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Elementary School Censors ‘God’ in 1st Grader’s Veteran’s Day Poem

Dec 4, 2012JerryReligious FreedomFile Cabinet, Free Speech, Religious Freedom

From Alliance Defending Freedom — “An elementary school has removed a sentence referring to “God” from a 1st-grader’s poem commemorating her grandfathers’ military service. The school forced the student to remove the sentence prior to presenting the poem at a Veteran’s Day ceremony last month.

“The censored sentence, referring to one of her grandfathers who served during the Vietnam War, read, ‘He prayed to God for peace, he prayed to God for strength.’Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Friday on behalf of McDowell County residents who are concerned that similar acts of unconstitutional censorship could occur again.”

Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Nevada’s Definition of Marriage

Dec 4, 2012JerryMarriageMarriage

A federal court has ruled that Nevada’s marriage amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Among other things, the court’s opinion stated, “Because the family is the basic societal unit, the State could have validly reasoned that the consequences of altering the traditional definition of civil marriage could be severe.”