The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal district court Monday on behalf of two families from Dove World Outreach Center whose children were not allowed to wear "Islam is of the Devil" T-shirts to Alachua County public schools.

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The police practice of detaining and charging people for impolite behavior gives the police arbitrary power to harass citizens they do not like. This practice must stop."

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A new lawsuit has been filed against the Cheatham County, Tennessee school system over a range of church/state violations including allowing Bible distribution in classrooms, teacher-endorsed prayer at football games and school-sponsored prayer at graduation ceremonies and the te …

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A treaty banning blasphemous speech would infringe upon free speech. And, it's hypocritical given the Taliban's destruction of 2 huge statues of the Buddha.

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One of the low points for the defense in Kitzmiller was the testimony of Alan Bonsell, who was President of the Dover Area District Board of Education at the time of the adoption of the policy that provoked the lawsuit.

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"Officer, arrest that man! He repeatedly assaulted me by slamming his hard nose into my soft fist."

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We don't have a free press if police are allowed to play editor.

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An interesting perspective, from The Goldwater Institute and Americans for Tax Reform.

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A subsidized press is a press beholden to it's benefactors.

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A MARTA bus driver is on suspension following allegations that he forced passengers to pray before allowing them to exit the bus.

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This was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19.

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In oral arguments this month in the case of Salazar v. Buono, which concerns the constitutionality of a 5-foot cross on federal government land in the Mojave National Preserve, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that the cross is a universal, rather than a Christian, symbol.

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Terri Mahan testified earlier in the hearing when the Board was putting on its case in chief. Hamilton elected not to cross examine at that time because he would call her now.

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The main burden of Daubenmire's testimony was that he took responsibility for having organized the April 16, 2008, public demonstration in Mt. Vernon to bring attention to the Freshwater situation.

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In a widely reported controversy, Illinois prosecutors responded to a Protess-led, university-based journalistic investigation of a 31-year-old murder conviction with subpoenas seeking "virtually every conceivable record" relating to the school's newsgathering activities, i …

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The Obama administration on Monday came out strongly against efforts by Islamic nations to bar the defamation of religions, saying the moves would restrict free speech.

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How many times have you heard someone say: "I'm totally supportive of free speech and the First Amendment, but …"?

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Once [the new Hate Crimes legislation] becomes law, the Department of Justice will have broader authority to investigate and prosecute violent crimes "motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gen …

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In a legal twist that challenges the notion of what a prevailing party is, a federal court clerk on Friday awarded $19,688 in court-related fees to the attorneys who represented high school teacher James Corbett, sued two years ago for making anti-Christian comments in class.

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There is a lot of strong language being used in today's political debate. As this article reminds us, this is nothing new.

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President Obama promised in his campaign to preserve President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative aimed at helping social service programs sponsored by religious organizations win federal grants and contracts.

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Judge DeWeese tried to pretend that he had a secular purpose in putting up the display:My purpose in creating and displaying this poster was to express my views about two warring legal philosophies that motivate behavior and the consequences that I have personally witnessed in my …

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An advertisement in a UNLV newspaper has the politically correct up in arms. Some of their overwrought statements are quite amusing.

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. Our elected and appointed leaders should not be allowed to gag one side while allowing the other free rein.

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Glenn Beck strikes nother blow, the FCC has been stacked with left-wing marxists, and anti-free speech advocates.

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