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Religious rejoinder. (Making a Difference).(case of church and state separation)(Brief Article)
On January 29th, the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the small town of Franklinton in west central Washington Parish, Louisiana. Town officials were forced to remove four signs on public property leading into town, which read "Jesus Is Lord Over Franklinton." Residents of the community had privately financed the signs, but the ACLU claimed that they nevertheless violated church-state separation because taxpayer-funded road crews had erected them.
In response to the suit, residents and store owners began placing signs with the religious message in their yards, in car windows, and at businesses. The Associated Press for March 1st quoted Madonna Fowler, a retired Franklinton teacher, as saying, "This is a small, basically Christian town, and we just strongly believe that Jesus is Lord over all." The Reverend Gene Richards, pastor of a local Baptist church, added, "It seems the ACLU is trying to de-Christianize the community." He recalled that "these are types of displays of the Christian faith that had been accepted, even expected, and now we're being told they're illegal. These signs originally were a declaration of ...
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- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Galloro, Vince August 21, 2000 700+ words
...unique because it involves city-owned property. Marcia Cohen, a St. Petersburg civil rights attorney who represents the ACLU and NOW in the case, said other alliances between Catholic and secular not-for-profit hospitals have been challenged under...
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- Magazine article from: Church & State Leaming, Jeremy September 1, 2006 700+ words
...Separation of Church and State and the ACLU of West Virginia filed a lawsuit in federal...First Amendment principle of church-state separation. The legal action, Sklar v. Board...Americans United and the West Virginia ACLU also cited the ruling in their correspondence...
- House leader Tom DeLay attacks church-state separation.(In The Capital)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Church & State April 1, 2005 700+ words
...hoped the high court would finally recognize that church-state separation is not called for within the Constitution. "I hope the Supreme...in both cases, Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. ACLU, arguing that the First Amendment requires a separation of...
- Fight, God, fight. (absurdities in the church-state separation fight)(On the...
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. March 24, 1997 700+ words
...desist; and there the matter hangs, pending an appeal by the ACLU types to a higher court. Now, the reason District Judge...Valentine's Day interdict wasn't that he thought the church/state separation fanatics had simply gone too far. No, Miss Knutson's lawyer...
- Science test: Pa. school district's 'intelligent design' policy violates...
- Magazine article from: Church & State Boston, Rob February 1, 2005 700+ words
...policy. The history of how the policy came to be, AU and the ACLU argue, shows this clearly. The legal complaint, Kitzmiller...someone take a stand for him?" He also attacked church-state separation, saying, "[N]owhere in the Constitution does it call...
- Top court to consider Commandments cases; Church-state separation at...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 13, 2004 700+ words
...likeness of "Lady Justice" and the Bill of Rights. When the ACLU filed suit in November 1999 to remove the framed copies of the...Commandments posted above his bench. All efforts by the Alabama ACLU to get him to remove it were unsuccessful. The judges also said...
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- Magazine article from: Church & State Conn, Joseph L. October 1, 2008 700+ words
...Florida Association of District School Superintendents, the Florida Association of School Administrators, the Florida ACLU, the ACLU Freedom of Religion and Belief Project, the Anti Defamation League and People For the American Way. Among the plaintiffs...
- Nine justices, Ten Commandments, 2 important cases: church-state separation...
- Magazine article from: Church & State Boston, Rob April 1, 2005 700+ words
...grounds of the Texas state capitol along with other monuments, mostly war memorials. The second case, McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, deals with a Kentucky county that displayed the Commandments on the walls of its courthouse and added other legal...
Source: HighBeam Research, Religious rejoinder. (Making a Difference).(case of church and state...