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Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 11:36 AM Apr. 18, 2012
Is the Bible Harmful to Children?
Are Bible verses and biblical truth harmful to children? Should the state protect even Christian kids and parents from the Word of God? Until the ACLJ stepped in, it appeared that the state of Washington was well on its way to censoring the Christianity right out of a Christian day care center. Promise Community Center, a Christian, nonprofit day care, called the ACLJ for assistance in late February. Its State Daycare Licensor had demanded that Promise remove a poster depicting the "Tree of Goo Continue Reading...
Filed in: Free Speech | by CeCe Heil | 1:03 PM Apr. 12, 2012
Student Free Speech Upheld in New York State
We recently helped to ensure that a 7th grade student could continue to pass out religious messages to other students at her public middle school in New York State. The student had notes with encouraging Bible verses delivered to a few other students. The parents of one of the students complained to the Principal, who then informed the student that she could not pass out personalized religious notes in the future. After the student’s mother contacted us, we sent her a letter explaining th Continue Reading...
Filed in: Free Speech | by CeCe Heil | 12:26 PM Mar. 21, 2012
Victory: Religious Speech Granted Equal Access in Hawaii Public School
We were contacted in early March by the parents of a fourth grade student in Hawaii regarding a local school’s policy that discriminated against religious speech. The School invited parents to include messages to their students in the upcoming school yearbook. When the parents’ message to their student included an encouraging scripture quote, however, the school notified the parents that while the message would be included, the school would censor the encouraging scripture quote. Th Continue Reading...
Filed in: School Prayer | by CeCe Heil | 3:21 PM Feb. 21, 2012
Helping to Get a Good News Club Started in Pennsylvania
We were contacted by the Director of a Child Evangelism Fellowship organization in Pennsylvania. The organization had successfully started after-school Good News Club programs at various public schools in the area, but the Principal of one elementary school denied their request. Various curriculum-related and non-curriculum related activities and group meetings occurred at the school after hours, including Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts meetings. We spoke with the Director about the situation and s Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by CeCe Heil | 1:05 PM Dec. 28, 2011
Little Girl Denied Bible Club in School
Recently a sixth grade girl wanted to begin a Good News Bible Club that would meet at her school at the same time other clubs meet on school grounds. Her principal told her no, claiming that having such a religious club in the school was illegal. The principal said that those opposed to religious expression had been pressuring the entire school district to prevent any such activity in the school. The student’s parents contacted the ACLJ. Unfortunately we learn of incidents like this all t Continue Reading...
Filed in: Free Speech | by Matthew Clark | 10:55 AM Dec. 19, 2011
2011 Victories: A Little Girl Can Read Her Bible in School
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2011. In September, Morgan – a second grade girl – was named “special student” of the week by her Pennsylvania elementary school. She was given the customary privilege of being allowed to read a story from her favorite book to her class. Morgan’s favorite book was the Bible, and she wanted to read a Bible story to her classmates. However, when her t Continue Reading...
Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 12:45 PM Dec. 9, 2011
A Victory for Religious Liberty at Kansas State
Yesterday, the ACLJ won a fast but important victory at Kansas State University. On Wednesday, the student body president of KSU’s Salina campus contacted us with an urgent question: Could the university censor his graduation speech? KSU student Brett Cooper was set to give the student body president’s traditional address to students, but the university objected to religious references in Brett’s proposed text. In emails, one administrator told him that any mentions of relig Continue Reading...
Priscilla Gammon reads her Bible during a weekly Bible study meeting at the West Unity Methodist Church in Unity, New Hampshire
Priscilla Gammon reads her Bible during a weekly bible study meeting at the West Unity Methodist Church in Unity, New Hampshire July 5, 2011. New Hampshire was ranked the second least religious U.S. … more
Filed in: Free Speech | by ACLJ.org | 5:05 PM Sep. 30, 2011
2nd Grade Girl Permitted to Read Bible in School
The ACLJ represented a second-grade girl this week in Pennsylvania who wished to read a story from the Bible in her classroom as part of her special privileges for being named the classroom’s “special student” of the week. It was the customary practice in Morgan’s classroom that each week a new student be selected as the “special student.” The selected student is then given special privileges including the right to share pictures with the class, bring a show a Continue Reading...
