Religious Liberty Stops at the Schoolhouse Door
The establishment clause has been so warped from its original intent that Christians are being relegated to the "back of the bus" in our education system at an alarming rate. Click to see an article by Ken Connor, Chairman of the Center for a Just Society, former President of the Family Research Council, and a nationally recognized trial lawyer.
He writes, "In public school classrooms across the country, religious liberty is
under assault. Last month in Florida, two Christian student leaders at
Pace High School were barred from speaking at their graduation ceremony
due to fears they might mention their faith in violation of a court
order stemming from an anti-religious lawsuit filed by the ACLU. Across
the country in California, UCLA administrators grudgingly allowed
senior Christina Popa to thank Jesus in her graduation testimony after
a widespread public backlash against their initial decision to sanitize
any mention of Jesus from her statements (in Colorado, former high
school valedictorian Erica Corder wasn't so lucky). In Pennsylvania,
the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an order banning Donna
Kay Busch from reading passages from her son Wesley's favorite book-the
Bible-as part of his show-and-tell presentation. And in Texas, the
Chairman of the State School Board was recently ousted when the Senate
decided that his kooky creationist beliefs constituted a tangible
threat to young minds everywhere."
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