Leukemia patient beaten by Texas cops

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Texas is fine. I'm not sure I'd want to live in Galveston, though.

In an Aug. 1 filing in state district court, attorneys for Trinity Episcopal School argue that the lawsuit must be dismissed because of "broad protections for the free exercise of religion" in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"As a religious institution, Trinity has a constitutionally protected freedom to make decisions regarding the discipline of its students without judicial interference," states the filing, first reported by the Galveston County Daily News.

The suit was filed in May against Trinity; its headmaster, the Rev. David Dearman; and the parents of three students alleged to have been responsible for the bullying.

Among other acts, the lawsuit says the students handed origami that resembled a Ku Klux Klan member's hood to the boy and claimed their parents were affiliated with the organization. The boy was enrolled at Trinity from 2014 to 2016.

'Galveston Bay is just like a fine woman,' said James Stanfield, a shrimper who boasts of his membership in the Ku Klux Klan. 'If you rape her, she's never any good anymore.'

Not long after, Beam and the other Klan members held a fish fry to benefit white fishermen. It had poured that day—dashing any hopes of burning crosses—and the crowd dwindled to about 30. In press interviews at the event, Beam positioned himself as a reasonable “moderating influence” who would broker a deal between the Vietnamese and the white fishermen. He wasn’t racist, he said, but “a friend of white Americans who have legitimate complaints.” Of course, he still ejected a local Mexican-American television reporter. “This is a gathering for white Christians,” he said. “We don’t have to put up with these arrogant stations sending blacks and Mexicans to interview me.”