SAN DIEGO – A judge in a California court ruled this week that yoga is not an inherently religious exercise, and is thus constitutional to practice in public schools. As previously reported, the Encinitas Unified School District (EUSD) in southwestern California recently started teaching yoga classes to its students after receiving a $533,000 grant from […]
ORLANDO – An atheist activist group is suing one of the country’s largest public school districts after officials allowed some materials to be distributed, but prohibited items of a more controversial and explicit nature. As previously reported, the Central Florida Freethought Community (CFFC) learned in January that a Christian ministry was distributing Bibles in Orange […]
BOCA RATON — A university professor that came under fire earlier this year for having students stomp on a piece of paper that bore the name of Jesus has been reinstated after being put on leave for security reasons. As previously reported, Ryan Rotela, a Mormon, told reporters in March that he was punished by school […]
PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. – A substitute teacher that was fired for giving a middle school student his Bible during the lunch period has been granted reconsideration of his complaint before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). As previously reported, the Commission had dismissed a discrimination complaint filed by Walter Tutka last month due to a lack […]
NEW YORK — Attorneys representing an eighth grade student who was barred from asking God to bless her classmates during middle school graduation have filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. As previously reported, the student, who is only being identified as A.M. since she is a minor, served as co-president of her eighth […]
LOCUST GROVE, Ga. — A mother is Georgia is expressing offense at what she perceives as being gender discrimination after the Christian school that her daughter attends decided to discontinue allowing the girl to play on the boys’ football team. According to reports, the football coach at Strong Rock Christian School recently contacted the parents […]
WASHINGTON – A petition urging the Obama administration to ban the teaching of creation and intelligent design in U.S. schools was recently filed on the White House website. Written by an individual simply identified as “A.J.” from Vienna, Virginia, the 116-word petition claims that even though Darwinian evolution is “treated as scientific fact by 99.9% of […]
COLUMBIA– A group of students from a state community college in Tennessee are seeking legal help after one of their professors required them to wear rainbow ribbons during class in support of homosexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) issued a press release this week regarding the matter, describing how a psychology professor at Columbia State Community College […]
PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. — A substitute teacher that was fired for giving a middle school student his Bible during his lunch period is appealing the dismissal of his complaint before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). As previously reported, Walter Tutka, a longtime substitute teacher for the Phillipsburg School District, was placed under possible disciplinary action […]
OMAHA – Homosexual activists are enraged by a Christian university’s decision to expel an openly lesbian student after she violated one of the school’s conduct policies. Danielle Powell, a 24-year-old Nebraskan, was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grace University (GU) in Omaha. As reported by the Omaha World-Herald, Powell considered herself a Christian […]