School Prayer

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 1:15 PM Jun. 18, 2013
Religious Freedom Defended on College Campus

We recently helped a student at a public university in Oregon, to obtain a religious exemption from his university’s requirement that freshmen live on campus. As a result, he will be able to live off campus in a faith-based household with other

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 3:58 PM Dec. 14, 2012
No Words

There are no words that can adequately convey our sense of sorrow at the horror in Connecticut. We mourn for and with the victims of today’s shooting and pray for the fulfillment of Christ’s promise in the Sermon on the Mount: “Ble

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 5:13 PM Dec. 13, 2012
2012 Victories: Schools Cannot Ban the Bible

This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2012. All too often angry atheists and others peddling the false dogma of the so-called “separation of church and state&rdquo

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 5:38 PM Oct. 18, 2012
Cheerleaders Allowed to Display Bible Verses at Football Games

A court has just ruled that high school cheerleaders who were banned by their school from holding banners with Bible verses have a constitutional free speech right to display those signs at football games. The state court ruled that at least until t

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 2:45 PM Jun. 12, 2012
Painting Over the Cross; Protecting Pagan Symbols

When a public school allows students to paint demonic and pagan icons on its walls for permanent display, can the school then censor a painting of a cross? Can a school go so far as to literally wipe away one religious symbol while leaving others fro

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 11:43 AM Jun. 12, 2012
Student Allowed to Use Bible in School

The ACLJ recently assisted yet another student in amicably resolving an unfortunate situation where a government official misunderstood the law. A 7th grade student from Missouri recently contacted the ACLJ regarding her teacher’s refusal to al

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 6:12 PM Feb. 28, 2012
School Will Now Allow Student's Religious Flyers

We were contacted in early February by a concerned parent in Indiana regarding a student’s ability to pass out religious flyers at his school. The flyers contained an email address and website where students could submit prayer requests. When t

Content type: DocketBlogPost | 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