ACLU of TN must have nothing better to do

Posted on April 4, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, News | 17 Comments

Tennessean: ACLU comes out against school uniforms
The Tennessee arm of the American Civil Liberties Union voiced its opinion against school uniforms today, saying they would seriously infringe on student’s rights.
In a letter to the Board of Education, the group urged board members to vote against the policy because it bans most forms of student expression.
Wrong. [...]

ACLU Loses Court Battle to DoD and Boy Scouts

Posted on April 4, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Boyscouts, Church And State, News | 5 Comments

IRVING, Texas, April 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire
Boy Scouts of America is pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Department of Defense for supporting the National Scout Jamboree.
For more than 25 years, Boy Scouts have held the National Scout
Jamboree every four years at Fort [...]

Legend

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LA Times: Eddie Robinson, legendary football coach at Grambling, dies
Robinson was affectionately known as “Coach Rob” and liked to boast his proudest accomplishment was “having one job and one wife.”
Yet, his nearly six-decade tenure at Grambling transcended dramatic social change. Robinson navigated his teams through Jim Crow laws in the 1940s and the Civil Rights [...]

Muslim Update

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Iraq: Jihadists behead, roast Christian toddler: “”When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to put the meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman’s baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child [...]