June-July 2013
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THE CRUMBLING DOWN OF AMERICA
IT’S NOT BY ACCIDENT…..
.jpg) The Bible and the Christian Faith WAS the Foundation for America. Below are some of numerous quotes by the men who helped sculpt the most blessed nation in the world. Little did they know the country they helped to shape would one day be a ‘safe haven’ for many around the world to flee to………
- John Jay, the Original U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, said “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
- Second President John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights warned his fellow countrymen in a speech to the military in 1798 “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
- Even Benjamin Franklin, who is known as the least religious and most secular of the Founding Fathers, cautioned that the future and continued freedom of America rests on a righteous people…he quoted “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
The Christian faith was a welcomed and major part of American history for most. The Holy Scriptures of the Bible draped and permeated practically every aspect of American life.
BRICK BY BRICK A SELECT FEW HAVE CHIPPED AWAY
AT AMERICA'S FOUNDATON
The Founders and the people of the day lived out the Christian faith and believed a better moral and righteous America would prosper. Many generations would follow their footsteps of wisdom until around 1962. Then God and His Word gradually became ‘an enemy’. A select few influenced our great nation, in such an injurious way, that America today is barely recognizable from just 50 years ago. Three leading proponents in removing God who facilitated in the crumbling of free speech and religious freedom was Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the ACLU and communist party of America.
O’Hair was an atheist who tried to defect to the Communist Soviet Union in 1960. In 1955 she joined the Socialist Labor party and later espoused a Soviet style Marxist view. She then became part of a radical Socialist Workers party who was founded by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the Bolshevik leader who led the November Revolution with Lenin in the Soviet Union in 1917. O’Hair even became involved with a Communist pro-Castro group. At one point she decided she wanted no part of a country that loved God so she headed for the USSR. She was warned living in the USSR would be very difficult but still O’Hair attempted to move to the Soviet Union in 1960. Her request for Soviet citizenship had to be approved by the presidium of the Supreme Soviet and was to take a long time. A disgruntled O’Hair returned to America with her son. While she enrolled her son, William, at Woodbourne Junior High in Baltimore she saw where children cited the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord’s Prayer. She became very angry and confronted the school office and shouted obscenities and yelled “This is un-American and unconstitutional.” After a very intense argument O’Hair warned the school they had not heard the end of this from her. O’Hair brought this to the local media’s attention and shortly thereafter the situation became national news. The Communist party in America then realized this woman would be the perfect pawn for their ‘ill’ wrought objectives. Therefore, O’Hair became the throttle for the removal of school prayer and the precipitous ground work for removing religious expression in the public square.
In early 1962 the ACLU and the communist party brought suit on O’Hair’s behalf at the local level and a Judge Pendergast dismissed the petition and in April 1962, the Court of Appeals ruled against the appeal. Then Kerpelman, the ACLU attorney, appealed to the United States Supreme Court and on June 17, 1963 in an 8-1 decision in favor of O’Hair the United States Supreme Court…..
Banned Pray from American Public Schools
Prayer had been a leading American way of life for 343 years
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NOT ONE LAW SUIT OR BRIEF WAS FILED IN OPPOSITION TO
O’HAIR’S CHALLENGE TO BAN SCHOOL PRAYER
During the Court hearings earlier before the decision Kerpelman told the Court that the Constitution had erected a “wall of separation” between church and state. Justice Potter Stewart (the only dissenting judge) asked Kerpelman where this wording appeared in the Constitution knowing that it certainly did not. Kerpelman still continued with the ‘myth’ of distortion and said the text was not explicit on this point but had been interpreted as so. The Supreme Court reversed the Maryland Court of Appeals and ruled that Bible reading and prayers in school were unconstitutional and wrote in their decision “Although religious freedom is embedded in our public and private life and while freedom of worship is indispensable in America, the government must be neutral and while protecting all, must prefer none and disparage none.” In Murray v. Curlett and Abington v. Schempp, the Supreme Court favored two people and ruled against the vast majority of Americans who were Christians. Furthermore, the rulings went against the very grain of the people who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and who lived out and practiced their Christian faith publically.
SINCE 1962 ALL THE BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS AND TRADITIONS HAVE SLOWLY BEEN RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL, YET THEY WERE ACCEPTED AND PRACTICED BY THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION
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TWO DIAMETRICAL QUOTES
“If you oppose God, you oppose America.”
John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of Princeton College
“If we (the Communist) can destroy America’s religion and morality, that is a key to undermining their culture and society. Then America will crumble from within.”
Joseph Stalin, dictator of the former Soviet Union
Numerous historical writings clearly indicated the Founders intent and belief to the learning of God and Jesus Christ among Americans as essential. Even, President Thomas Jefferson in 1802, acting as President for Washington D.C. schools, required the Bible and the Watts Hymnal to be used in the classrooms.
CRUMBLING DOWN OF AMERICA
IT’S NOT BY ACCIDENT…..
“My obj ective in life is to dethrone God and
destroy Capitalism."
Karl Marx, the founder of Communism
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Time Line of CHRISTIAN RELIGION in American Schools
(Listed below are some of our nation’s history as it relates to religion - continued on the following pages)
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed “Having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith…furtherance of the ends aforesaid.” The Pilgrims taught their children the Bible and the Christian faith.
1624 - Virginia General Assembly rules that Indian children be rounded up and educated in religion and civilization.
1636 - Harvard College founded by John Harvard a Presbyterian minister.
1642 - Compulsory School law passed in Massachusetts to assure that children could read their Bibles.
1670 - Indian Christian Church founded on Martha’s Vineyard to educate Indians.
1690 - Connecticut Law passed that children be taught to read so they could read the Holy Scriptures.
1690 - First New England Primer is published. The alphabet was taught using Bible verses for each letter with questions on Bible moral teachings - was used in American schools of all types public, private, home and parochial for 200 years.
1693 - Rev. James Blair established William and Mary College to prepare students for the ministry.
1699- Yale was founded by ten ministers to further the reformed Protestant religion. Students were required to read Scriptures during morning and evening times of prayer.
1717 - Rev. Cotton Mather starts classes for Negroes and Indians to teach the 3 "R's" and religion.
1746 - Princeton founded by Presbyterian Rev. Jonathan Dickinson. Morning and evening worship attendance of students was essential.
1764 - Brown University established by the Baptists to further the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening” in America.
1766 - Dutch Reform Church begins Queens College (Rutgers University) teaching languages, liberal, useful arts, sciences and the divinity preparing students for the ministry.
1770 - California Missions established teaching Indians about God.
1779 - Delaware Indians bring children to George Washington for education. Washington says “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ.”
1781 - Congress approves the purchase of Bibles to be used in schools.
1783 - The first Noah Webster (Blue Book) Speller is published, with its opening sentence declaring “No man may put off the law of God.” This speller was widely used in American schools filled with Bible verses.
1784 - Jedediah Morse, father of American Geography, published the first Geography text book which contained references to Christianity.
1787 - Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance (outlined requirements of new territories to qualify for statehood). In Article 3 of the Northwest Ordinance it stated the people of the territories were to establish schools to teach religion, morality and knowledge. Almost every state admitted to the Union had written this in their own State Constitution stating schools were to teach morality and religion. They all used the Bible as the teaching bases.
1789 - Georgetown becomes the first Catholic college and seminary in America to train Roman Catholic clergymen.
1796 - In George Washington’s Presidential farewell address to the nation he encourages Americans to learn Biblical teachings to sustain a moral and just country.
1802 - Thomas Jefferson acting as President for Washington D.C. schools requires the Bible and the Watts Hymnal to be used in classrooms.
1808 - Washington’s Farewell Address is published as a separate text book. His Address was looked upon as one of the most important political documents in American history. In the speech Washington put emphasis on that for America to succeed it must have a moral society which can only come from roots in the Christian faith. This text book was used until the 1960’s.
1830 - Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, letter is published in support of using the Bible as a school textbook.
1836 - McGuffey reader was published which teaches the ABC’s along with Bible verses. This reader is looked at as an “eclectic reader” which combined instructive axioms and proverbs, fundamentals of grammar and selections of the finest English literature.
1844 - Girard proposes to teach morals without the Bible. The Supreme Court Rules that American schools are to teach Christianity using the Bible. The case was argued and won by Daniel Webster. (Videl v. Girard)
1867 - Morehouse College and Howard University are founded. The schools helped ex-slaves become teachers and preachers.
1870 - One room Public Schools begin to take hold in the U.S.
1890 - Supreme Court rules that America “is a religious people…this is a Christian nation: as such it is fitting that its people would teach their children the Christian faith. (The Trinity Case)
1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance was written for school children to recite at school.
1892 - The American Teachers Union declared schools should continue to teach morals from the Bible as schools are turned over to the various States from Christian Churches. Prior to this many schools had been run by churches of various denominations. Many State Constitution’s mandated the teaching of morals, religion and knowledge.
1900 - Virtually all school text books published to this point in time contained Biblical references or teachings.
1923 - William Jennings Bryan argues to limit funds to Presbyterian schools that teach evolution.
1925 - Tennessee governor signs law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. ACLU lawyers take a school district to court (famous Scopes Monkey Trial) to try and have evolution taught in Tennessee Public Schools.
1925 - Florida State legislators passes law that required daily Bible reading in public schools.
1946 - Dallas schools publish textbook titled “Bible Studies Course for New Testament.” The book contains questions and answers about the life of Jesus Christ.
1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules time set aside for prayer in public schools is unconstitutional. (McCollum v. Board of Education)
1954 - The words “One Nation Under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1961 - There are around 1000 Christian Schools in America.
1962 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that children may not recite a state written prayer in school. (Engel v. Vitale).
1963 - U.S. Supreme Court bans individual school prayer (Murray v. Curlett) and Bible reading in public schools. (Abington Township School District v. Schempp)
1965 - Supreme Court rules that a child may pray silently to himself if no one knows he is praying and his lips do not move.
1980 - U.S. schools report the lowest S.A.T. scores ever after 18 straight years of decline following the 1962 ban on school prayer.
1980 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Ten Commandments cannot be posted in classrooms, “for a child might read them, reflect upon them and then obey them.” (Stone vs. Graham).
1983 - President Reagan proposes a Constitutional Amendment to allow school prayer.
1984 - THERE ARE NOW 32,000 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS in America to counter the Supreme Courts secularizing of the public school system.
1985 - U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Alabama law requiring schools to have a moment of silent meditation at the beginning of the day.
1987 - U.S. Supreme Court overturns a State Law requiring a balanced treatment of creation science and evolution. (Edwards vs. Aguillard)
1992 - U.S. Supreme Court rules Clergy may not offer prayer at graduation ceremonies. (Lee vs. Weisman)
1999 - Two Students at Littleton, Colorado High School shoots eleven students. None of the students were allowed to see the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not Kill” displayed in a public school.
2000 - U.S. Supreme Court rules student initiated or student led prayer at football games unconstitutional. (Doe vs. Santa Fe Independent School District)
2004 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds the words “One Nation Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
2008 - Christian run schools and most home schooling programs continues to produce students with higher academic test results than secular public schools.
2012 - Sandy Hook, CT - 20 year old man murders 20 elementary children and 6 adults. Guns for protection were prohibited in the public school. For fifty years the lst Amendment severely threatened now the 2nd Amendment. |
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DID YOU KNOW of the first 108 colleges and universities founded in America 106 were founded as Christian schools. Of the first 126 colleges 123 were Christian?
DID YOU KNOW that among the current 45 Communist Objectives Goals (established back in 1958) - GOAL #28.... Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” and GOAL #17…. “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in text-books.” was READ into the Congressional Record in 1963 as a warning about Communism influencing the freedom of America’s Republic?
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ON JANUARY 10, 1963 (Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 ) THE CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS WERE READ ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF CONGRESS BY HON. A.S. HERLONG, JR. (D) OF FLORIDA. EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON.A.S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963. Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen. [From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen] Communist Goals can be found at: http://disruptthenarrative.com/2013/01/08/45-communist-goals-by-dr-cleon-skousen-1958/ Read how every goal but one has been accomplished!
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The intent of the First Amendment:
The establishment clause of the First Amendment was enacted only to prevent the federal establishment of a national religious (Christian) denomination … and to prevent the encroachment on religious freedom by the federal government.
.jpg) AMERICA once upon a time…..
was a land where legal scholars sought the intent of the Constitution and the First Amendment before attempting to apply it to court decisions. However: The modern-day courts are not in line with the Founders purpose for the First Amendment.
First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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THE COURTS REDEFINED THE FIRST AMENDMENT NOW TO MEAN:
- “Congress” Original Intent means “Congress” now means: a ‘student’ or a citizen, teacher, soldier, school, community, etc
- “make no law” Original Intent means “a law made by Congress”- now means: “The people cannot express one’s faith in a public arena” (a person is not making a law when their faith is expressed in public).
- “an establishment of religion” Original Intent was “to prevent a particular national Christian denomination” now means: “to express one’s formerly constitutionally protected ‘free exercise of religion’ in an official public forum or arena”
(Interpretation: The student, citizen, teacher, soldier, school, community, etc can no longer freely exercise their religious faith in the public arena)
Once Again, The Founders Intent was to prevent a ‘single’ national denomination NOT prevent the freedom of religious expression whether at work, school or play. The infamous 1963 school prayer and bible reading ban not only took away religious freedom expression but, also took away free speech the other important component of the First Amendment.
Those who oppose the mentioning of God and Christian principles in the public square use the isolated phrase “separation of church and state” written in a letter by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s sole intent, when he wrote to the Danbury Association, was to reassure the concerned men that the federal government did not have the constitutional ability to regulate, restrict, or interfere with religious expression.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE CRUMBLING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- 1947 Everson v. Board of Education -
The Supreme Court in 1947 disregarded the constitutional meaning of the “establishment of religion” to mean a single denomination (within the Christian religion). Instead they used a phrase  written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association -“The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.” (Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S.1,18 (194). The Founders made it very clear the intent of the ‘establishment of religion’ clause.
The ‘wall’ Jefferson referred to in his letter was the wall to restrict federal government from encroachment upon the people NOT allow encroachment upon the people.
Another example that the establishment of religion intent was meant to prevent the federal establishment of a Christian denomination is in what George Mason wrote. Mason took part in the Constitutional Convention and is known as “The Father of the Bill of Rights”. He wrote: “All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect nor society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.” (Kate Mason Rowland, The Life of George Mason (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892), Vol. I, p. 244). The Courts have deliberately misused the separation of church and state metaphor used by Jefferson. Jefferson’s intent of the ‘church and state’ phrase was to reassure those concerned of federal encroachment. The dictates of ‘another‘ Christian denomination on their state of Connecticut could not happen because of the Constitution and the First Amendment. Certainly, no major constitutional right has been decided based on a few words written in a private letter.
The Courts have DELIBERATELY decided it should mean the opposite of its true intent. Furthermore, over course of time many people then would believe the phrase to be part of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence or actual meaning of the First Amendment. The ignorance of the masses is what the ‘Federalist’ referred to when referring to the people that put them in office. They believed a large government was necessary to compensate and rule the ‘uninformed’ and the ‘dumb’. On the other hand, the Anti-Federalist believed in individualism and freedom to learn or not to learn. Freedom to make a ‘little’ money or a ‘lot’. Freedom to ‘work’ hard or ‘work’ very little. They believe a people should be free to determine their own destiny by being represented in a republic under freedom not ‘ruled’ by the hand of a powerful few. |
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Below are a few of the many writings which reflect Thomas Jefferson’s adamant belief of the inability of the government to Regulate, Restrict or Interfere with Religious Expression.
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No power over the freedom of religion…is delegated to the United States by the Constitution. (Kentucky Resolutions, 1798). |
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Our excellent Constitution…has not placed our religious rights under the power of any public functionary. (Letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1808). |
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In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general (federal) government. (Second Inaugural Address, 1805). |
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted [prohibited] by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions…or exercises. (Letter to Samuel Miller, 1808). |
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It had become an universal almost uncontroverted position in the several States that the purposes of society do not require a surrender of all our rights to our ordinary governors…and which experience has nevertheless proved they [the government] will be constantly encroaching on if submitted to them; that there are also certain fences which experience has proved peculiarly efficacious [effective] against wrong and rarely obstructive of right, which yet the governing powers have ever shown a disposition to weaken and remove. Of the first kind, for instance, is freedom of religion. (Thomas Jefferson Letter to Noah Webster) |
 
YOU DECIDE - FREEDOM
OR SOCIALISM - (COMMUNISM)
Truly, there are extremely two different forces of people that walk this earth. One group live to oppress - they feel superior to the others. These forces continue to create rules and regulations for the others. These forces believe the others are incapable of knowing how to live their lives.
THEN…..there is another force. A people that believe life was given to them by a ‘Being’ much greater than they. This ’Being’ breathed life into every man, woman and child. This ‘Being’ Jehovah GOD who established a life of freedom housed under a higher ‘moral code than that of mans. The gift of life is freedom in itself. They believed this inalienable right was not to be surrendered nor transferred.
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 A FEW EXAMPLES WHERE OUR FIRST AMENDMENT
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN SEVERLY RESTRICTED
(and still happening on a daily basis)
- It is unconstitutional for Christians to pray public prayers that reflect their own personal faith and beliefs. Doe v. Santa Fe I.S.D., 1995; Furley V. Aledo I.S.D., 1999; Bacus v. Palo Verde U.S.D., 2002; Rubin v. City of Burbank, 2002; Wynne v. Town of Great Falls, 2004; Hinrichs v. Bosma, 2005; Doe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Bd., 2006; Turner v. City Council, 2006
- A citizen riding a public bus cannot give a fellow rider a book containing Bible Stories. Anderson v. Milwaukee County, 2006
- For years, many schools have eliminated the use of Christmas carols; at other schools, if carols are used in school concerts, the words are rewritten. For example, “Christmas” is changed to “winter” the words of “Silent night, holy night” are changed to “Silent night, cold in the night” or “winter night” and some schools even prohibit purely instrumental arrangements of Christmas carols they deem this inappropriate. (Countless documentation too numerous to record but available upon request).
- It is constitutional for public schools to display Jewish and Islamic religious holiday symbols but not constitutional for Christian ones. Skoros v. City of New York, 2006
- In Minnesota, a state employee was barred from parking his car in the state parking lot because he had religious stickers on his bumper. Conrad deFiebre,”...man’s religious freedom thwarted ;a revenue employee not allowed to display..” Star Tribune (Minneapolis),July2,2004, p.3B.
- 2005, In nine western states, courts ruled constitutional for public schools to require a three-week indoctrination to the Islamic faith in which all junior-high students must pretend they are Muslims and offer prayers to Allah and were encouraged to take Islamic names, call each other by those names, wear Islamic garb, participate in Jihad games, and the Koran during those three weeks; yet the same court ruled it unconstitutional for those students to voluntarily mention “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Eklund v.Byron U.S.D., 2005 and Newdow v. U.S. Congress, 2002
- 1985-2002, It is unconstitutional for a school graduation ceremony to contain an opening or closing prayer, even if it is the decision of the graduating class. Graham v. Central Community Sch. Dist, 1985; Kay v. Douglass Sch. Dist., 1986; Lee v. Weisman, 1992; Gearon v. Louodoun Co. Sch. Bd., 1993; Harris v. Joint Sch.Dist.,1994; Deveney v. Db. Of Educ., Kanawha Co, 2002.
-2005, In Russellville, Kentucky, a library employee was barred from wearing a necklace because it had a small cross on it; and in Clymer Pennsylvania, a school employee was suspended for wearing a necklace with a cross. (Draper v. Logan Co. Public Library,403 F. Supp.2d 608(W.D.Ky2005) (Nichol v. Arin Intermediate Unit 28, 268 F. Supp.2d 536 (W.D. Pa.2003).
- In 1979: It became unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to ask whose birthday is celebrated by Christmas. Florey v. Sioux Falls School District, 464 F. Supp. 911 (D.S.D. 1979)
- In cities in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia and Nebraska, not only were citizens not permitted to hand out religious literature on public sidewalks or preach in public areas, but several were arrested for doing so. Colston v. Crowley Independent School District, No. 4:06-CV-00097 (N.D. Tex. June 20, 2006); Hodges v. City of Lebanon)
- Classic historic paintings may be displayed in schools - unless they depict something religious. Washegesic v. Bloomingdale Public Sch., 813 F.Supp.559 (W.D. Mich. 1993), aff’d, 22 F. 3d 679 (6th Cir. 1994); Sklar v. Harrison County Sch. Bd, 1:06-cv-103 (N.D.W.Va. Oct.18, 2006).
- It is unconstitutional for fellow students of slain students in schools to include religious elements or acknowledgment among the personal remembrances in memorials of their fallen friends. Fleming v. Jefferson C. School Dist., 2002.
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