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Old 08-19-2003, 12:33 PM   #89 (permalink)
Bill O'Rights
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Originally posted by archer2371
The courts are even violating the Constitution by restricting the free practices of Christianity avidly in the past 50+ years.
No one is suggesting the restriction of the free <b>practices</b> of Christianity...only the craming of it down our throats. Unless of course craming it down our throats <b>is</b> the free practice of Chritianity

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In a high-school class in Dickson, Tennessee, students were required to write a research paper using at least four sources. Despite the fact that the students were allowed to write about reincarnation, witchcraft, and the occult, because student Brittney Settle chose to write her paper about the life of Jesus Christ, she was given a zero by the teacher. Britney Kay Settle v. Dickson County School Board
I'm sorry, but you failed to provide the reason that she received a "0". Was her work sub-par? Your source (The Power Point presentation "The Judiciary: Then and Now") fails to mention it.


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Originally posted by archer2371
In Omaha, Nebraska, a student was prohibited from reading his Bible silently during free time, or even to open his Bible in school. Gierke v. Blotzer
Yeah...I remember this from 1989. (I live in "Bible Belt" Omaha)The student was <b>not</b> sitting quietly, reading his Bible. He was causing a disruption, in the classroom, by boisterously drawing attention to himself and prosteletizing (sp). He pointed out how he was "saved" because unlike his classmates, he chose to read the Bible. The teacher confiscated it (because the kid was causing a disruption), which started a maelstrom in the press. Blah blah blah...the rest of the story.
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