The controversy began when the cheerleading squad at Kountze High School was ordered by the superintendent of the Kountze Independent School District said it had to stop displaying the banners because the district received a complaint. The complaint …
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Cheerleaders See Victory as Judge Delays Decision on Religious Banners – WFJA Classic Hits and Oldies 105.5 FM
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’ Religious Signs Can Stay While Judge Mulls Ruling – Reason
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 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 Cheerleaders Stand for Their Religious Freedom – Christian Post (blog)
This fall the high school cheerleading squad in Kountze, Texas, population 2100, decided they wanted the banners the football players run through to boast positive and encouraging messages. Instead of painting words like “Trounce the Tigers” or “Massacre …
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Texas Cheerleaders Fight School District’s Decision To Ban Religious Signage … – The Inquisitr
At the start of the high school football season, cheerleading squads all over the nation get together to make banners in support of their football team. While most of the signage shouts “Kill the Cats!” Or “Go Eagles!,” one high school in East Texas decided to do …
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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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Letter: Attach religious exception to ban – The Columbian
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for this unless they also want to pay for Susie’s nose job when she joins the cheerleading squad. Jews might want to consider supporting a ban with a religious exception.
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