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A Christian legal group filed an appeal this week to fight a ban against a church meeting in homes. With only seven members, Oasis of Truth Church was ordered to stop holding all activities, including Bible studies, leadership meetings and fellowship activities, in Pastor Joe Sutherland’s home in Gilbert, Ariz. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys contend in the appeal that was filed Wednesday that banning religious meetings of any size or frequency in a home is unprecedented and unconstitutional. Read more »

A legal group on Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s poster that was censored by a school because it contained the image of Jesus. When Antonio was in kindergarten, he drew a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world” for an art project about the environment. Read more »

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear Snyder v. Phelps, a case dealing with anti-gay protests at the funerals of American soldiers, is stirring up debate over whether the privacy rights of grieving families trumps the free speech rights of demonstrators. Read more »

A Christian legal group announced Saturday its intention to sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray. The decree bars school officials from “promoting, advancing, endorsing, participating in, or causing Prayers” and from “orally express[ing] personal religious beliefs to students during or in conjunction with instructional time or a School Event.” Read more »

Controversy over a morning prayer meeting at a high school in Georgetown, S.C., was settled this week as district officials offered a compromise. Students at Georgetown High School will be allowed to form their own prayer club as long as it is open to any student and is sponsored by a faculty member. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Team Obama Recruiting at Public Schools; Global Warming Boss Takes Chauffeured Ride 1 Mile to Work; Atheist Group Opposes Postage Stamp Honoring Mother Teresa; Star Wars Text Makes it to Earth; Canadian Premier Flees Government Health Care to United States; The Super Bowl Kerfuffle; South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature; and more! Read more »

Is it true that corporations don’t enjoy freedom and constitutional protection because they aren’t people? Or is this merely an excuse to oppose the rights of some organizations while favoring protection for others? Read more »

The New York Times features a story on the remarks of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas concerning the recent SCOTUS decision restoring First Amendment rights to companies and groups. When you know the real history of who’s attacking freedom in America and why, you might be VERY surprised. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Live Free…Or Die;Attempt to Repeal SD Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban Involves More Deception; Climate Scientist Warns of ‘ClimateGate USA’; Amazon Conned: More Egg on the IPCC’s Face; Justice Alito: ‘Not True’ To Obama’s Anti-First Amendment Spin; Head of NASA’s Goddard Institute Supports End of Industrial Civilization; Christian Apologists: Gospel of Oprah is Bad Advice; South Dakota Joins the Firearms Freedom Movement; and more! Read more »

It didn’t take long for the liberals to get bent out of shape over Justice Samuel Alito’s head-shake and mouthed, “Not true” in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union statement that allowing the First Amendment to work will “open the floodgates for special interests–”special interests” like the free-market companies that have been muzzled for years at the expense of the Constitution. Read more »

Insider Online has some great analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overdue overturn of campaign finance law that has been quashing free speech for years. This involves the double-standard against regular companies over media companies, and concerning the protest that “companies aren’t people” and thus don’t enjoy free speech rights. Read more »

This latest moronic drivel from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is a perfect illustration of exactly how upside-down, bass-ackward, Isiah 5:20 modern liberals have become–and how desperately the American people must work to rid our government of those like him. Read more »

We have some great news coming out of the U.S. Supreme Court today. In a stunning reversal of strangling campaign finance law, the Supreme Court has reversed part of McCain-Feingold (aka the Incumbent Protection Act) and some older law to allow corporations, unions and other groups to spend directly on election messages, and to do so in the closing days of an election. Read more »

All government departments in Sonoma County, Calif., removed stars, angels and other religious ornaments this week after an atheist man filed a complaint that he was offended by the Christmas tree decorations. Read more »

The First Amendment applies to government curtailment of freedom of speech. No one has the right to be heard on another person’s private turf, just as a homeowner has the right to scoop up and throw away dog poop left on his yard. Read more »

President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein (arguably one of the nuttiest of all the ultra-Left nuts Obama has installed in our government) wants to censor anyone who reveals the radical associations of Obama Administration officials. Read more »

The ban on Bible verse banners at a Georgia high school’s football games was upheld by the Catoosa County Board of Education Tuesday night. Board Chairman Don Dycus said the resolution they adopted earlier this month that the signs violated the First Amendment still stands. Read more »

The case of a former kindergarten student whose art project with Jesus was censored by his New York school will be heard in an appeals court Friday. Antonio Peck, the student, had drawn a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world,” for an art project that had to show understanding about the environment. Antonio meant to express his belief that God is the only way to save the environment, according to his legal representative Liberty Counsel. Read more »

A Christian legal firm filed suit Wednesday on behalf of two Christian men who were arrested for witnessing on the streets. Mark Frost and Jayson Gardner were charged last year under a N.H. law against “unreasonable or loud” noise. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund argue the men’s free speech rights were denied. Read more »

In the updated God-hating, anti-Christian secularist Amerika, can you see yourself in a couple of months gathering around to sing, “Oh unspecified holiday tree, oh unspecified holiday tree…” or do you plan to live dangerously and sing, “Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree…”? Read more »

Eighty-three churches from 30 states and the District of Columbia participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sept. 27. Pastors at those churches preached biblically-based sermons about the positions of electoral candidates and current government officials. Read more »