The Freedom From Religion Foundation has issued a complaint over a nativity scene appearing on the lawn of a Texas county courthouse.
The group asserts the display may be unconstitutional. The local judge, however, says the nativity scene is not going anywhere and will continue to be on display through the Christmas season.
A New York town’s policy about opening town meetings with prayer was struck down by an appeals court last May. In a bizarre twist, the court instructed the town to invite non-Christian clergy from neighboring communities to open its meetings with invocations because the town consists primarily of Christians, and local non-Christians may feel left out by Christian prayers.
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? Alliance Defending Freedom thinks so, and its attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on this ruling.
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.”