The 32-girl cheerleading squad at Kountze High School have been both showing support for the team and displaying their religious beliefs by painting Bible verses on the banners that players run through before each game. Recently an unidentified spectator …
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Cheerleaders Paint Bible Verses on Game Banners & Atheists Can’t Resist … – The Stir
The squad at Kountze High School near Beaumont, Texas were perusing Pinterest one day when they saw that a high school cheerleading squad in Georgia had painted Bible verses on banners for their team, and they thought it would be a nice way to cheer …
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Texas cheerleaders can keep their biblical banners for now: judge – New York Daily News
The polarizing posters were temporarily banned at the cheer squad’s public high school last month, but a judge reinstated their use and granted another two week extension Thursday as he decides whether they violate the First Amendment. “We’re fighting for …
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Cheerleaders See Victory as Judge Delays Decision on Religious Banners – ABC News
A Texas judge has given cheerleaders in Kountze, Texas, two more weeks to display Bible verses on banners while he decides if they are violating the First Amendment. The 32-girl cheerleading squad at Kountze High School have been both showing …
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Texas fight over cheerleader banners reaches biblical proportions – Los Angeles Times
Two days later, a dozen of the 17-member varsity cheerleading squad and three middle-school cheerleaders who also use such banners sued the school district in Hardin County District Court. Churches held rallies for them. Advocates petitioned the Texas …
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Bible Verses on Banners Inspire Texas Conflict – Wall Street Journal
A Texas public high school cheerleading squad will head to court this week to find out if it can hoist banners inscribed with biblical verses during football games, the latest case to test the sometimes fine line between the separation of church and state and …
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Religious banners removed at Texas school – FS Houston
An east Texas cheerleading squad is at the center of the latest debate about religious expression in the public arena. Some cheerleaders at Kountze High School, located 85 miles northeast of Houston, were writing Bible verses on homemade signs and …
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Religious banners removed at Texas school – FS Southwest
An east Texas cheerleading squad is at the center of the latest debate about religious expression in the public arena. Some cheerleaders at Kountze High School, located 85 miles northeast of Houston, had been writing Bible verses on homemade signs and …
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