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Valentine Victory. (Making a Difference).(grade school case involving religious Valentines)(Brief Article)
Eight-year-old Morgan Nyman was in the second grade at Cushing Elementary School in Delafield, Wisconsin, last year when she sought to distribute homemade Valentine's Day cards to classmates. The cards carried religious messages such as "Jesus loves you" and "F.R.O.G.: Freely Rely on God." School officials allowed other students to pass out cards featuring pop singer Britney Spears, the boy band 'N Sync, and Looney Tunes characters, but balked at the little girl's religious themes. Branding them a violation of church-state separation, they refused to allow her to hand them out.
School officials claimed that they were merely implementing policy set by the parent Kettle Moraine School District, so in March 2001 the Florida-based civil liberties law practice Liberty Counsel filed a federal suit against the district on Morgan's behalf, through her parents, Jeff and Shanon Stockhausen. The suit charged the district with violating her rights of free speech and free exercise of religious belief.
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