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From WORLD. A federal court in Michigan recently ruled against a local school district’s attempt to censor a conservative student organization. When Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School refused to read the Skyline Republican Club’s announcement about its opposition to a proposed abortion amendment in the midterm election, the Ann Arbor–based Thomas More Law Center filed suit against the school district.
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The school’s paper, The Skyline Post, reported that the club first submitted this draft of the announcement on Oct. 21:
“Are you interested in joining our efforts to protect the health of women and children by joining us in our fight to defeat Proposal 3?
“If Proposal 3 is passed it would eliminate health and safety regulations, legalize late-term and partial birth abortion, no longer require physicians to perform abortions, and eliminate informed consent laws.” …
Club leaders contend they received an email from a school administrator refusing to air the announcement due to its direct political nature. As a result, Thomas More filed suit on Nov. 1 on behalf of the club president (whose name is withheld because he is a minor), father David Nielsen, and the club itself. The case received an expedited trial, and presiding U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman ordered the school to read an abridged version of the announcement over the PA system. The abridged announcement removed the line “by joining us in our fight to defeat Proposal 3.”
Proposal 3 was a ballot initiative that added a right to abortion to the Michigan Constitution. It passed with 56.7 percent of the vote on Election Day. …
“The Constitution protects a student’s right to have a different viewpoint from others and share it within the walls of a public school,” said Thomas More attorney Erin Mersino, who represents the plaintiffs. “How else will students learn tolerance toward opinions to which they disagree or how to thrive in our pluralistic society?”
Mesino’s words hark back to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the 1969 case of Tinker v. Des Moines, which confirmed a student’s right to freedom of speech at school. …
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Praise You Father As students speak up and take a stand for righteousness please act of their behalf and give them success AND THEN LET THIS MOMENTUM OF STANDING SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE AMONG THEM . Protect these kids and embolden them with strength and an authority from heaven. Reveal Your salvation and great love for them ! Let the saving knowledge of Jesus be poured out among them IN JESUS NAME AMEN
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Would you come and raise up the young people to Your salvation first.. but also release upon THEM a boldness and a mantle of Your authority to speak to all the gender confusion taking place in the schools. And for those caught in gender confusion You Lord know the why. Please come with a revelation of Your love for them and bring them out.. IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME AMEN