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The ruling is ludicrous. Soon schools won't be able to rent out their buildings to churches on Sundays either (something quite common in my area). What the owner of a building uses the building for and what the school used the building for are completely separate, so unless the school subjected the graduating students to a religious sermon no unconstitutional actions were taken.
7 years ago when I was in the high school symphonic band the school building wasn't finished yet, so we had to find another location in which to perform our fall concert. A local church offered us their auditorium for free if the marching band agreed to perform at a church event. Of course the school agreed. Not a single person complained about separation of church and state or any other B.S. We needed an auditorium, they had one, we used it. It doesn't matter that it was a church. Sure, it would have been a problem if we had to sit through a sermon beforehand, but the event we played at was mostly just a party.
These situations are, from all available evidence, exactly the same. No one in my 2400 student public school seemed to mind. Why is it an issue now?
those situations are even close to the same IMO unless you strip it down to bare basics, school activity in a religious place but a extracurricular activity as a band concert and graduation are not equal.
Neither is your first statement equal either, the school renting their facilities to a religious group is not even close to the school holding their graduation at a church. Nobody has to go to the religious function because of graduation.
Also while I dont think its needed for the ruling the HUGE issue is there were people there handing out flyers and basically recruiting, that makes the issue a done deal and the ruling even more spot on.