Archive for the '-ACLU' Category
Friday, April 27th, 2012
The Mojave Memorial Cross (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From ABC News: A federal judge approved the lawsuit settlement on Monday, permitting the park service to turn over a remote hilltop area known as Sunrise Rock to a Veteran of Foreign Wars post in Barstow and the Veterans Home of California-Barstow. The park will give up [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Constitutional Rights, Court Decisions, Lawsuits, SCOTUS, USA
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) For once, here’s a case where the ACLU is actually supporting the freedom of religion rather than trying to restrict it in the public square: “NYCLU to City and Brookfield: Accommodate Christmas Prayer Vigil in Zuccotti Park” NEW YORK — The New York Civil Liberties Union today wrote to New York [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Christmas, -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Culture & Religion, Prayer, USA, War on Christmas
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) According to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, offering prayers in ‘Jesus name’ during legislative invocations are unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State took the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina to court over opening prayers given before commission meetings [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Persecution, -Politically Correct, -Politics & Religion, Attacks on Christianity, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, Discrimination, USA
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
(US Supreme Court via Wikipedia) On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Arizona’s Private School Tax Credit Law could continue to be used for religious school tuition scholarship funds. The Arizona Private School Tax Credit Law allows state residents to receive state income tax breaks for donations ranging from $500 to $1,000 [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Schools, Court Decisions, SCOTUS, USA
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) A battle over Christmas is going on in Tennessee over whether Christmas should be even acknowledged or recognized at all in public schools in the Volunteer State. The ACLU mailed a letter of warning to 137 school superintendents across the state not to focus on one religious holiday like Christmas during [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Christmas, -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Schools, War on Christmas
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
(logo via Wikipedia) Facing up to a recent pending lawsuit brought by the ACLU against their high school, Pace High School in Florida, the senior graduating class rose together and recited the Lord’s Prayer during the graduation ceremony defying a ACLU order that forbids any religious expression on campus. In addition, many of the students [...]
Filed under: -ACLU, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Freedom of Speech, -Schools
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