Roger Rollins “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” — U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” — Bible A principal in Long Island, New York, refused to recognize a Christian club, stating that “I don’t want this in my school.” The school district was eventually forced to recognize the club and adopt a policy affirming the rights of the club after the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on the club’s behalf. As school begins, those of us who are parents and grandparents need to know the rights our children have in school to express their religious faith. The Alliance Defending Freedom is one of a number of organizations that provide legal advice and assistance to us as we exercise our rights to express our faith and beliefs in the public sector. In my opinion most of our local schools are very supportive of our rights to live out our faith in public settings, including school. However, our children in school are being exposed to very worldly and secular teaching and […]
