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Something BIG is in the air! 1994 is going to be a pivotal year. I can FEEL it--you can feel it--numerous Christian leaders and prophets of the Lord are declaring it! Pastor John Hickle of Christ Church, Los Angeles, received a word from the Lord that evil will be ripped from the land in June.
-- Paul Crouch, March 1994, TBN Newsletter
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News: Lawsuit challenges Christmas-music ban
Posted on Friday, December 16 @ 06:26:16 PST by John |
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A parent is challenging a New Jersey school district's ban on Christmas music with a lawsuit that has reached a federal appeals court. Michael Stratechuk, who has two children enrolled in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, filed a brief yesterday in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, asserting the school district's ban on religious music conveys the impermissible, government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
As WorldNetDaily reported, last year the district expanded its no-Christmas music policy to include instrumental music. Instead of tunes about Jesus, and even Santa Claus, the 40-member Columbia High School brass ensemble was limited for the first time to seasonal selections such as "Winter Wonderland" and "Frosty the Snowman."
Represented by the Thomas More Law Center, a public-interest firm, Stratechuk claims the ban deprives his children the right to receive information and ideas, an inherent corollary of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and academic freedom.
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Re: Caesar is Lord Over State Communized Schools, Silly Statist Churchgoers! (Score: 1)
 by chrisliv on Sunday, December 18 @ 23:04:59 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yeah,
It's amazing how Statist churchgoers are still begging for a return to a monopoly for their own religious sentiment within State Schools.
That thing called the First Ammendment implies no guarantee for such a monopoly by the Christian Religion within a hostile State institution. These kind of issues have been settled before, usually with a School Board continuing "its" policy, and the churchgoers leaving with their hat in their hand to do what they want on their own time, at lunch, or after classes.
Caesar is Lord over the State, its Schools, and its Residents.
Of course, Private (state-incorporated) Schools are permitted to have whatever religion's music they like, at least for the time being. Can't you just feel that religious liberty? Not!
Better yet, for homeschooling parents or children in non-state-incorporated education programs all of this is a non-issue.
Public Schools are Communistic. They are founded on extortion through property taxes, which holds all homes hostage for randsom to pay teachers who have not been hired by the so-called homeowners and who may not want those services.
If churchgoers were really sincere about the Kingdom of our Lord (not Caesar) and The Golden Rule they wouldn't participate in the extortion ring known as Public School.
I know, I know; some of the more communized egos will say, "Well, since they already extort the money anyway, if our children don't participate in Public Schools we'll loose the benefit that the free schooling provides." And, Christianity aside, I'm sure Virgil has heard actual comments like that from atheists years ago in Communist Romania.
Peace to you all,
C. Livingstone |
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