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JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Settlement prompts change at CA school district: allows opting out of LGBTQ+ related material

In May 2024, a fifth-grade teacher at La Costa Heights Elementary School in Encinitas, California, read a book titled My Shadow is Pink, which is about a little boy’s gender identity.

JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Illinois pauses assisted suicide mandate for Catholic nuns, doctors as Canada's law expands

Deep-blue states struggle in court to compel religious professionals to spout progressive orthodoxy, and federal appeals court set to rule in similar challenge by pro-life pregnancy centers. U.K. diverges from Canada's approach's

HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Arapaho Tribe Wants Christian Pastor Off Reservation After She Calls Their Ceremonies 'Idol Worship'

Sarah Lucas has been asked to leave the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming after she preached a sermon condemning Arapaho ceremonial ways.

AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - New York high schooler suspended on first day of school for bringing a cup of coffee

A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, […] The post New York high schooler suspended on first day of school for bringing a cup of coffee appeared first on American Almanac .

A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, New York, on September 3 ready to start her senior year. She brought coffee. A staff member told her to finish it or throw it out. Kaputa refused and walked to the main office instead. The school handed her an in-school suspension for violating a brand-new policy banning outside food and drinks. It was the first day the rule existed in practice, and Kaputa was already on the wrong side of it. But what happened next turned a minor…Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Arapaho tribes move to expel Christian pastor who condemned sundance ceremony as idol worship

A Christian pastor on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation is refusing to leave after two tribal councils declared her unwelcome and passed ordinances restricting religious groups, a standoff that pits tribal sovereignty against religious liberty and private property rights. Sarah Lucas, who leads Foundations for Nations Church in Arapahoe, Wyoming, preached a sermon during the Arapaho […] The post Arapaho tribes move to expel Christian pastor who condemned sundance ceremony as idol worship appeared first on American Almanac .

A Christian pastor on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation is refusing to leave after two tribal councils declared her unwelcome and passed ordinances restricting religious groups, a standoff that pits tribal sovereignty against religious liberty and private property rights. Sarah Lucas, who leads Foundations for Nations Church in Arapahoe, Wyoming, preached a sermon during the Arapaho sundance ceremony calling the sacred practice "idol worship." A video of the sermon circulated in July, just as Arapaho people emerged from their weeklong ceremony. The backlash was swift. Both the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribal councils passed ordinances requiring religious groups to seek tribal approval before operating on the Wind River…Open

WASHINGTONPOST (Michelle Boorstein) - Why a lawyer who launched the Christian legal movement believes it’s gone astray

John Whitehead says the Christian legal movement is not what he envisioned when he launched the Rutherford Institute in 1982.

YOUTUBE (Fox News) - This is ‘DISTURBING’: Legal expert WARNS of rise in political violence

Fox News contributor and constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley discusses what he calls a rising trend of political violence on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’ #fox #foxnews #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #lifelibertylevin #jonathanturley #turley #politics #political #politicalnews #government #politicalviolence #violence #firstamendment #freespeech #constitution #constitutionallaw #law #legalnews #civilrights Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews/join

JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Colleges reject Christian, GOP clubs despite First Amendment obligations, free speech promises

State University of New York campus sued for requiring student ministries to make leadership eligible to non-Christians. Whitman College faces legal threat for student government's ideological demands on GOP club.

JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - What would Scalia do? Parents demand legal right to challenge 'state-sanctioned kidnapping' law

They tell SCOTUS that Washington's youth shelter laws, which hide and withhold runaways from parents who object to so-called gender affirming care, are "classic" example of a political majority targeting a minority, as late justice feared.