The court battle for a southeast Texas high school cheerleading squad appears to be over after a judge ruled in their favor. The case revolved around the practice of putting bible verse and scripture on the large banners that the football team runs through …
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Washington Post editorial: Separate Bible verses and school – Dallas Morning News
The football team then runs through the sign to start play. With whom would you think that religious message was associated? The school-sponsored cheerleading squad holding the sign and lined up around it, obviously. The school-sponsored football team, …
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Bench the Bible verses – Washington Post
The football team then runs through the sign to start play. With whom would you think that religious message was associated? The school-sponsored cheerleading squad holding the sign and lined up around it, obviously. The school-sponsored football team, …
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Judge: Bible Verses Can Remain for Now – NBC New York
A Texas public high school cheerleading squad can keep emblazoning Bible verses on banners to cheer on football players at games, at least for now, a judge ruled Thursday. The school district had barred the cheerleaders from using the slogans on their …
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Judge OKs cheerleaders’ use of bible verses on banners – WCSH-TV
The Kountze Independent School District ordered the cheerleading squad to stop using Bible verses on game banners after receiving a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The cheerleaders then sued the district, claiming the order …
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Cheerleading Bible Banners – WDEF News 12
In the town of Beaumont Texas, the school district banned the cheer-leading squad from using biblical scripture on their banners. But the girls fought back… So far, with success, when a judge ruled that the ban violated their freedom of speech. Catoosa County …
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Judge okays Bible banners – KSN-TV
The Kountze Independent School District ordered the cheerleading squad to stop using Bible verses on game banners after receiving a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The cheerleaders then sued the district, claiming the order …
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Judge allows Texas cheerleader squad to use Bible banners – Windsor Star
A Texas high school cheerleading team may continue using religious scriptures on banners at football games for now, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, saying the students had a constitutional right to express their faith on school property. The ruling over the …
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Bible verses ban on pause – Times Record News
Oblivious to the Bible-banner controversy playing out in the courts in southeast Texas, the Burkburnett cheerleading squad had begun making similar banners to encourage their football team. A sign last week posted on the Memorial Stadium wall proclaimed, …
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Judge Lets Cheerleaders Keep Bible Banners – Newser
The cheerleading squad creates huge banners with lines such as “If God is for us, who can be against us?” and an atheist group has sued. The cheerleaders have strong public backing from Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott. Competing …
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