This is great stuff, you couldn't make it up - Pat Robertson has joined with the ACLU in defending a student's right to display the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. Talk about strange bedfellows.

...."'I think this is heading down the wrong path,' says Kevin Snider, chief council for Sacramento's conservative Pacific Justice Institute. 'When students are enjoined in appropriate philosophical speech, we need to encourage that. I don't see where the Bill of Rights should be trumped by the schools.'

And that's where things tend to take off in unexpected directions. When the court agreed to hear the case, the assumption was that it would be an easy win for Starr, supporting the school and the rights of administrators.

But that was before a powerful collection of First Amendment advocates lined up with conservative Christian groups who oppose any attempt to limit their freedom to discuss religion in the classroom. So not only is the liberal American Civil Liberties Union fighting for Frederick, but so is the American Center for Law and Justice, which was created by ultra conservative Robertson.

'Have you seen some of the groups supporting this?' asks Snider. 'I'd be afraid to get all of them in the same room.'....."

Read more about it here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/20/MNGJMOO6UD1.DTL