray, then it's definitely not fair. And that's, I mean, you forget about that part of it. Everybody else has to stay in class. You know, then do the Muslims have to stay in class longer or like extend their day so that they can also have the, because the law in the state requires that you have to be in the classroom for a certain period of time, a number of minutes. So are they fulfilling the number of minutes? Should they not be able to graduate because they don't have the proper amount of time in class? And that's just par for the course with Islam, right? Like if you're not a Muslim living in a Muslim country, you pay a tax just to exist. So that the preferential treatment has, it just runs rampant in my mind. So we'll have to wait and see if we got a, did we do traffic? Oh shoot, I'm sorry. Joan just real quick, let's not do an official traffic report, but Joan, is there anything going on? Yeah. I think we should go to Parkway at Gay Street in the public square area, be careful and just normal volume delays otherwise. Alright, thank you. What street? What street was that? James Robertson Parkway at Gay Street. Must be where Chris is. Would you stop? What is wrong with you? 820 national is morning news. 9 to 9 7, what's that Joan? It's like he's 14. It is. My host is 12. Actually, you know what? Joan, 13. Okay. I think I'm going 13 on Sam's sense of humor at times. You know what I've noticed? My two favorite segments, my first one and my last one. My first one because at five o'clock I come out ready to go, full of P and V. And then the last one you're also ready to go. The last one I'm also ready to go. Also full of P. And yes, actually more P than V by the last, people know what I mean by V, piss and vinegar. Vinegar. I just wanted to make sure. Because some people, they hear me talk, they don't really actually understand some of the things that I say. I have to speak slower for some people. They're not listening fast enough, Dan. That's exactly right. Or they're listening with a half ear like Phil used to say. Van Gogh listeners. Van Gogh listeners. It's exactly right. It's one of the best lines. I use it on my kids. Do you really? I do. Van Gogh listeners. Are you Van Gogh listening to me right now? If you're not, you can Van Gogh to your room. It's pretty good. Do you get the eye roll from your kids like I sometimes get from Marker and like I always got from my kids when they were growing up? There has been some increased frequency in the eye rolls. Really? Oh yeah. Okay. We're trying to snap them back into place. Now do you ever use... If I rolled my father, oh my gosh, he would not hold off on spankens. Like eye rolling, that's so disrespectful. That's the thunder round. Is that the thunder round? That's the thunder round. You know what I've said in the past? I'll give you something to roll your eyes about. There you go. You know what I mean? Yeah. So... That sounds so... Yeah. Well, I'm used to say... Oh, you think my words hurt. You just wait till I grab the spatula. It's based. The spatula. Yeah. I asked her one time. I'm not gonna... I'm like three years old. I put some stuff over on the table. She's got friends over and she's taking me back to the room with a spatula. No joke. Look her up in the eyes. Sweetest brown-eyed boys can be and say, Mama, are we gonna make pancakes in my room? We did not. She still spank me. Three years old sounds young. For spanking? Yeah. I was a turd. Oh. Not much has changed. Exactly. I'm just a larger turd. So yeah. No, I... We didn't... Well, first of all, if I was gonna spank... I wouldn't use a spatula. It was my pancake spatula. You make the kid go pick their own switch like a good dad. It's exactly right. What if you live in like Arizona and all you got is cacti? It's gonna be a bad day. Yeah. You know, I'm... Again, I'm not much of a spanker, but... Clip it. Oh, no. Clip that one. That's a nasty one. But if I was gonna... That's nasty. If I was gonna spank, I would just use my hand. Right? Also clipping. Also clipping. Okay. It is not my fault that your minds are in the gutter. Leave this part out. Hashtag trends that are, baby. You were telling us that this is your favorite break of the day. You know what? Funny how that changes as time goes on. As we get further into the bit and I continue to... I'm gonna go pick my own switch. I'm gonna go pick my own switch. I'm gonna go pick my own switch. I'm gonna go pick my own switch. As we get further into the bit and I continue to dig my own hole. That always allows new information to change his mind. That's absolutely right. Anyway, no, Joan, did you ever spank your kids? Yeah. What did you use? Hand. There you go. Who needs a good spatula when you've got your hand? Wait. There we go. That's what it would sound like. My dad was very familiar with the belt. Not kidding. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. He was a tough guy. We didn't strangle. All right. So real quick, I think I've done this before, but real quick, let's go around the room. What did we get spanked for as a kid? Give me the one thing that you got spanked for. Joan, you're first. Talking back. Talking back. Yes. All right. Talking back with the expletives. Okay. Oh, thank you. Chris. Scratching my sister's CD on vacation and I have to tell you, even all these years later, it was a setup. I didn't do it. My older sister did it. My memae was on vacation. She was very disappointed in me. Memae. Is that grandmother? Memae hand. Yeah. She was very disappointed. My little sister at the time sold me out and went with the conspiracy queen, the older sister, who's also a liberal. So don't even try and take her side. I got set up. So you, in fact, did not scratch the CD. Why would you be accused of such a thing? I mean, I was an annoying little brother. Shocker. So I think that she wanted to take me out of the equation for a little while. What was the CD? It was like Britney Spears? No, it was probably something dumb. See, you don't even know what CD it was. So clearly you didn't do it. It couldn't have been me. Chris. Dan. We don't tell lies to the audience. Our friends who are listening. So I'm going to ask you this one time. Go ahead. Did you scratch that CD? I did not scratch that CD. Allegedly. How did it get scratched then? These are questions I have too, Joan. Hey, Joan, do you have your Bible? I'd like, I'd like, I'd like Chris to. I will do it. I will do it. I will swear on the Bible. I will swear on the Bible. My older sister scratched that CD. She set me up. Is this still a line of contention all these years later? It is with me. Clearly. It is with me, Dan. Okay. Very good. Do you guys like talk about it over Thanksgiving dinner? The talking has ceased. Oh, is she one of the, is she one of the Libs in your family? Yeah, he just said. The older sister is the Lib. How about the younger sister? She left flood New England and moved to Alabama. I mean, I think that's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. You still working on the older sister? No. That ship, that ship is sealed. I don't know. Like, first of all, I love my older sister and I pray for her, but she is in education. She is not married. She has no children. Her friends are lesbians. If she ever woke up to the conservative side of thinking or Christianity, she would lose everything overnight. She would lose the job that she loves. She would lose the entertainment that she loves. She would lose the friends that she loves and that's all she has. Well, can I ask this question? So, I mean, all her friends are lesbians and she's not married. Does she play for the other team or? I don't know. Whatever. I don't do that. I don't deal with that. All right. So, I love how you took it there. I don't even want to think about it. It's like, is she gay by association? No, I'm just asking a question. I'll tell you what, it was pretty gay when she scratched that CD and bled it on me. I'll tell you that much. Oh my goodness. I got spanked. My brother and I, folks have may have heard this before, I got spanked because my brother and I walked to In-N-Out when we were like, my brother was like 10, I was like eight. And we walked across a very busy Grand Avenue in Diamond Bar, California, walking from our house to In-N-Out. And my brother told me not to say anything. Dan, don't say anything. Don't say anything. I'm not going to do this, but I've got like 10 bucks and we can go to In-N-Out. Don't say anything. So, of course, you knew what I did. I said something. You said I'm not, I'm the hugger for dinner. I had In-N-Out earlier. You haven't shut up about In-N-Out since you were eight years old, apparently, then. Oh no. It's an ongoing thing. But that was probably a loving spanking because you could have been abducted and trafficked. You were young boys. John Wayne Gacy was on a rampage back then. Was he not? I wouldn't know. I don't know if that existed. I'm just saying. Oh, I know. There's a loving spanking. So, all of that pain came from love. Yeah, you know what? The whole, this hurts me more than it hurts you. That's a lie. Not that, not that day, man. That's a lie. My mom, a very tiny individual, but boy, she could pack a slap. She really could. I just... The countdown is on for the 2026 NFL Draft presented by Bud Light. Catch all seven rounds, three days live from Pittsburgh, April 23rd through 25th. Watch every pig live on NFL Network ESPN and ABC. NFL Network is also streaming with NFL Plus. It all starts Thursday, April 23rd at 8 p.m. Eastern. Visit NFL.com slash draft for more information. Subscription required for NFL Plus. Visit plus.nfl.com for terms. Full send golf. You guys know how much I really, really love golf. I think every week would be dope to post on the golf channel. I want to get a lot of guests on here. Salim's going to take a leap. I'm down to be in it. I'm not really worth to play golf. Join the party on the golf course. I was like, let's go to the range. So what are we putting on it? We said 10K, right? 10K. All right. We probably bet more than all the other golf channels, right? 10K, 9-olds. Those guys bet for like cookies. I feel like I'm going to shank it. This guy's been trading like a Navy seal when it comes to golf. I'm very, very excited. Are you excited? Yeah. Full send golf. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. I know that's a lie because I've said that to my kids and it's like, eh, probably doesn't be honest. Well, if you're doing it right, no. If you spank them hard enough, clearly it's not going to hurt you more than it hurts them. It's a myth. You have brought some audio regarding a video of J.D. Pritzker. Yes, J.B. J, whatever. Yes. Let's do that all the time. J.B. for giant boy. Giant boy. J.B. Pritzker. Okay. Very good. Anyway, J.B. Pritzker. Well, they have just signed House Bill 106 into law. Yeah. Chicago. In Chicago, Illinois. Mm-hmm. And it decriminalizes the spreading of HIV. It decriminalizes the spreading of knowingly, knowingly. Knowingly spreading HIV is no longer a crime. Okay. This is the video. We turned down to Illinois after a governor, Pritzker, signed a new law that decriminalizes spreading HIV. Now, the new policy officially repeals a law that was passed back in 1986. There have been eight people who were convicted on the law since it was enacted. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago says 80 have been charged, but for that foundation, this is just as much about breaking a stigma. Oh, what? What the... We're going to break a stigma. Screw you for not knowing that that stranger had HIV. So to formulate how something like this comes about, you must be HIV positive and must have like next to no bedroom game, right? Like how we have the Tennessee Men's Clinic rated M for missing. And so now you're complaining that when you have to disclose that you have HIV, well, you want that to be changed as the law. That's essentially how we got here. Yeah. People are going to get AIDS because of this. Yep. Yep. Because people weren't getting laid. They'll have reason. They'll have more than just reason, but they'll have the ability to come back and sue these people now. Sue JB Pritzker. Sue the entire legislature. Well, they should. And I don't understand the stigma that they're talking about. Either somebody has AIDS or HIV. Somebody has HIV or they don't. And a lot of straight people that have HIV too. And so I just, I don't understand why that. Well, I do because it's Chicago. You know what it did one time? So you know how you say Chicago, right? Chicago. You know what I did one time though? I was having, I don't know what I was losing my mind over. I put a T after sh. Oh. I did. I put a T in between shit. And cargo. Okay. I put a T right in there. I did. So basically, and I can't say it now, but basically I called shit cargo, basically crap cargo. But using the actual SH word. I like it. You know, people actually liked it. Shockingly, I didn't get in trouble. Oh. Yeah, I know. I fooled everybody by saying that it was an accident. Do you want to hear something wild about this? What's that? This is actually a looser law than what California has on the books. California made it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to transmit HIV, but Illinois just decriminalized it outright. That is so crazy. I'm sure it's a looser law. I was shocked to find out the other states though. Maryland has the same law. North Dakota, New Jersey, Texas. Really? Texas? It's first state to do it, 1994. Okay. Wow. So according to the Illinois way things are going to be set up there, you will not be able to sue the state. You could civilly sue the person who transmitted HIV to you, but the success depends heavy on facts as far as negligence, knowledge of, and now that's all. This is where could that not be construed as attempted murder? I mean argument being that you can live with it, Magic Johnson, I guess beat it. But here's the deal. Attempted murder, you are killing someone or trying to kill someone with malicious intent. With malicious intent. I mean you could, right? If you're sleeping with someone gay or otherwise, you run the risk. And so if you are having relations with someone, not using any kind of protection, then you are, it's the risk that you're taking. So you're leaning on personal responsibility for the other party? Yeah, personal. I mean, I'm against this, but there is a responsibility that one has to protect themselves. So I wouldn't say it's attempted murder. Great ad for marriage by the way. So we were talking about me walking in and out and how my mom was like, oh, you'll get kidnapped. One of the supertextors, nobody wanted Dan even back then. Rude. Do you know what I love about the supertext? Anytime I start feeling pretty good about, you know, I've had a pretty good show. Spot on, had some good guests, made some good points, and then all I get is read the supertext line to bring me right back down. So 3618. Great point. It wasn't that long ago that we were locking people up for not wearing masks. And you know, if it saves one life, Joan, if it saves one life, I was accused of attempting to kill the elderly. Oh, yeah. The elderly parents of people that I worked with because I wouldn't get vaccinated. People are dying, Joan. Yes. You want more people to die? They're losing patience with me. Even after COVID, I would still be nervous about letting Joan near my elderly parents. That's probably a good reason for that. All right. Very good. It is 8.53 and Chris, real quick, what do you got coming up? We're going to talk about the J.D. Vance Turning Point USA event last night. Stephen A. Smith. We got some updates on Savannah Hernandez and we'll talk about Iran. Man, I saw that video. Dude, she got leveled. Man. She was on the show yesterday. The vice president mentioned her last night. I had sent her a text and I said, any thoughts on the VP bringing you up tonight? I know Sav and I know her dad. I'm like, that's pretty cool. Yeah. And she goes honored, but also so emotionally exhausted. I'm in bed dizzy, so I can't fully appreciate this. This is last night at 9.30. She's got a concussion, right? Yeah. She said, the FBI better bring charges if they don't after the VP called this out, then it makes it even worse. Has she met J.D. Vance? Yeah. Okay. So she's probably interviewed and so forth. Well, she was at the Antifa Roundtable at the White House. God, that's right. She was also one of the people that received the Epstein binders, the infamous Epstein binders. The infamous Epstein binders. So she had to walk up the Pambon and say, hey, could you sign this for me? Honestly. You know what I mean? Like autograph it. Maybe she could sell it because essentially it was worthless. Well, it is going to be worth money someday. I mean, there was only like, what, 20 of those that were made? Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. No, you're right. We'll see you on eBay. Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I hosted the Stacking Benjamin's podcast. You know what? A lot of us get taxes wrong. Filing your taxes is basically data entry. There's been this trend of people going, oh, it's so cool to file my taxes in August. It's so awesome. Don't worry. I have an extension. It'll be fine. I like totally do it later. Stop. Do your frigging taxes now. That was a really good fashion voice. Did you like it? You do that more frequently, please? Yes, every show from now on. I'll be like that. Stacking Benjamin's. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.
