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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
UPDATE (Below) According to a Canadian school, a Jesus shirt is ‘hate speech’ and wearing one can get you in trouble and even suspended. Here’s the story by Todd Starnes of Fox News: William Swinimer, a student at Forest Heights Community School in Nova Scotia, was punished for wearing a shirt that read, “Life is [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Persecution, -Politically Correct, -Schools, Canada, Christian living, Christian Witness, Toleration
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
(God Bless the USA -Photo credit: Wikipedia) Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Mass. planned to use Lee Greenwood’s, “God Bless the U.S.A.” song during a fourth-grade assembly. Only problem, the school administrators planned to drop ‘God’ from the lyrics and use the phrase- “We love the U.S.A.” instead. After parents complained the song [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Politically Correct, -Schools, Constitutional Rights, Culture & Religion, Schools and Religion, USA
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) From Citizen Link: Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska issued a preliminary injunction today in favor of the Bronx Household of Faith church and “similarly situated parties”* allowing them to use New York City public schools on weekends for worship services pending the outcome of the latest constitutional challenge raised by [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Schools, Constitutional Rights, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion, Lawsuits, USA
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) We reported on Friday that the 60 churches meeting in NY City public schools had received a stay from U.S. District Court and could temporarily continue where they were. later in the day, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the stay issued by the District court would only apply [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Schools, Constitutional Rights, Court Decisions, Judicial Activism, USA
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) won a temporary restraining order against a New York ruling that bans churches from renting public schools. The stay puts off the eviction for 10 days while the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York takes another look at the case and reconsiders [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Schools, American Church, Constitutional Rights, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion, USA
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) A high school principal blocked a Jewish student from wearing a yarmulke in school until he received written support from his rabbi. It was not enough that the student’s parents approved of the religious wear of their son when queried by the school administrator. Here’s a link to the story in [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politically Correct, -Schools, Culture & Religion, Education, Judaism, Toleration
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) Vanderbilt University administrators held a town hall meeting on Tuesday, concerning the university enforcement of a ‘nondiscrimination policy’ for all on-campus student groups. 4 out of 5 Christian groups on campus have been found to be in violation of the policy which does not allow groups to require their leaders to [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Politically Correct, -Schools, Attacks on Christianity, Education, Toleration, USA
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