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ADF attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Thursday on behalf of a Christian group barred from displaying a cross in a Chesapeake public park. City officials told members of Christian Rights Ministries that their 12-foot high, white cross must be removed from the park following a Fourth of July parade.
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Federal Suit Asks Court to Stop School Board’s Discrimination Against Christian Club
On Monday April 21, 2008, Matt Staver and Steve Taylor represented Liberty Counsel by appearing in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Virginia (CEF) and requested an injunction against the Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools.
The school board charges CEF a facilities usage fee for holding its after-school Good News Clubs, while granting free use to Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other organizations. The fee is a discriminatory burden on CEF that prevents the Good News Clubs from expanding to all the schools in the district.
The United States Supreme Court has already ruled that Good News Clubs must have the same access to school facilities as other after-school programs. Liberty Counsel has won victories for CEF in numerous states from coast to coast and frequently litigates when school districts do not reverse unequal treatment of Good News Clubs.
We do not know how long the judge will take to rule in this case, but we will keep you informed. Please pray for success so that Good News Clubs can continue to expand in Virginia.
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Student and teacher Christian civil rights and free speech
Nothing in the First Amendment or its establishment clause converts public school into a religion free zone, or requires Christian students and Christian teachers to leave all religious beliefs or Christian expression behind at the schoolhouse door. Christian students and teachers have Christian civil rights including freedom of expression, free speech.
Government public school endorsement of student and teacher Christian civil rights
While the government may not use public schools to convey official endorsement of religion, non religion or any particular denomination, the government's schools may not discriminate against private religious expression during the school day by teachers or students. As long as such religious expression does not interfere with curriculum or become disruptive to the education process. Both students and teachers are free to express their closely held religious beliefs. While teachers must exercise some caution not to act in such a way as to suggest a government endorsement of religion, they are free to express their beliefs in any venue that would allow for other personal expression. The Government and school officials may engage in view point discrimination to inhibit Christian free speech or religious expression.
Student and teacher Christian civil rights and free access to public school facilities
Public schools must allow religious organizations, Bible Clubs and Christian activities the same equal access to public school facilities as they do for any other non-religious group. Christian Civil rights are protected in the same way as other civil rights. In fact our constitution calls our Christian rights inalienable. They are rights granted by our Creator and not by our government.
Limits on the civil rights of Christian students and teachers and separation of church and state
title='Seperation of Church and state limits rights of students and teachers'>The United States Supreme Court did remove devotional school prayer and devotional Bible reading from public schools with a series of cases regarding school prayer in the 1960's . Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962); Abingdon v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963). These decisions led to a misguided emphasis in public schools on .the wall of separation between church and state,. a phrase, not found in any founding document. It was first used by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist assoc. to describe the effects of the newly written Constitution. He assured the Danbury Baptist that the first amendment had constructed a "wall of separation between church and state" which would prevent the government from creating laws that would inhibit religious expression, permit the founding a state religion or create laws favoring one Christian denomination over another.
Separation of church and state and Christian Civil rights in the public school For the public schools, their administrators and teachers, Separation of Church and state and the establishment clause of the first amendment means that public school teachers and public school officials, who represent the government may not favor religion over non religion or favor one religion over another or one Christian denomination over another. That is why teachers may not conduct religious devotions and prayer or devotional Bible reading during class time during a school day and why school officials may not sponsor prayers at graduation services or post religious symbols in such a way as to endorse the religion.
Use of the Bible in public school curriculum It is important to note, however, that public school teachers may use the Bible and other Christian literature in instructional ways-as literature, history, comparative religions, or ethics in the classroom, as determined by the supreme court in Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980). For this reason efforts to ban the Bible and religious books from the classroom and public school libraries failed. It is only formal, structured prayer and formal, structured devotional use of the Bible in public schools that are forbidden under the First Amendment as an establishment of religion.
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