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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:54 PM Oct 2012

The Koutnze cheerleader prayer banner thing

follow up story last week..."apparently" the scripture signs all over town that were put up last week were being removed.

Now...when the Texas AG backed up the run-through signs, I was like, well......

and then the signs started disappearing, I was like well...bullshit. This is starting to stink like some homemade propaganda.

NOW....
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/19843854/gov-perry-issues-statement-in-support-of-kountze-cheerleaders

The entire thing appears to be something designed to blow up right around election time to force the Obama administration Justice Department to act OR they are setting up a case for the SCOTUS.

>>>snip
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today emphasized Texas' commitment to protecting religious liberties for all, supporting Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's efforts to intervene in court on behalf of students at Kountze High School who want to display religious language at school sporting events.

"As government leaders, we owe it to people of all religions to protect expressions of faith, to ensure everyone has the right to voice their opinions and worship as they see fit," Gov. Perry said. "During the upcoming session, we'll continue to find ways to preserve religious expression and explore ways to protect people of faith from this ongoing onslaught."

The case involves cheerleaders at Kountze High School, who paint banners with scriptures from the Bible to inspire the football team before games. After being ordered to stop by the school district, the students and their parents sued the district in state court. The attorney general is intervening in the pending lawsuit.

"After receiving a menacing letter from an organization with a reputation for bullying school districts, the Kountze Independent School District improperly prohibited high school cheerleaders from including religious messages on their game day banners. Those banners, which the cheerleaders independently produce on their own time with privately funded supplies, are perfectly constitutional," General Abbott said. "The State of Texas intervened in this case to defend the cheerleaders' right to exercise their personal religious beliefs – and to defend the constitutionality of a state law that protects religious liberties for all Texans."

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