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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 14:04 |
 When it comes to the rights of Christian teachers and students in the public school there’s much confusion these days. For example, the principle of Wilson Middle School in Fishersville, Virginia just sent a letter to his staff that threatened to fire anyone who helps sponsor a religious club on campus. Claiming that the Constitution does not allow the government to establish any religion, the principle argued this meant school employees could not show any support for a religious club. But this turns the First Amendment on its head.
The First Amendment does prohibit the government from establishing a religion, but it also equally prohibits government hostility towards religion. The Supreme Court ruled faculty help with the administration and oversight of a religious student group does not conflict with constitutional principles.
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Contact the Principle today and urge that he rescind his threat to fire those who help with religious clubs on campus. - Email:
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 15:25 |
 In Loudoun County Virginia a battle is already waging over the display of a nativity scene during the Christmas season at the County Courthouse. Last year a resolution was passed by the Loudoun Country Supervisors that allowed religious displays. But now the courthouse grounds committee has decided only to allow secular displays. Virginia State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has become involved and rendered an opinion that religious displays should be permitted as long as other faiths and beliefs are allowed representation. Under the U.S. and Virginia constitutions, religious and nonreligious holiday displays are legally allowed on government property. TAKE ACTION: The Loudoun County Supervisors need to hear from you today. Urge them not to restrict constitutionally protected religious expression. Below is a list of members of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Please contact as many as you can. Scott York, Chairman: 571-258-3522; 703-771-5988 Susan Buckley, Vice Chairman: 571-258-3344; 703-771-5033 Kelly Burk: 703-777-0203; 571-258-3345 Jim Burton: 703-777-0210 Sally Kurtz: 703-771-5028; 703-737-8571 Andrea McGimsey: 703-777-0205 Lori Waters: 703-771-5088
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 16:28 |
 A controversy erupted when a school board in Collier County, Florida banned a Christian organization from distributing free Bibles to interested students during non-instructional time. The school board argued that it was unconstitutional. But after a lawsuit was brought against them, the school board reversed their position. Bibles and other religious materials can’t be banned from distribution as long as non-religious literature is allowed to be handed out. Public schools don’t have the right or obligation to shut down religious activity when it occurs during non-instructional time and is voluntary. The Supreme Court has ruled, in the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, that students don’t lose their constitutional rights when they enter school grounds or participate in school activities. Schools are not religion-free zones and any attempt to make them so is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court remarked on this issue, saying that neither "students [nor] teachers shed their constitutional rights . . . at the schoolhouse gate" (393 U.S. 506 (1969)). The Court argued that their expressions cannot be limited to a certain forum during school. Therefore when a student "is in the cafeteria, or on the playing field, or on the campus during the authorized hours, he may express his opinions..." (393 U.S. 512 (1969)). And because the First Amendment protects the right to religious freedom of expression, students are therefore allowed to express these views. The Constitutional and Federal rights of students can be simply broken down as the: - Freedom to Meet with Other Students for Prayer, Bible Study, and Worship
- Freedom to Wear Clothing Depicting Religious Messages and Symbols
- Freedom to Express Religious Beliefs on Campus
- Freedom to Share Religious Tracts on Campus
- Freedom to Pray Voluntarily
- Freedom to Carry a Bible or Other Religious Literature
- Freedom to Prepare School Assignments and Projects From, and Expressing, a Religious Perspective
- Freedom to Observe Religious Holidays on Campus
- Freedom to Organize Religious Clubs
- Freedom to Live According to Their Religious Beliefs While on Campus
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 14:43 |
 Prolife sidewalk counselor, Mary Pine of West Palm Beach, Florida is being targeted by the U.S. Justice Department who seems intent on making an example of her. Pine knows firsthand the tragedy of abortion and for twenty years has been counseling women entering abortion clinics not to kill their unborn babies. Now, Attorney General Holder has charged Pine under FACE, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law. If convicted, Pine could be sent to prison for six months and fined ten thousand dollars because she stepped in front of a vehicle as it was entering the clinic. But the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that FACE can only be applied to actual physical force or threat of force. So while terrorists and murders run free, Holder wastes Justice Department resources in what appears to be a politically motivated prosecution meant to intimidate pro-lifers.
TAKE ACTION: Help us urge Attorney General Holder to stop wasting our tax dollars by this frivolous prosecution of peaceful pro-lifers.
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Monday, 30 August 2010 13:14 |
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 Last year Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, California was arrested and jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech outside an abortion clinic.
Oakland has bubble zone laws that restrict the speech of pro-lifers. They can’t be closer than eight feet from any individual within a one hundred foot radius of an abortion clinic. But no victim testified against Reverend Hoye, only employees and volunteers with a financial or ideological interest in the abortion clinic. Still, a judge sentenced him to three years' probation, thirty days in jail and a one thousand dollar fine. Hoye appealed and the courts have overturned his conviction. But other pro-lifers are being arrested around the country under unjust bubble zone ordinances that have been ruled unconstitutional. In Chicago, pro-lifer Joe Holland was recently arrested for allegedly engaging in disorderly conduct. The charges against Joe Holland have been dropped, but the unconstitutional bubble zone ordinance remains. Because the city dropped the charges, Holland can’t legally challenge the constitutionality of the ordinance. TAKE ACTION: Help us pressure the city of Chicago to resend their unconstitutional bubble zone ordinance. Contact the Mayor of Chicago, Richard Delay, and demand that the city repeal this unconstitutional law.
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